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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 ...

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    Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in a building due to be demolished, with two levels of retail topped by a rooftop basketball court

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    Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's store on King's Road, in the Chelsea district of London, by May. A Nike spokesman would not comment on the report. The Swoosh already opened two women's stand-alone stores late last year, one in Newport Beach, California, and the other ...

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    Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group,...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group, plans to open its first women-only store on Feb. 28. Called CLa Boutique and located at 110, rue de Rennes in Paris, it will the biggest store in France for women's sneakers and sports shoes, offering 300 different models, says ...

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    Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the acquisition of 18 of the 136 French Bata stores that have been auctioned by a French court following the insolvency of Bata France. The court accepted the offer made by François Le Ménahèze, who acted as chief executive of Bata ...

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    Asics started sales of its products in India from the...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Asics started sales of its products in India from the beginning of this year, through a subsidiary it opened in April 2012 to provide marketing support to its distributor, the Reliance Retail, which sold Asics through its Footprint stores and at wholesale. Rajat Khurana, director of Asics India, told Indian ...

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    Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running gear, has revamped its German website entirely. A new feature is the company's corporate online store. In an effort to appease its retail customers, Erima said that the existing team sports retailers remain the most important distribution channel, but the ...

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    Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to open a pop-up store in the French ski resort town of Val d'Isère. The company, founded only four years ago, managed to find a small retail space in a popular location, right on the town square. It will open for ...

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    Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in the Netherlands and that distribution of the Regatta and Dare2B brands is to be handled from the start of May by Corvus Sports. This is a new agency formed by Erik Kray, who has been the Dutch country manager for ...

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    Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor for the Polish market, Portal Gorski, which also distributes the British brands Rab and Kozi Kidz, the marketer of specialty outdoor and snow apparel for children. Wigwam has been distributed in Europe, since last year, by Hej International, a U.K.-based ...

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    Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French resort of Chamonix on Feb. 27. It will be deployed in the course of this year at shop-in-shops all over Europe, notably at Alpisport in Namur, Belgium; at El Corte Inglés in Barcelona; at Alpi Trail in Puidoux, Switzerland; and ...

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    JD Sports Fashion plans to open a Size? store in...

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports Fashion plans to open a Size? store in Cologne, Germany a few weeks from now