Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 165
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One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space...
One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space of 40,000 square feet, has just opened in the Liverpool One shopping center, featuring an area especially dedicated to football fans
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Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public,...
Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public, will open next year its second women's store, covering 7,200 square feet in Manchester's Arndale Center
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Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the...
Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the spring, located on Boulevard Saint Germain, according to sportguide.com
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Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten...
Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten years, has re-opened a store of about 100 square meters in Snell, a famous sports store in Chamonix, using the New Zealand merino wool specialist's latest retail concept and displaying a full range of adventure, training and lifestyle products
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Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design...
Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design & Manufacturing, one of Forever 21's suppliers, in a trademark case claiming that Forever 21, a Los-Angeles based fast-fashion retailer, had violated trademark law by using Adidas' three-stripe mark. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. The lawsuit, ...
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Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian...
Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian Football Association for three years, starting with the 2018/19 season
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World Cup qualifiers favor Adidas and Nike
Adidas has taken an early lead in the World Cup, at least in terms of the number of teams to be outfitted by the German brand, after the last qualifications for the finals were played last week.With eleven teams to wear the Three stripes, Adidas is slightly ahead of Nike ...
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Alibaba breaks new records
Alibaba hit a new record with its Singles Day shopping festival on Nov. 11, generating sales of $25.3 billion, 40 percent above the score reached a year ago. The event is a much bigger replica of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions that are becoming common in the Western ...
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Zalando posts a loss as sales rocket, investments continue
Zalando recorded a net loss of €11.1 million for the third quarter, compared with net income of €5 million for the year-ago quarter. The adjusted operating profit (Ebit) before non-operating one-time effects fell to €400,000 from €19.5 million.The company had warned last month that it might post a loss in ...
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Decathlon has opened its first store in Tunisia and contracted...
Decathlon has opened its first store in Tunisia and contracted a local logistics provider, Tanger Med, to handle its shipments to the growing number of stores it has in Africa. Covering more than 1,500 square meters in the Tunis City shopping mall, the store is reportedly set to be followed ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) is apparently developing a new retail...
Sports Direct International (SDI) is apparently developing a new retail brand, selling almost anything from dental floss to screwdrivers and household gloves (progressively classified as men's products, while the women's section features underwear calendars along with chocolate ring dog chews and a teenage ninja turtles scooter). “The brands you love for ...
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As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers...
As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers can create their own sneakers through Zalando.de. This has been an option for several years on the Adidas brand's online store with Miadidas, which enables consumers to pick their own colors, materials and soles. That same option has become available ...
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Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this...
Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this year at the International Retail Property Market (Mapic) in Cannes earlier this month. Nike was named “Retailer of the Year.” Adidas' new flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue was crowned for “Best Store Design.” Rapha's “clubhouse” cycling stores were ...
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Snow + Rock has a new store in England's Bluewater...
Snow + Rock has a new store in England's Bluewater shopping center, the largest one in the U.K. with a retail floor area of 13,000 square feet
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Bogner has opened a new store in Prague, located in...
Bogner has opened a new store in Prague, located in the big, recently opened Chodov shopping center
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted as saying in Bild am Sonntag during the weekend that the company would have a problem if one of its partners was found guilty of breaking the law. The quote was placed in the context of the Adidas group's partnership ...
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Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award,...
Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor companies that have taken concrete steps to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains. Adidas leads a group of four winning companies which also includes C&A, Intel and The Co-Operative Group. ...
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Adidas outperforms in North America
The Adidas Group's expansion has been hampered by weakening retail trends in Europe and infrastructure bottlenecks in North America in the third quarter, leading to a sales increase at the lower end of its projection, but the company still delivered ample rises in sales and profits.The German group's turnover jumped ...
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Adidas appoints three European country managers
After the reshuffle implemented in the Adidas Group's European management structure nearly two months ago, the company has appointed three of its own staff as country managers in France, Iberia and Italy.Nicolas Favre has taken over at the start of this month as country manager in France. He joined the ...
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Dac Sport Import will handle the distribution in Switzerland of...
Dac Sport Import will handle the distribution in Switzerland of the brands previously represented by another distributor, Sport Concept, following a merger of the two companies. Founded in 1985, Sport Concept has been until recently the Swiss distributor of Hestra, Montura, Timbuk2 and other brands. It lost the distribution of ...
