Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 110
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Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United...
Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United that will give the Chinese e-commerce giant exclusive rights to share club contents in China across the group's platforms
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Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental...
Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental store at CF Sherway Gardens, a mall near Toronto. Called “The Journey,” it has no products in its inventory, and it will treat customers to daily synthetic snowstorms. The store uses OLED TV displays, 4K laser applications, rock walls and ...
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Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD...
Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has expanded its e-tail page into an e-commerce marketplace, adding some 500 brands and 50,000 products to the catalog. Sprinter will now be hosting the sale of hoverboards and electric skates, for instance. Existing categories, such as cycling, ...
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Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech...
Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech Republic, a market that the e-tailer entered in the summer of 2018. Zalando Lounge, which has more than 25 million members in 14 European countries already, offers discounts of up to 75 percent on a selection of shoes, clothing and ...
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Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante,...
Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante, which has been redesigned in accordance with the brand's Le Club concept. The 350-square-meter store, on two floors, was inaugurated on Dec. 5. “Le Club” is the format that Lacoste launched internationally in 2017, to enable a customer's total immersion ...
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Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store...
Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store in a park next to the Big Fashion shopping center in the Karaburma district of Belgrade. Meanwhile, the world's largest sporting goods retailer has opened two more stores in Germany, in Heilbronn and Bremen, making a total of 80 stores ...
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Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at...
Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at 444 Jackson Street. It is the second retail flagship store and the first of the Japanese technical outdoor apparel brand outside of Japan. San Francisco's Jackson Square area is considered the city's design center. The store was inaugurated on Nov. ...
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Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs...
Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs Elysées, on the upper section of Paris' iconic avenue, according to reports in FashionNetwork.com. Moncler will take over a 1,500-square-meter space that was occupied by Nespresso from 2007 to October 2019. The date of the opening has not been unveiled. ...
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Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store,...
Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store, which was opened on Oct. 18, is located at 44, rue Etienne Marcel, in the fashionable Marais district. The Italian brand has five other stores in France, located in Annecy, Lille, Lyon, Megève and Chamonix. Colmar opened two new international ...
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On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall,...
On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall, on the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street in San Francisco. The new 38,370-square-foot store is the French retailer's third one in San Francisco's Bay Area and is highly digitalized, with a mobile checkout, endless-aisle kiosks, a robot to ...
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Sport 2000 Austria has redesigned its rental website. With better...
Sport 2000 Austria has redesigned its rental website. With better usability, mobile optimization and modern design, it is now easier for customers to rent winter equipment.
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Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in...
Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in London, its largest European store. The 4,714-square-foot flagship store, in a space previously occupied by Miss Selfridge, offers a wide selection of footwear, clothing and accessories for men, women and kids, as well as Vans' surf and pro-skate ranges. The ...
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Dielmann, a German retailer with 49 footwear and sporting goods...
Dielmann, a German retailer with 49 footwear and sporting goods stores operating under banners such as Schuhhaus Dielmann and Sporthaus Robert Hübner, has appointed a retail expert, Manuel Farrokh, as its new executive manager, responsible for project and risk management. In his new role, he will work closely with the ...
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JD Sports reached a total of 60 stores in Spain...
JD Sports reached a total of 60 stores in Spain when it opened two, in the cities of Alcoy and Mogán, on Nov. 23. The new stores carry footwear and urban sportswear from name brands, such Nike, Adidas, Vans and Fila, as well as its own brands, Supply & Demand ...
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Fred Perry has opened a 700-square-foot store in Lower Manhattan,...
Fred Perry has opened a 700-square-foot store in Lower Manhattan, working with the same architectural firm, BuckleyGrayYeoman, with which it has cooperated for stores in Stockholm, Seoul, Munich and Bangkok
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Adidas moves Speedfactory technology to Asia
By the end of this year, Adidas will be transferring the robotic Speedfactory technology that it has developed in cooperation with Oechsler to two of its Asian footwear suppliers to help increase the flexibility of the design and production process. With production times substantially cut there, Adidas says it will ...
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Adidas partners with the Space Station
Adidas has announced a multi-year partnership with the International Space Station (ISS), the space laboratory managed by the U.S. Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis). The partnership will explore breakthroughs to improve the future design and engineering of sporting products on and off Earth. For to station’s ...
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Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of...
Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of sneakers. The announcement has been made on Instagram with the three accounts – Prada, Adidas and Adidas Originals – posting the same photo at the same time, all using the hashtag #Pradaforadidas, followed by the comment “Coming Soon.” The collection ...
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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending...
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending their sponsorship deal through 2030. Adidas originally supplied the Spanish national team's jersey from 1981 to 1983. The present deal dates back to 1991. As recently as last June (see SGI Europe Vol. 30 N°19+20), Adidas was threatening to take ...
