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Decathlon's sales fell by 10.7% in Spain in 2020
Decathlon’s sales in Spain fell last year by 10.7 percent to €1,526 million including VAT, due to Covid-related restrictions, but the online channel grew by 126 percent to represent 18 percent of the total turnover. The number of stores rose by two to a total of 174, but their sales ...
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Goat Group more than doubles in value
The sneaker market is red hot, particularly online. The Goat Group more than doubled its valuation to $3.7 billion in its latest round of financing from $1.8 billion in the previous one last September. The company said its marketplace had generated a gross merchandise value of $2 billion in the ...
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Austria’s Gigasport chain earns Sport 2000’s Profi seal
Gigasport, one of the bigger members of Sport 2000 Austria, is implementing the specialized “profi” concept of the buying group in all its 18 stores in the country. A seal of quality has been given by the buying group for all Gigasport stores in the areas of mountain, ski, bike ...
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Slinger Bag acquires Foundation Tennis
Slinger Bag, the growing developer of portable tennis ball launchers, has acquired Foundation Tennis, a U.S. company that develops software for the administration of racquet sports clubs, in exchange of shares. The software suite can handle operations, booking, payments and digital platform management (website design, hosting, and iOS and Android ...
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AI may lead Instagram users to Facebook Shops
Facebook said a few days ago that it plans to test an artificial intelligence tool in the coming months. Called “visual search,” it would allow Instagram users to click on the photo of a shared item and find similar products in its Facebook Shops application. The company, which already has ...
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USWE starts trading on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market
USWE Sports, a Swedish company that offers vests and jump-free backpacks and hydration packs for mountain biking, running, skiing and motorsports, will go public on June 24 on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. Earlier this month, the company had completed its offering to the general public in Sweden and ...
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News briefsUSWE relies on Polygiene technology for new running vests
USWE, a Swedish sports and outdoor brand that is in the process of going public, is launching a partnership with Polygiene, the Swedish ingredient brand, to offer running vests that fight odor and last longer. USWE specializes in bounce-free backpacks and hydration packs for mountain biking, running, skiing and motorsports. ...
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Foot Locker Europe partners with drop-shipping expert
Foot Locker Europe has signed a four-year deal with CommerceHub to help expand its product assortment and create a more efficient supply chain for its Foot Locker and Sidestep banners in 18 countries. It will do so through the drop-ship network of CommerceHub, a leading cloud-based e-commerce enablement platform with ...
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Anta partners with a university for research into sports fashion
Anta Sports has co-established the ”Tsinghua University-Anta Group Joint Research Center for Sports Fashion” with Tsinghua University, a major research university in Beijing. Anta will cooperate with the university over the next five years to explore innovative applications for new fabrics, new materials and new designs in the field of ...
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Skechers opens a flagship in Berlin
Skechers USA is building up its own network of mono-brand stores in Europe strongly. After setting up a flagship store in Munich last year, it is opening another flagship of 1,000 square meters in a very central area of Berlin. Located on the Tauentzienstrasse in front of the Kaiser-Wilhlem-Gedächtnis Church ...
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Oberalp names Marion Alexandre as head of Southern Europe
The Oberalp Group has appointed Marion Alexandre as general manager for Southern Europe, effective June 1st. Alexandre will be in charge of the territories of France, where she has taken over the role from Pierre-Jean Touchard, as well as Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Most recently, Alexandre served as global commercial ...
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Mizuno partners with the LPGA
Mizuno USA has unveiled a new partnership with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). The brand will have a presence at various professional and amateur events in 2021. It will also produce content for the LPGA’s Women’s Network. Across the LPGA’s digital and social networks, Mizuno will be the presenting ...
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A new secretary general for FIS
Michel Vion, a former French ski champion, was appointed on June 22 by the newly elected Council of the International Ski Federation (FIS) as its new secretary general. He has served since June 2010 as the president of the French Ski Federation, a post that he is now leaving along ...
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France’s Union Sport & Cycle has a new president
Union Sport & Cycle, the French sporting goods and cycling industry association, has appointed Pascale Gozzi as the new president of the organization for the next three years. She takes over the top role from Jérôme Valentin after serving as vice-president during the latter’s three-year mandate. Gozzi, 50, is a ...
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IOC unveils details of its Olympic Forest project
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the details of its project to plant an “Olympic Forest” in the African states of Mali and Senegal, part of the IOC’s climate-positive strategy. The project will involve planting about 355,000 native trees across around 90 villages in Mali and Senegal, covering a ...
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News briefsGoPro allows third-party developers to integrate Hero9 Black into their solutions
GoPro has just announced a new open Application Programming Interface (API) for third-party developers of apps, called Open GoPro, that will allow them to integrate its own action cameras, starting with the GoPro Hero9, into their solutions The API enables a range of functions via wireless interfaces. With Open GoPro, ...
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Anta joins the list of the most valuable apparel brands
Anta and Asos joined the list of the world’s ten most “valuable” apparel brands outside the luxury goods sector in the 2021 edition of Kantar’s annual BrandZ report, based on financial performance as well as market data and consumer surveys. As a whole, the category gained 53 percent in value ...
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Peloton launches a corporate wellness initiative in some countries
Businesses and organizations in certain countries will be able to offer subsidized access for their staff to Peloton’ connected fitness memberships and products through a new program, Peloton Corporate Wellness. Steered by a dedicated global general manager, Cassidy Rouse, the program is being offered for the moment to businesses and ...
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Zwift will be the presenting partner of the new women’s Tour de France
Zwift, the global virtual cycling and running training platform, has been named as the presenting partner of the new women’s edition of the Tour de France cycling race, organized by Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO). The inaugural edition of the women’s cycling event, which will be known as the Tour de ...
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Vans will donate up to $200,000 to Skateistan
To celebrate Go Skateboarding Day (June 21), Vans has set up a partnership with Skateistan, a non-profit organization that promotes skateboarding and education in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. On July 6, the company and the NGO will be launching a video campaign – titled Where It Starts and available ...
