Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 160

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    Champion has opened its first store in the Netherlands. The...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Champion has opened its first store in the Netherlands. The 180-square-meter shop will be located in Amsterdam's city center, at Reestraat 9, in a shopping district filled with retailers, restaurants and bars. The store space is divided over a ground floor, a mezzanine and the basement. Up until now, the ...

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    Salming Sports is closing its concept store on Stockholm's main...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Salming Sports is closing its concept store on Stockholm's main shopping street, Kungsgatan, as one of several changes that the Swedish company plans to implement in the near future. The store first opened in 2015, but since then much has changed in the consumers' buying behavior. Today, Salming has its ...

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    Snipes, the retail chain forb sneakers and streetwear products owned...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Snipes, the retail chain forb sneakers and streetwear products owned by Deichmann, will open its first store in France in July. It will be located in the suburban Créteil Soleil shopping center near Paris and will be followed by another store in the Carré Sénart mall of Lieusaint at a ...

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    Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in the U.S. District Court in Portland over the alleged copying of the German brand's iconic Stan Smith shoe. A few days ago, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring Skechers from selling its Onix shoe, but it ...

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    Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years as sponsor of the Leicester City football club, which plays in England's Premier League. The duration of the new contract has not been specified. This comes after Leicester City finished ninth in the Premier League, ending the season with a ...

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    Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter and Instagram, according to an analysibs by Brandwatch. In April, Adidas' logo appeared in 6,664,170 unique images, which means in 154 new images every minute, or three new images every second, Brandwatch explains. Adidas is followed by Nike, whose logo ...

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    Amer Sports cuts back on footwear distribution

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Sales of outdoor shoes declined at the Amer Sports group in the first quarter, as the owner of the Salomon brand continued to clean up its distribution, in an effort to reduce promotional sales.Footwear sales were down by 9 percent to €141.1 million for the three months, which was a ...

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    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe at its Speedfactory in Atlanta. The shoe, whose name stands for Made for New York City, became available in the U.S. at retail on April 27. As previously reported, the company's American facility and its German Speedfactory in Ansbach are ...

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    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office last month, in the business district of Strasbourg-Archipel, across from the European Parliament. The office has been transferred there from Landersheim, a small village in the Alsace where Adidas France was built up by Horst Dassler from 1973, after a ...

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    The Oberalp Group has agreed to distribute the highly technical...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    The Oberalp Group has agreed to distribute the highly technical Swiss X-Bionic and X-Socks brands of X-Technology in the Italian market under a new five-year contract, starting on May 1 with orders for the spring/summer 2019 season. The two Swiss brands were previously distributed in Italy and some other markets ...

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    Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro, has signed a...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro, has signed a new master license agreement for Italy with NewAge, which has led to the creation of the Umbro Italy business unit. The launch of Umbro Italy's first collection is scheduled for autumn/winter 2018/19. NewAge is a manufacturer specializing in underwear, beachwear ...

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    Perry Ellis International has signed a license agreement for its...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Perry Ellis International has signed a license agreement for its Gotcha brand in North Africa with Kennek FZE, a Morocco-based sourcing and retail business specializing in surf and skate products. The deal allows Kennek to source and distribute a full range of products under the Gotcha label, from surf boards ...

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    Aldo Servadio replaces Stefan Heiniger as chief executive of Montana...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Aldo Servadio replaces Stefan Heiniger as chief executive of Montana Sport, the Swiss distribution company. Servadio has been working for the company for 25 years. He has held several positions, most recently as distribution and marketing manager for Asics and the company's lifestyle division. From this May, he will follow ...

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    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square meters in Karlsruhe a few days ago, Decathlon has started a program of seven openings in Germany, which should enable it to end the year with 57 stores around the country. The next openings include a store after the summer ...

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    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more than 1,600 square meters in the second half of this year at the department store of El Corte Inglés at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. A person familiar with the project told Efe, the Spanish news agency, that Nike ...

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    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble Arch in London, on a surface of about 1,300 square meters at street and basement level. The location at the western end of Oxford Street was previously occupied by a fast food outlet. The store is set to open across ...

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    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its online store at www.golfino.com. The main feature of the site is a new shopping system, based on a software called “Shopware,” which is said to significantly enhance the customer's shopping experience. According to the company's description, the revamped site features ...

  • Short stops

    JD Sports started expanding in Spain again last month with...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports started expanding in Spain again last month with three openings in Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca and Fuengirola, which raises the retail brand's Spanish store total to 43, as reported by CMD Sport

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    Karstadt Warenhaus has moved into the curated fashion shopping category...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Karstadt Warenhaus has moved into the curated fashion shopping category by taking over assets of Kisura, a start-up launched in Berlin in 2013, which filed for insolvency earlier this year

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    Adidas has developed a new yoga collection in cooperation with...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has developed a new yoga collection in cooperation with Wanderlust, using polyester made of recycled plastic from oceans. 80 percent of the waste that is in oceans and on coasts is plastic. As with some other Adidas products already launched, Parley for the Oceans, the environmental organization that addresses major ...