Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 151
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Adidas has appointed a new chief information officer, Fumbi Chima,...
Adidas has appointed a new chief information officer, Fumbi Chima, replacing Michael Vögele who has left the company at his own request. Reporting to Harm Ohlmeyer, chief financial officer, she will take responsibility for the IT department from Jan. 1. A native of Nigeria, Fumbi comes from the Fox Network ...
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Fischer Sports has signed a distribution agreement with Vauthi Speed...
Fischer Sports has signed a distribution agreement with Vauthi Speed Oy, one of Finland's leading manufacturers of ski wax. Fischer will add Vauhti's products to its own portfolio and sell them in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Russia. The distribution via Fischer will start in the coming autumn. The two companies began ...
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Decathlon is expanding rapidly in Africa. It opened last month...
Decathlon is expanding rapidly in Africa. It opened last month its first store in Kenya, covering 1,500 square meters in the Hub Mall of Nairobi. An outdoor playground enables customers to try out new products and to discover new sports activities. The store will be supplied from a distribution center ...
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Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the...
Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the course of next year. The French sporting goods retail chain already has one store in the Bavarian capital. Decathlon aimed to open no less than 13 new stores in Germany before the end of the year, building on its current strong portfolio ...
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Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse,...
Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse, with a surface of 3,650 square meters on three floors. It's smaller than a store that the chain had in the city until 2013, but it has more modern features, similar to those that it introduced at a redesigned store ...
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Knud Hansen, chairman of the supervisory board at Intersport Deutschland, has closed his...
Knud Hansen, chairman of the supervisory board at Intersport Deutschland, has closed his Intersport store in Kiel. The decision was taken two or three months ago, as the frequency at the store was continuing to decline. Other stores in the center of Kiel have also closed in the course of this year. Intersport ...
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The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with...
The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with Intersport, will be going its own way on Sept. 1, 2019. Both companies are closely linked, and they have influenced the Austrian sports goods retail industry for the past five years together. The Bründl group currently manages 26 stores and 550 ...
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Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor...
Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor of the Dubai Mall. The 3,500-square-meter store in the capital of the United Arab Emirates has a small basketball court. It features a women's salon, NikePlus enhancements and customization facilities for shoes and apparel. The opening in Dubai follows last ...
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Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store...
Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store in Beijing, originally planned for Dec. 15, justifying the move with delays in construction. No new date was given. Observers felt that the suspension was linked to the arrest on Dec. 1 of Meng Wanzhou, the financial director of Huawei, ...
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Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has...
Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has opened its sixth Parisian store. It is located in 177 rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris' 1st district and not far from the Louvre museum. The store, designed by Dillon Garris, sells the women's, men's and children's collections of the brand, alongside ...
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Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased...
Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased its revenue from e-mail marketing by 28 percent by harvesting its existing customer data. According to the company, a recent test showed that its cost per click had been cut by 75 percent. Looking for ways to direct customers to ...
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UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched...
UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched its web store, addressing customers in 47 countries, with others due to follow soon. The brand, which stands for Unleash Your Nature, was launched last year by Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works also for Armani and ...
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Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium...
Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium
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Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in...
Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in the downtown area of Zurich
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Adidas has taken Rafinha to court in Amsterdam, according to...
Adidas has taken Rafinha to court in Amsterdam, according to The Mirror, demanding that the Barcelona midfielder should pay a penalty of €100,000 for each day that he doesn't wear Adidas shoes in the field and Adidas apparel at all media appearances. The 25-year-old Brazilian football player, whose real name ...
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Adidas is partnering with Foot Locker to launch the new...
Adidas is partnering with Foot Locker to launch the new Adidas Asterisk Collective, a platform empowering creative partners to propose initiatives that aim to positively impact communities all over the world. To celebrate the launch, the two companies tapped three musicians – Kid Cudi, Raury and H.E.R. – as well ...
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Adidas has entered into a “perpetual, legacy partnership” with Stan...
Adidas has entered into a “perpetual, legacy partnership” with Stan Smith, the two-time Grand Slam tennis champion whose career lasted from 1969 to 1985. Adidas first collaborated with Smith on a famous shoe style in 1973 and is now releasing an updated version, with leather upper, rubber cupsole and white ...
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Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019...
Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019 will only last three days. The Summer Market in June and the Winter Market in November will move from four days to three, while the Snow Show in January remains a three-day event. All three shows will take place at ...
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Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in...
Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in the main European countries, the Norwegian sporting goods industry association, Norsk Sportsbransjeforening, is sharing with us some additional figures that show the estimated share of online sales in the market. They indicate that internet sales of sporting goods were worth ...
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Sportiv, a new premium sports retailer in Russia
A group of Russian investors has officially opened the first store under the banner of a new sporting goods retail chain, called Sportiv, in Moscow. Until the end of 2018 new stores are slated to be opened in the biggest shopping centers of the Russian capital, according to the Arendator ...
