Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 164
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Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas...
Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas brand in France. He takes over from Nicolas Favre, who became general manager for Adidas France last November. Bouchès took up the position at the beginning of this year and he joined a seven-strong management committee. The Frenchman became part ...
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Accell North America (ANA) has announced a new omni-channel strategy,...
Accell North America (ANA) has announced a new omni-channel strategy, designed to offer independent bicycle dealers (IBDs) various options in the fulfilment of online orders. The strategy is comprised of different levels of partnership. A first option enables an IBD to sign up as a preferred fulfiller, committing to zero ...
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Mons Royale has announced the opening of a new European...
Mons Royale has announced the opening of a new European office in Innsbruck, Austria, and the appointment of Holger Blomeier as its new European sales and marketing director. Mons Royale, which specializes in merino base layers and clothing, is based in Lake Wanaka, New Zealand, and the new European headquarters ...
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Michael Plank, the German recruitment specialist, has launched a new...
Michael Plank, the German recruitment specialist, has launched a new digital matchmaking platform, called Supreme Contacts, covering 15 European countries in combination with local experts in Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, Spain and Italy. Plank claims that this platform enables contacts for sales partnerships with more than 30,000 decision-makers in the sports ...
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Garmin has opened its first dedicated retail space in Europe,...
Garmin has opened its first dedicated retail space in Europe, in the center of Barcelona, to showcase the full range of sports and outdoor products it offers. The store consists of a sizeable shop-in-shop in the department store of El Corte Inglés in Portal de l'Angel, one of the busiest ...
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Macron will replace Adidas as the kit sponsor of Real...
Macron will replace Adidas as the kit sponsor of Real Sociedad, the Spanish football club based in San Sebastián, in the Basque region. The club competes in La Liga, Spain's top football league. Based in Bologna, Italy, Macron is currently the technical sponsor of several European teams, including Crystal Palace ...
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Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200...
Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200 million round of financing for Carbon that placed a $1.7 billion valuation on the company, higher than the $1.1 billion valuation of two other public supplier of 3D equipment and software, 3D Systems and Stratasys. Carbon's Digital Light Synthesis technology, ...
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Umbro will replace Adidas as the technical supplier of an...
Umbro will replace Adidas as the technical supplier of an Argentinian football team, Newell's Old Boys, for three years
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Adidas reorganizes its digital sports operations
Adidas appears to be tossing in the towel on wrist-based fitness devices, following similar moves by Nike and Under Armour. The company's North American office announced a few days ago that it is discontinuing its dedicated Digital Sports business unit, which has been marketing its branded GPS running watches, fitness ...
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Zalando expands its partnership program
Zalando has reportedly doubled the sales generated by its brand partnership programs in the last year, enabling brands to take advantage of Europe's leading online fashion retailing platform to sell extra products.The German company sells about 2,000 brands in 15 European countries, buying products and delivering them from its warehouses. ...
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Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of...
Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of products in the German market directly from its head office in France. By mutual agreement, Major will part ways with MTS Sportartikel Vertriebs as its German distributor, after 25 years of collaboration. Mark Holldorf, who worked for Tecnifibre at MTS, ...
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Amplifi Coalition, a partner of Active Brands from Norway, has...
Amplifi Coalition, a partner of Active Brands from Norway, has assumed the distribution of the Bula brand in Germany and Austria from the autumn/winter 2018/19 order season. As previously reported, Active Brands bought in 2016 the rights for the Bula brand all over Europe, including Russia. Amplifi Coalition is a ...
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DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the...
DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the Intu Metrocentre of Gateshead. The chain has more than 90 stores all over the U.K. It's part of the DW Fitness First Group, which also operates 120 gyms.
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SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that...
SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that it is in line to book a sales increase of 2 percent for the financial year ending next Feb. 28, after suffering a drop of 8.8 percent to €291 million in the previous year. The engine of the growth has ...
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Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital...
Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital of Norway, nearly two years after it was first reported that the American retailer would do so. The store is not significantly different from Foot Locker stores elsewhere in the world. It is located on the popular shopping street of ...
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JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install...
JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags in more than 200 stores all over Europe, in partnership with Agon Systems. A test conducted by tagging garments in the U.K., France and the Netherlands has apparently led to a reduction of up to ...
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CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of...
CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of JD stores was opened in Spain this year. After openings in the shopping center of La Cañada in Marbella and the shopping center of Mataró Park in Mataró earlier this month, the number of openings has reached 14, to form ...
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Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich...
Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich with the Forever Faster concept, which has already been adopted by six other European stores, from London, Berlin and Prague to Antwerp, Madrid and Herzogenaurach, the German town where Puma has its head office. The Munich store sells wide ranges ...
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The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to...
The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to enable customers to try on boots in a virtual Champions League game between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. For three days earlier this month, at the renovated Adidas flagship store in Paris, customers wearing VR goggles and sensors on their ...
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Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its...
Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its own flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue, located near 57th Street and covering 2,035 square feet
