Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 185
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Descente has opened its first brand store in China, located...
Descente has opened its first brand store in China, located in the Changchun Charter shipping center, through its joint venture with Anta Sports
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Zalando posted a 25 percent sales increase to €916.4 million...
Zalando posted a 25 percent sales increase to €916.4 million for the second quarter against the same period of 2015. Earnings before interest and taxation (Ebit) almost tripled to €80.9 million. The Berlin-based fashion e-tailer said the number of active customers grew to 18.8 million by the end of the ...
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Adidas raises its guidance
A few days before it was due to announce its quarterly performance on Aug. 4, the Adidas Group raised its guidance for the full year, on the back of a 13 percent sales increase to €4.4 billion in the three months to the end of June, and an operating profit ...
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Adidas opens up and gets faster
The Adidas Group wants to get more creative talent involved in its product development, to invest over-proportionally in key cities and to speed up its production, in order to get closer to consumers. The initiatives form the three pillars of Creating the New, the strategic five-year plan unveiled by Adidas ...
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Adidas expands head office to support ongoing growth
Adidas has recently laid the foundation stone for two new staff buildings at its headquarters in Herzogenaurach. “Campus Expansion South” is to include a new office building for more than 2,000 employees as well as an events building with a restaurant for the employees. The expansion will also involve the ...
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Confirming an article in Boardsports Source, Adidas says it is...
Confirming an article in Boardsports Source, Adidas says it is building up a dedicated action sports team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) under the Adidas Originals umbrella, servicing primarily the skate and snowboard community. The Western Europe unit has been run since last year by Bjorn Wiersma, ...
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Mizuno, which has its own sales subsidiary in Spain, has...
Mizuno, which has its own sales subsidiary in Spain, has decided to get its lifestyle footwear distributed by Gregal Sport in the country. Besides Lowa, Elan and Schöffel, Gregal Sport distributes more lifestyle-oriented brands such as Canada Goose and Peuterey in the fashion retail channel.
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Deckers Brands plans to change its distribution from an indirect...
Deckers Brands plans to change its distribution from an indirect to a direct mode in Switzerland in the course of the next 12 months. Previously, a local distributor covered the Swiss market, but it has been handled by a sales agent since June. Within the next 12 months, the company ...
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Maier Sports, the German snow sports and outdoor apparel brand...
Maier Sports, the German snow sports and outdoor apparel brand that has become the property of Schwan-Stabilo, the German group that owns Deuter and Ortovox, signed a distribution agreement with Hej International in June. The British distribution company, managed by Tomas Torstensson, will start selling Maier Sports' spring/summer 2017 collection. ...
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ExOfficio is starting to use Marmot Mountain's existing sales network...
ExOfficio is starting to use Marmot Mountain's existing sales network to sell its products to specialty sporting goods and outdoor retailers in Germany, Austria, the U.K., the Benelux, France, Switzerland and Italy from spring/summer 2017. ExOfficio was previously sold mainly to selected clients in those countries like Globetrotter and Larca ...
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Shimano has announced that its recently expanded bike distribution center...
Shimano has announced that its recently expanded bike distribution center in Poznan, Poland, will also be used to deliver fishing tackle products to Polish dealers next year. Bike components and fishing tackle distribution will be combined under one organization effective Feb. 1, 2017. Until then, Normark Polska will continue to ...
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Fermun Sport will distribute Jaked's swimwear in Spain
Fermun Sport will distribute Jaked's swimwear in Spain
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Las Bas will distribute Seafolly's beachwear in Italy
Las Bas will distribute Seafolly's beachwear in Italy
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Decathlon has started building a new logistics center in Dortmund,...
Decathlon has started building a new logistics center in Dortmund, which should cover about 32,000 square meters and employ up to 700 people. The group already has a warehouse of roughly the same size and 550 employees in Schwetzingen, near Mannheim, but the new facility is to cover stores in ...
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Fusalp has opened a store in Annecy, the French town...
Fusalp has opened a store in Annecy, the French town where the brand was born in 1952
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Fred Perry is opening its first store in Vietnam, located...
Fred Perry is opening its first store in Vietnam, located in the refurbished Saigon Center shopping mall
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Adidas has filed a new intellectual property lawsuit in the...
Adidas has filed a new intellectual property lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the state of Oregon against Skechers, claiming that the design of the latter's “Mega Flex” shoe infringes on its “Springblade” concept. Last February, Adidas won a preliminary injunction against Skechers in another Oregon court case over ...
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Adidas has announced that Benjamin Proud and Andrew Willis have...
Adidas has announced that Benjamin Proud and Andrew Willis have joined its team of swimmers, only a few weeks ahead of the Rio Olympics. The two British swimmers will wear the recently launched adizero XVI swimsuit. Proud, aged 19, won two gold and a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth ...
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Adidas has signed up a supermodel, Karlie Kloss, as the...
Adidas has signed up a supermodel, Karlie Kloss, as the ambassador for the next autumn/winter collection of its Adidas by Stella McCartney collection
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Zalando has posted preliminary figures showing that its revenues in...
Zalando has posted preliminary figures showing that its revenues in the second quarter grew by between 24.0 and 26.0 percent over the year-ago quarter to €909-€924 million. The online fashion retailer expects to report adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) of €68 to €88 million for the period - ...
