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Decathlon is making new environmental pledges for 2026
Decathlon says it has spent the past two years working with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to bring its design, production and distribution into line with the Paris Agreement on the earth’s climate. It says that its carbon intensity (tCO2e per euro) has declined by 10 ...
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ArticleSome French employees strike over pay at Decathlon
The CFDT called on Decathlon’s employees to go on a national strike in France on Saturday, Oct. 16. The union, third largest by employee representation, is seeking to raise employee compensation in view of this year’s “record profits” at the French producer and retailer of sporting goods. According to a ...
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Hervis Team Run raises €100,000 for Austria’s Sports Aid
Hervis Sport, the Austrian sports retail chain, has raised a total of €100,000 for Österreichische Sportshilfe, an organization that helps breed international sports talents, with this year’s edition of its “Hervis Team Run.” Nine provincial teams and one celebrity team took part in the nationwide campaign, running for a total ...
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News briefsFoot Locker to launch new proprietary apparel line
Foot Locker is launching a new clothing line called LCKR by Foot Locker that ”merges sneaker and sports culture with the heritage of Foot Locker to bring a new iteration of casual wear to the market.” The launch is supported by U.S. rapper and activist Gunna, the first promotional protagonist ...
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Poshmark boosts its sneaker authentication process by buying Suede One
Poshmark, a California-based marketplace for second-hand fashion products, has acquired a virtual sneaker authentication platform called Suede One. The price of the takeover was not disclosed. Founded in 2020, the latter is said to achieve 99 percent accuracy in recognizing popular models such as those of Jordan and Yeezy by ...
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Canada Goose opens pop-up in Manchester
Canada Goose has opened a pop-up location on New Cathedral Street in the English city of Manchester. The pop-up is hosting an installation for the senses called “Live in the Open,” with a storytelling platform, to urge “the community to connect with the world around outside;” an exhibition of photographs, ...
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ArticleTwo new top managers for Intersport International
Christian Wille, a 43-year-old German citizen who holds a university degree in international finance, will take the place of Martin Künzi as chief financial officer of Intersport International Corp. (IIC) as of January 2022. He will join IIC’s executive management board at the same time as Mateja Jesenek, a 54-year-old ...
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Fabletics opens a first store outside the U.S.
Fabletics’ latest store is also, reports Fashion Network, its first one abroad. The U.S. brand has settled on Germany – one of the brand’s top markets, according to its managing director for Europe, Gerrit Müller – to begin its international expansion. The new store is located on the Kurfürstendamm, the ...
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Signa Sports United to launch AI-based virtual bike fitting engine
Signa Sports United (SSU), the German-based sports e-commerce platform that owns several websites for the sale of bicycles, has entered a strategic partnership with Motesque, a specialist startup for biomechanics, computer vision and AI, to launch what they claim will be the first biomechanical AI-based virtual bike fitting engine ...
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Stadium has launched its marketplace
Stadium, the leading Swedish sporting goods retailer, has launched a digital marketplace to give an opportunity to small and large companies to sell products to consumers, after holding discussions with some of suppliers over the past couple of years. The partners are in control of the pricing and deliver the ...
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Boohoo launches a marketplace for fashion and sports goods
The Boohoo Group, the British fast-fashion online retailer that bought the brand name and the e-commerce operations of the Debenhams department store chain in January, is using it now to launch what it claims will be the biggest national online marketplace for sporting goods as well as fashion, cosmetics and ...
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ArticleAsos’ CEO quits in connection with a profit warning
The chief executive of Asos, Nick Beighton, is departing the U.K.-based online fashion retailer in a shock move as the company issued a profit warning, citing supply chain issues and rising costs combined with a slowdown in its growth. Asos is facing “notable cost headwinds” from inbound freight fees, wage ...
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A new sportswear show for consumers in the U.K.
Independent Exhibitions (INDX) is founding a quarterly trade show for the U.K. devoted to both flavors of sportswear, athleisure and performance, in all varieties of sport. The first edition of Sports & Leisure, curated by the buying group Associated Independent Stores (AIS), is scheduled for Dec. 1-2 at the Cranmore ...
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After 40 years in operation, Spain’s BM Sportech has a new CEO
José Maria Barcos Martínez, 67, is yielding control of the company he founded 40 years ago, BM Sportech, which still is a major distributor of sporting goods in Spain. His successor as CEO is a 21-year veteran of the company, Alberto Mastral, who will be joining a new executive board ...
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Big push for JD and Sprinter in Iberia
The Iberian Sports Retail Group (ISRG), which is controlled by JD Sports Fashion, is contemplating a strong development of its physical store network, accompanying its push into e-commerce through its recent acquisition of Deporvillage and the local web stores of JD Sports and Sprinter. Sprinter, the more technical sporting goods ...
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The CEO of Sport 1 will run Norway's whole Sport Holding group
Ole-Henrik Skirstad, who has been the CEO of Norway’s Sport 1 Gruppen, has been named CEO of the whole Sport Holding group, following the merger last year of Sport 1 with the Norwegian branch of Intersport, which was owned by Gresvig. Now that the integration process has been completed, Lars ...
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ArticlePromising tennis sales in Europe for H1 2021
According to Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS), sales of tennis racquets and strings for the first half of this year rose in all eight of Europe’s major tennis markets: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. Year-on-year growth in volume (45.3%) outpaced growth in value (40.7%), with ...
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U.K. anti-trust authority probes JD and Leicester City over shirt sales
The U.K. Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation into suspected violations of competition law by the Leicester City Football Club and JD Sports Fashion over the sale of club-branded products in the U.K. The replica shirts of the club, which won England’s FA Cup in May, are ...
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Decathlon opens continental logistics hub in Barcelona
Decathlon has inaugurated a new distribution center in Barcelona, Spain, to service the European continent. The facility, which replaces a previous one in the area, covers some 95,987 square meters on 167,751 square meters of land. It is adjacent to the Port of Barcelona and ten minutes from the Barcelona ...
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News briefsBründl Sports opens new flagship store, carries Marcel Hirscher’s new ski and apparel brands
Bründl Sports opened a new, sustainable and attractive flagship store with a net sales area of 2,500 square meters (total size: 5,600 sqm) in the heart of the Austrian ski and mountain sports town of Kaprun on Oct. 1 after a construction period of only one and a half years, ...
