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Adidas stores to phase out plastic bags
The Adidas Group has inked a partnership with Parley for the Oceans, an initiative that is meant to preserve oceans through education and research as well as direct actions against plastic pollution in the oceans.It should lead to the creation of materials made out of ocean plastic waste, to be ...
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While selling Rockport, the Adidas Group is said to be...
While selling Rockport, the Adidas Group is said to be investing in Bucketfeet, a new and innovative American brand of canvas sneakers along with Gordon Segal, founder of Crate & Barrell, and others. Adidas, which is apparently making the investment through a fund called Hydra Ventures, declined to comment on ...
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The Adidas Group confirms reports that Tina Rolén, brand director...
The Adidas Group confirms reports that Tina Rolén, brand director at Adidas Nordic, is leaving the company. She joined Adidas in 2005 and has been in her latest job since 2012. Rolén was distinguished by Sportfack as Businesswoman of the Year in 2014 and she is the highest-ranking woman in the ...
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Footbalance has signed a distribution agreement with Hickory Brands for...
Footbalance has signed a distribution agreement with Hickory Brands for the U.S. market, effective April 2. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, the FootBalance store concept is based on providing comprehensive foot-analysis and individually molded insoles made directly on-site. Hickory Brands will represent FootBalance's in-store concepts for 100% custominsoles and sandals as ...
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Mammut Sports Group has a new distributor for Spain and...
Mammut Sports Group has a new distributor for Spain and Portugal, BM Sportech, replacing Benas Esqui y Montaña with immediate effect
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Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to...
Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to open 12 more Sports Direct concessions by August 2016, covering a total of 200,000 square feet, after encouraging tests since last summer at its stores in Bristol, Guildford, Harrow and Portsmouth. The management said there was no relation with the ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has...
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has come under scrutiny in a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches. “The Secrets of Sports Direct” alleged that some of the discounts carried by the retailer may be misleading, because the company was inflating the original price of the products on ...
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Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in...
Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in the St. James district of London in August as part of a new program to establish similar flagships in key cities around the world. There is already an Arc'teryx store in London's Covent Garden, which is operated by Snow + ...
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The first permanent European physical store of Timbuk2 has opened...
The first permanent European physical store of Timbuk2 has opened in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. It features an area for the customization of messenger bags, which will be made in San Francisco and delivered within 7 to 10 days.
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Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia...
Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia through a retail partner, using it as a pilot for other stores in Spain. There are already a dozen Kelme stores in Delhi, the capital of India. According to CMD, Kelme raised it sales last year by 30 percent to ...
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Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil,...
Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil, outside of Helsinki. The outlet store is located in the large Tammisto shopping center in Vantaa. It is also the location of one of Stadium's 26 regular stores in the country. The company has already had a successful roll-out of ...
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Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a...
Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a new concept store with a strong focus on bicycles and triathlon in the warmer months and cross-country skiing in the colder months, following the renovation of a former fairly anonymous shop. It is located in Barkarby's Ikea shopping center, next ...
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Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in...
Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in its store at Stockholm's Arlanda airport and at four other locations in the Swedish capital. Working with a Swedish company, Welcom, it has a developed an app that allows customers to select the products that they want to order with ...
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Net-a-Sporter, the activewear section of the Net-a-Porter web store launched...
Net-a-Sporter, the activewear section of the Net-a-Porter web store launched last July, is reportedly registering higher sales results than expected. The number of brands offered on the website has risen from 16 to 61. According to WWD, 60 percent of the offer consists of sports-inspired lifestyle products. They are relatively ...
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Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a...
Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a temporary shop-in-shop in Globetrotter's store in Frankfurt. The French brand will occupy 165 square meters in the store until Feb. 16, 2016. It will organize a slackline challenge and start a testing center in October. Meanwhile, Columbia opened a shop-in-shop ...
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Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding...
Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding a “Sole Factor” space where customers can customize their shoes with a variety of Vibram soles. It also features a new gallery displaying more than 150 pairs of shoes developed with Vibram soles since the original “Carrarmato” sole introduced by ...
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Teva is setting up a 16 m² pop-up shop in...
Teva is setting up a 16 m² pop-up shop in Citadium, the big urban sports fashion store in central Paris
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Adidas has teamed up with Spotify to create the first...
Adidas has teamed up with Spotify to create the first running app that matches a runner's speed. The new Adidas Go uses the smartphone's accelerometer to monitor the user's stride and then automatically plays tracks with matching beats per minute from Spotify's music library. The app also allows runners to ...
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The Adizero 99g was launched by Adidas last month as...
The Adizero 99g was launched by Adidas last month as the world's lightest football boot. The retail launch consisted of just 299 pairs of men's shoes in size 9, as part of the Limited Collection series of super-small drops. With about half the weight of standard football cleats and less ...
