Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 183
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Lenzing has reported a net profit of €94.6 million for...
Lenzing has reported a net profit of €94.6 million for the first half of 2016, which represents an increase of 83.9 percent over the same period of last year. The Austria-based maker of botanic cellulose fiber attributed this strong performance to the implementation of a new strategy focusing on environmentally-friendly ...
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Asics Corp. has opened the first directly managed Asics Tiger...
Asics Corp. has opened the first directly managed Asics Tiger store in the Shinsalbashi district of Osaka. The store sports a new logo for this brand, which the Japanese sports shoe company launched at the beginning of 2015 for a new collection of retro-athletic, sports-inspired lifestyle shoes that are not ...
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Puma is opening a new store on the famous Calle...
Puma is opening a new store on the famous Calle Fuencarral in Madrid
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Under Armour has slated new store openings in Philadelphia, Boston...
Under Armour has slated new store openings in Philadelphia, Boston and New York City's World Trade Center
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Fusalp is opening a second store in Paris, to be...
Fusalp is opening a second store in Paris, to be followed by others in Lyon, Chamonix and Zermatt
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Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in...
Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in connection with several footwear designs. In its complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Division) in late August, the sports giant alleges that Bally is offering for sale and selling footwear featuring two ...
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Adidas Golf has struck a multi-year apparel and footwear endorsement...
Adidas Golf has struck a multi-year apparel and footwear endorsement deal with Dustin Johnson. The brand has been working with Johnson for the last ten years. The extended deal comes as the hard-hitting player is enjoying an outstanding year, as 2016 PGA of America Player of the Year, 2016 US ...
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Herbert Hainer is leaving a transformed Adidas Group
Some of the most influential retailers, suppliers and other executives in the international sporting goods industry will be converging on a football pitch in Herzogenaurach next Friday to mark the departure of Herbert Hainer, the chief executive of the Adidas group for more than 15 years. The players will include ...
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Adidas has begun a search for a permanent replacement for...
Adidas has begun a search for a permanent replacement for Chris Grancio, who is leaving as the company's global head of basketball. He has been overseeing Adidas' NBA deal and relations with basketball players since May 2014. Rebecca Jury, vice president of product in Adidas' basketball division, is taking over ...
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Skechers USA has entered into a new joint venture agreement...
Skechers USA has entered into a new joint venture agreement for Israel with MGS Sport Trading, its current distributor for the region. The joint venture is called Skechers Footwear. Adi Moliov, the previous brand manager of MGS Sport Trading, has been named general manager of Skechers Footwear. MGS Sport Trading ...
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Casall, the Swedish fitness brand, is returning to the Dutch...
Casall, the Swedish fitness brand, is returning to the Dutch and Belgian markets through a distribution agreement that started earlier this year with the Flow Sports Group. This Dutch-based company sells its own equipment brand as well as Casall and Gaiam products. The Dutch customers include Topshelf, the chain of ...
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Isbjörn of Sweden has established a new company in Norway,...
Isbjörn of Sweden has established a new company in Norway, which is the company's second largest market. The current agent in Norway, Sport Agile, will continue to be responsible for the distribution of the brand's products until March 1, 2017. The brand is owned by Nordic Kids Wear. It offers ...
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Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in...
Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in Europe as a pop-up store in the Covent Garden district of London. It will stay open until the end of this year. Reportedly, MLB was going to hold a professional game in London before the end of 2017, but the ...
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The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened...
The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened its doors, covering 800 square meters on two floors at a strategically location near Oslo's City Hall. It displays the entire product range of the Norwegian company - both hardware and softgoods. The store is meant to portray Bergans as ...
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Adidas has added eight more basketball rookies to the growing...
Adidas has added eight more basketball rookies to the growing roster of athletes sponsored in the U.S.
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An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in...
An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in the new position of brand director, responsible for category management, design and marketing. He had been assisting Odlo in these areas and in communication since last year. After working for seven years at Adidas in Portland and Herzogenaurach, and two ...
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Founded in 1983 in Colorado, Bula is one of the...
Founded in 1983 in Colorado, Bula is one of the largest brands of sports hats and beanies in North America and is also big in Europe. In the Nordic countries, it has been working through the Norwegian-based Active Brands group as a distributor since 1989. Now, Active Brands has bought ...
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Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered...
Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered by retailers operating 400 Intersport stores in Germany, accounting for about 16-17 percent of all Intersport stores in Germany, as well as by members of Intersport Austria. From autumn 2016, Hickies will also be sold by Intersport in England and ...
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Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center...
Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center of Madrid to its main brand store, after a major renovation. The brand has 14 stores all over Spain. They will grow to 15 by the end of this year.
