Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 207

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    Adidas wants to speed up processes

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The “speed” component of the Adidas Group's new strategic plan is inspired by the business model that the group has adopted for Neo, the fast-fashion label developed by Adidas in the recent years, which reached sales of more than €850 million in 2014. While the entire company has already reduced ...

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    Luxottica plans to take over Oakley’s distribution

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Luxottica plans to integrate Oakley into its global wholesale structure before the end of this year, according to reports that have been largely confirmed by a manager of the group. We hear that the decision has been personally made by Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder and chairman of the group, following ...

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    Inditex continues to develop its sports apparel offerings, according to...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Inditex continues to develop its sports apparel offerings, according to CMD. The Zara chain is expanding its presence in the segment by adding a line of children's sports clothing, addressing “sporty girls.” Another chain of the group, Pull & Bear, is entering the segment with a line of relatively technical ...

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    Intersport has opened its largest store in France. Measuring 4,400...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Intersport has opened its largest store in France. Measuring 4,400 square meters, it is located at Plan de Campagne, north of Marseille. It is part of a plan to open a total of 25 stores in France in the course of this year.

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    Décathlon has reopened its first Spanish store, which it had...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has reopened its first Spanish store, which it had launched 23 years ago at Montigalá, near Badalona. The surface has been expanded slightly to 3,675 square meters. It features new spaces for fitness, cycling and mountain sports.

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    Décathlon has released the first results of its test phase...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has released the first results of its test phase with Packcity, an automated in-store locker that allows customers to collect the items they have previously bought on-line. Nine stores were equipped with the automated locker solution before Christmas, to test the solution during a particularly busy time of year. ...

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    Décathlon has opened a new store concept at the train...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has opened a new store concept at the train station of Lille Flandres, near the retail giant's head office in northern France. Décathlon Mobility focuses on urban transport, selling mostly bicycles, scooters, luggage, footwear, accessories and a range of seasonal products. The store also provides a click and collect ...

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    Trocathlon, a bi-annual event that allows French consumers to sell...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Trocathlon, a bi-annual event that allows French consumers to sell old sports products to other customers at Décathlon stores, has turned into a permanent market. The French sports retailer has set up an online platform at trocathlon.fr this month that will enable consumers to do the same all year around. ...

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    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong at the end of this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and ...

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    Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store in Austria. It is located in Innsbruck and managed by Schöffel's Austrian subsidiary, which is based in the city. With this opening, the two brands have now a total of 23 common stores in Germany, Austria and Italy.

  • Short stops

    Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando, tells a German newspaper...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando, tells a German newspaper that he would like to see his company being able to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after the order

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    Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Terni...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Terni

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    Adidas will be working with one more advertising agency, 72andSunny,...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Adidas will be working with one more advertising agency, 72andSunny, in the important football, running, basketball and women's categories. It will keep working with Carat/Aegis and Johannes Leonardo, the latter remaining the main creative agency for Adidas Originals. With offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 72andSunny counts clients such as ...

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    Zalando is shifting to a softer marketing strategy after blasting...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Zalando is shifting to a softer marketing strategy after blasting the market with its previous commercial spots, where its customers were screaming for joy when they received their orders. Its new 27-second spot alerts customers to get ready for the season's trends, featuring fashion models wearing a variety of styles ...

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    Adidas Group boasts robust underlying performance

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group is eagerly turning the page on a year of ups and downs, when ample gains for the Adidas brand were marred by shrinking sales in its golf business and the weakness of the Russian ruble. A few weeks ago the group had already revealed headline figures for ...

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    Zalando moves into the black for the year

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zalando made an annual operating profit at group level for the first time last year, and not only in Germany where it had already become profitable before.According to preliminary figures, the big German-based e-tailer booked an adjusted operating margin (Ebit) of 3.7 percent of sales, before extraordinary items, versus a ...

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    SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters in Mönchengladbach on March 26, but it will shut down its store in Essen early next year, pulling away from the Ruhr area. With its 5,500 square meters, the store in Essen was just too big. The company hopes that ...

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    Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open its first store in Germany this month, in the Glacis-Galerie in Neu-Ulm, according to a report filed by the Deichmann group, the big German shoe retailer that owns Dosenbach-Ochsner in Switzerland. Oddly, the opening in that shopping gallery has already ...

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    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong later this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and other Asia-Pacific countries ...

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    Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid and Barcelona before the end of 2017, according to Modaes.es. The Spanish website reports that Under Armour's sales grew last year by 63 percent to €10 million in Spain, where the brand ...