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    Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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,...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    Adidas' partnership with Bayern Munich FC, which was due to...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Adidas' partnership with Bayern Munich FC, which was due to expire in 2020, has already been extended for another ten years until 2030. The Wall Street Journal estimates that the deal with the new German Bundesliga winners is worth about €900 million, which reportedly compares with €25 million per season ...

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    Adidas wants to run faster in two-horse race against Nike

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    While unveiling its latest five-year strategic plan at an investor day three weeks ago, the Adidas Group implicitly admitted that it could not catch up with its bigger American rival in the next few years – but the plan and the new management that will implement it could infuse ...

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    Duo takes the lead at Adidas Group

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    The investor day held in Herzogenaurach three weeks ago enabled the company to push forward two new executive board members. Herbert Hainer, the Adidas Group's chief executive, who has been under some pressure since the company's profit warning last year, made it clear a few weeks ago that he will ...

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    Alibaba and three other Chinese companies are reported to be...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba and three other Chinese companies are reported to be interested in the takeover of AC Milan. The famous Italian football club is also said to be the target of a crowdfunding initiative in China intended to raise at least $1 billion for its acquisition by the general public and ...

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    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, is to launch a range of apparel under the Tony Hawk brand online and its own stores around Europe later this year, under a licensing agreement with Cherokee Global Brands, the owner of the label. The range is named ...

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    Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression garments in Germany and Austria, starting this month. The Swiss-Australian brand was previously handling these territories directly, but apparently with a concentration on the southern part of Germany. Thomas Hieble, European export manager of Skins, will continue to coordinate distributors ...

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    Tifosi Optics, the American producer of sports eyewear, has hired...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Tifosi Optics, the American producer of sports eyewear, has hired a Dutch company, Kruitbosch, to be its exclusive distributor for the Benelux countries, Kruitbosch has been a major supplier and distributor of bicycles, parts and accessories to bike specialty shops in the Benelux countries. Specializing in cycling, running and other ...

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    Sweaty Betty, the British brand of activewear, has opened its...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Sweaty Betty, the British brand of activewear, has opened its first U.S. concession at the Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan. The British brand moved into the U.S. market in 2012 when it opened stores in the Soho district of New York City and in Greenwich, Connecticut. A third standalone store ...

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    Lyle & Scott has introduced Iconeme's beacon technology to the...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Lyle & Scott has introduced Iconeme's beacon technology to the mannequins in its flagship store on Carnaby Street in London. Customers download the Iconeme app on their mobile and once they have turned on Bluetooth, their smartphone can trigger beacons from a distance of up to 30 meters to receive ...

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    Under Armour has opened a Brand House in Chicago, its...

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Under Armour has opened a Brand House in Chicago, its fourth store in the U.S. and the first to offer the UA Hunt and UA Fish product ranges, as well as a wearable technologies bar based on the UA Connected Fitness platform