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Adidas and Sportmaster join forces on the Russian market
Confirming our previous report on the subject, Adidas and the biggest Russian sports retailer announced that they had signed a new partnership agreement in a joint statement on July 23. For many years, Adidas had refused to sell it products to Sportmaster, focusing instead on its own large network of ...
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Zalando is pushing Connected Retail
Zalando made a big pitch for its marketplace at the Ispo Digitize Summit in Munich last month, pointing out that it can help suppliers and retailers of sports and fashion products in many ways. As previously reported, it wants it to contribute to 40 percent of its gross merchandising value ...
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The former chief executive officer of the Adidas Group, Herbert...
The former chief executive officer of the Adidas Group, Herbert Hainer, will replace Uli Hoeness as chairman of the supervisory board of the FC Bayern Munich, the company controlling the homonymous football club, according to the business monthly Manager Magazin. Hainer, a passionate supporter of the team, in which Adidas ...
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The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has extended the...
The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has extended the contracts of Karen Parker, the executive board member responsible for human relations, and Harm Ohlmeyer, chief financial officer, for five years to 2025
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SportScheck is going for new partnerships in different ways, based...
SportScheck is going for new partnerships in different ways, based on a declared mission to bring together sports-minded people, particularly online. After its acquisition of Fitfox, the fitness community platform, the big German sports retailer has partnered with Fanatics to be its exclusive supplier of licensed products in its domestic ...
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The Giorgio Armani group recently launched its EA7 Emporio Armani brand...
The Giorgio Armani group recently launched its EA7 Emporio Armani brand in Russia. The Italian-based company recently opened its first EA7 store in Moscow's Mega Teply Stan shopping center, which belongs to the Russian-based Ingka group, a successor company of the Ikea group. The Ingka group has 14 shopping centers in ...
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Tecnifibre has taken over the distribution of its products in...
Tecnifibre has taken over the distribution of its products in Austria from Connective Sport
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Decathlon is certainly going strong in Germany, where the number...
Decathlon is certainly going strong in Germany, where the number of its stores had reached a total of 70 prior to the opening of its third and biggest one in Munich on Aug. 8, the sixth one to have been opened in the country since the beginning of this year. ...
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Arc'teryx has opened a new store in Sapporo, the capital...
Arc'teryx has opened a new store in Sapporo, the capital of Japan's Hokkaido prefecture. The 425-square-meter floor surface of the store makes it the brand's largest in Japan.
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Salomon will open its first German store in Munich in...
Salomon will open its first German store in Munich in November, not far from the local mono-brand store of The North Face
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Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute...
Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute over footwear stripes. A filing by Skechers on July 29 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked for the dismissal without prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Adidas, which had claimed that Skechers' Goldie-Peaks shoe infringed its Three Stripes ...
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Adidas is reportedly considering putting a deposit on sports shoes...
Adidas is reportedly considering putting a deposit on sports shoes – as in Germany's “Pfandsystem” (Pfand means “deposit”) – similar to what is often done with plastic and glass bottles. According to reports in sportstextiles.com, the brand is exploring charging a returnable deposit of €10 on a pair of shoes ...
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Zalando improves, Asos does not
Zalando, a fashion-oriented retailer that is making a big push into the sports apparel and footwear market with its marketplace, reported a 20.1 percent increase in revenues to €1,597.3 million for the second quarter of this year. Including its marketplace, the gross merchandise volume (GMV) rose by 23.7 percent to ...
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Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who...
Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who is now 60 years old, has been made chief executive of Taco Bell, one of the American fast-food chains owned by Yum! Brands
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Munich, the Barcelona-based footwear brand, has settled on a single...
Munich, the Barcelona-based footwear brand, has settled on a single distributor in Portugal for both its fashion and the sports collections. Bedivar, as the company is called, has its headquarters and an extensive logistical network in the country, distributing important brands like Crocs, Fila, Merrell and New Era, in addition ...
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Martini, the Austrian-based sportswear brand, has signed distribution agreements for...
Martini, the Austrian-based sportswear brand, has signed distribution agreements for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From the autumn/winter 2020/21 season, Martini will be distributed by Galfy in Slovakia and by Freelife in the Czech Republic. The family-owned company develops apparel for running, hiking, climbing, biking and cross-country and alpine skiing ...
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Compressport has signed a distribution agreement for Italy with Artcrafts...
Compressport has signed a distribution agreement for Italy with Artcrafts International, based in Florence. Artcrafts, founded in 1958 by Carla and Maurizio Ponziani, and run by Simone Ponziani, is the exclusive distributor for Italy of Teva, Crocs and Toms, as well as the exclusive distributor worldwide of Mou. It also ...
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Pierre Cote is stepping down as general manager of Tecnica...
Pierre Cote is stepping down as general manager of Tecnica Group Canada after 26 years with the company. Antonio Dus, chief executive of Tecnica Group SpA, the parent of Tecnica Group Canada, has decided that the time is therefore right to restructure the Canadian leadership. The overall group has already ...
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Chris Sports has appointed a new manager in charge of...
Chris Sports has appointed a new manager in charge of trade marketing and sales support for three of the brands it distributes in Switzerland: Bell, Giro and Evoc. He will take care of clinics, events and other forms of support for the retail clients. He has worked most recently for ...
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Decathlon has announced plans to open a second brick-and-mortar store...
Decathlon has announced plans to open a second brick-and-mortar store in the San Francisco area. It will be located in the Potrero Center shopping mall, at the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street. The new 38,370-square-foot store, which is scheduled to open in November, will feature a large community ...
