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Amazon’s sales growth is slowing down
Amazon posted net sales of $113.1 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, representing a 27 percent increase as compared to the prior-year quarter - a significant slowdown from the second quarter of 2020, when sales jumped by 40 percent. Excluding a $2.5 billion favorable impact from changes in ...
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Twitter tests an e-commerce feature for brands
Twitter has announced that it is beginning to allow businesses to add a shopping section at the top of their profile page. The “Shop Module” pilot has started with a dozen brands in the U.S. By tapping a product, the consumer reaches a listing with the option of making a ...
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News briefsAquafil launches consumer e-shop for Econyl products
Aquafil is reaching out to consumers: the Italian yarn supplier has just launched an Econyl e-shop platform, where – for the first time – customers can buy a range of sports, lifestyle and fashion products made from the company’s regenerated nylon Econyl directly in one place. According to Aquafil, the ...
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Blenders Eyewear expands e-commerce to U.K. and Ireland
Blenders Eyewear, a fast-growing Californian lifestyle, surf and ski sunglasses brand in which Italy’s Safilo Group acquired a 70-percent stake in 2019, takes a further step in its growth and development projects to fuel international expansion outside the U.S. Following the go-live of the brand’s e-commerce platform in Canada and ...
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News briefsSmartwool appoints new sales and e-commerce executives
Jennifer McLaren, CEO of Denver-based merino specialist Smartwool, has named two new executives for the brand’s sales and e-commerce departments. Corey Stecker, previously international general manager of sales and marketing, was promoted to global head of sales. He has been with Smartwool since 2016. In his new role, he assumes ...
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Consolidation in French sports e-tailing
Sport-guide.com reports that Lefreto, a French e-tailer that already owns three other sports-related transactional websites, has taken over Glisse-Proshop, a French multi-channel retailer that specializes in products for all kinds of boardsports, including surfing and snowboarding. Glisse-Proshop is more surf-oriented than Glisshop, another French e-tailer owned by Lefreto that covers ...
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News briefsArc’teryx opens new NY location, rebranding its Icon Stores as Arc’type
Located across from Central Park in the Upper West Side of New York, Arc’teryx Equipment has just opened a newly rebranded micro-store concept called Arc’type, centered around the brand’ s most renowned designs. It features a curated selection of just 22 items, ”specifically selected to help introduce guests to Arc’teryx ...
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Peloton opens a store in Leipzig
Peloton Interactive continues to expand its presence at retail in Germany, one of the few foreign markets currently under its radar. It has opened its eighth German store in the city center of Leipzig, replacing a former pop-up area in the local department store of Breuninger. Located in the Specks ...
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Decathlon launches its marketplace in the U.K.
Decathlon UK has reportedly launched its own marketplace, offering domestic brands such as Donda Cycling and Pendle Bike Racks as well as items by international brands such as Adidas and Speedo. As previously reported, Decathlon is rolling out its marketplace in various European countries. It launched its first marketplace in ...
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ArticleJD Sports Fashion on track to acquire Deporvillage
Deporvillage has found a buyer. As we reported in January, the owners of this international sports e-tailer based in Catalonia had engaged a financial advisor with a view toward selling a majority stake. JD Sports Fashion has since stepped in through its controlled holding company in Spain, the Iberian Sports ...
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Infographics & DataAmazon the major channel for german sporting goods consumers
Amazon is the major purchasing channel for german sporting goods consumers. This is an extract of the research study ”The sports brands winning the online race in Germany” in which we analysed 60 leading sports brands in Germany and conducted a survey with 3.000 consumers in Germany.
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Infographics & DataBest-performing sports brands in the German online market
This is an extract of the research study The sports brands winning the online race in Germany in which we analysed 60 leading sports brands in Germany.
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A vertical in Vancouver buys Reigning Champ in the same town
Aritzia, a vertically integrated designer and retailer of everyday women’s luxury clothing, has agreed to acquire Reigning Champ, a designer and manufacturer of premium athletic wear for men and women. Like Arc’teryx or a much larger vertical sports apparel company, Lululemon Athletica, both companies operate out of Vancouver. Founded in ...
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Case StudySSU will take over Wiggle and go public as the world’s leading sports e-tailer
Signa Sports United (SSU), the big international sports e-tailer based in Berlin, has entered into a business combination agreement with Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation, a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) based in Los Angeles, to finance the acquisition of Wiggle Chain Reaction Cycle, alias Wiggle CRC, a big U.K.-based bike ...
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ArticleBike and sports e-tailer Bike24 plans to go public in 2021
In September 2019, The Riverside Company bought back German e-commerce retailer for cycling, outdoor, fitness and swimming products, Bike24 GmbH, from a big British cycling e-commerce operator, Wiggle CRC. The private equity company had sold the continental European cycling online platform to the British industry giant in 2017, but that ...
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News briefsPinterest brings shopping functions to France, Germany, Canada and Australia
The Pinterest photo app wants to become more of a shopping platform internationally. After the U.S. and U.K., the company’s shopping functions will now also be available in Australia, Canada, France and Germany later this year. Users will thus have the opportunity to buy products directly via pins, pinboards and ...
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Deporvillage to get a new HQ
Deporvillage plans to move its headquarters to new buildings in the Catalonian municipality of Sant Fruitós de Bages sometime late this year. There the staff, which recently came to exceed 100, will occupy 2,500 square meters of space. The Spanish e-tailer last expanded its office space in 2017, and has ...
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Sport Zone will host an online marketplace
Over the coming months, the Iberian Sports Retail Group of JD Sports Fashion will be setting up a marketplace for Sport Zone, under whose banner more than a hundred physical stores are operating in Portugal and the Canary Islands. The group hopes to replicate the success of its Sprinter marketplace, ...
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Infographics & DataThe largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q1 2021 Update
This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q1 2021, with % changes vs June-August 2020. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Afterplay establishes e-tail platform for installment payments
The payment processor Afterpay is launching an online platform, called Dropshop by Afterpay, that offers interest-free installment payment plans for exclusive or early access to certain products. For instance, working in partnership with The Finish Line, the U.S. sporting goods retailer recently acquired by JD Sports Fashion, the platform will ...
