Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 187
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Go Sport has launched an updated version of its e-commerce...
Go Sport has launched an updated version of its e-commerce website go-sport.com. The site has been fully redesigned and navigation has been improved for tablets and other mobile devices. In France e-commerce sales from mobile devices increased by 39 percent in 2015. The new version of the go-sport.com site features ...
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Soloporteros, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain with 12 stores,...
Soloporteros, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain with 12 stores, changes its name to Fútbol Emotion. Soloporteros (in English: only for goalkeepers) previously concentrated on offering products for a distinctive group of customers. Today, the Spanish chain offers products for all kinds of football players and other people active in ...
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Intersport U.K. is preparing to launch a new online store...
Intersport U.K. is preparing to launch a new online store to support the physical stores affiliated with the buying group across the country. The new Intersport.co.uk website is chiefly meant to raise brand awareness and to showcase sports performance products. The search function will allow visitors to check out the ...
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced a new partnership...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced a new partnership with the Al Mana Fashion Group for the opening of the first two NBA Stores in the Middle East. The shops are set to open in Doha, Qatar, during the 2016-17 NBA season. Additional NBA Stores will open in Saudi ...
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Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...
Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...
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Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store...
Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store in a Spanish airport. Called Base Bazar Sport, it takes up 300 square meters of space in the airport of Grand Canaria, one of the Canary Islands.
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Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store...
Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store in London's Carnaby Street and to move it to another unspecified location. The British company also has two outlet stores in the U.K., in addition to its web shop.
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Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000...
Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000 square meters on Piazza Pattari in downtown Milan
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About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes...
About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes were seized by customs at the port of Hamburg. The unbranded shoes came from China and were intended for sale online. Although they were unbranded, they violated trademark law as the design was found to be the same of that ...
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Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit...
Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit products are often of a better quality and are cheaper than the genuine articles, complicating the effort to fight counterfeiting on the country's largest e-commerce websites. The declarations, reported by Bloomberg and other media outlets, were made by the tycoon ...
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Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected...
Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected top picks in the upcoming NBA draft: Brandon Ingram, Jaylen Brown, Jamal Murray, Dragan Bender and Kris Dunn. The German brand says they will help it to develop the world's best basketball gear. They will be featured in brand campaigns, ...
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Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with...
Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with its initial ads for the promotion of Colombia's jerseys for Copa America. They spelled the country's name as Columbia. The Big a promptly apologized and reissued the ad with the correct spelling.
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We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage...
We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage in mulesing of sheep to reduce wrinkles in their skin. The big European e-commerce operator is also banning real fur and the use of feathers from live animals or from foie gras geese.
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Nike expands its European distribution center
Nike has unveiled the latest expansion of its European Logistics Campus in Belgium, which is intended to make Nike's European operations more efficient and more sustainable. The expansion is also expected to enable growth by serving consumers and partners in 38 countries across the world from a single inventory location.According ...
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Adidas to divest Mitchell & Ness
Adidas has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Mitchell & Ness business to a newly-formed company owned by Juggernaut Capital Partners. Adidas said the sale of the Philadelphia-based apparel brand will allow the group to focus more aggressively on its core brands. Mitchell & Ness is best known ...
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The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast...
The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast footwear production in Ansbach, Germany, is ready to start commercial production in 2017. The Speed Factory is to operate mostly with robots. The project was unveiled last year as part of the group's “Creating the new” strategy, which has speed ...
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Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened...
Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened – a flagship outlet at the bottom of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The store adopted the Home Court concept that was already implemented in Beijing, Madrid, Berlin and London, with features such as the Shoe Base, an interactive bar with ...
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Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four...
Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four new directors who represent some of its more specialized sports stores. Martin Schwarz of Heymann & Schwarz in Wuppertal will represent the owners of 129 stores that specialize in team sports, although many of them also cater to other categories. ...
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21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical...
21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical stores, reports that it has obtained financing in the double-digit million euro range to reinforce its business in Germany and to expand in international markets. Specializing in running, cycling, triathlon, outdoor and action sports products, 21sportsgroup is the company behind ...
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Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has...
Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has pounced on two top locations that became available earlier this year after the bankruptcy of Vroom & Dreesman (V&D), a major Dutch department store chain. Several Dutch newspapers report that Topshelf has taken over the leases of former V&D stores ...
