Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 113
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Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash...
Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash and Shun Hirose – to reimagine its Campus 80 sneaker as part of its MakerLab program, Adidas launched a limited edition of the products through an interesting and engaging auction, where the consumer rather than the brand set the price. ...
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Decathlon has received the approval of regional urban planning authorities...
Decathlon has received the approval of regional urban planning authorities to build its fourth store in Siberia, in a high-traffic site of its capital city, Novosibirsk. Occupying 4,300 square meters, it is set to open by Oct. 1, 2020, reportedly requiring an investment of around 45 million rubles (€630,000-$700,000). It ...
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Asics invests more in digital
Asics Corp. continues to make new investments in start-ups and adjacent segments. Late last month, the Japanese group acquired Race Roster, a Canadian-based platform with a suite of services for the organizers of foot races that will complement its Runkeeper platform, based in Boston, and other digital operations. The purchase ...
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Intersport Austria will open three new stores in Austria by...
Intersport Austria will open three new stores in Austria by the end of this year. They will be located in Graz, Salzburg-Bergheim and Linz. The existing Intersport stores in Ottensheim and Weiz will be renovated. Intersport is investing about €15 million in its retail network and creating about 160 new ...
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Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods...
Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods retailer will be opening an eighth store this month, having opened two others earlier this year. The new branch will have a sales floor of 1,400 square meters. With the Mydecathlon membership card, customers will receive a bonus of €10 ...
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Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery...
Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery with electric cars. The online retailer recently started a pilot project in Hamburg with 24 electric cars, which are operated on 100 percent green electricity. Zalando works with various logistics partners. Hamburg's urban area has 600 charging stations for electric ...
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Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct....
Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct. 31. It is located at the well-known Forum shopping center in the center of Helsinki and occupies 360 square meters. Blue Tomato opened a big store in Amsterdam in September. It has more than 45 physical stores operating in Austria, ...
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Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores...
Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores in Ottawa's RA Centre, a not-for-profit organization, and in Burlington, near Toronto, for its extensive collection of racquet-sports equipment, shoes and apparel. Before this retail expansion, Li-Ning's products were available only online and through a carefully selected network of specialty ...
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Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a...
Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a store of 220 square meters in the city of Bilbao. This is Dooers' third store to open this year, its sixth in Spain's Basque Country and its 16th in Spain overall. The store stocks the major brands. The decor consists ...
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Nike has extended its “Nike Live” store concept to Long...
Nike has extended its “Nike Live” store concept to Long Beach, California, and the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. The company opened an “experimental digital-meets-physical retail pilot,” called Nike by Melrose, in West Los Angeles in July of last year. To stock the store, Nike extrapolated from 18 months of consumer ...
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Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, expects...
Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, expects its sales for 2019 to increase by 70 percent from the previous year. It plans to reach total sales of more than €100 million by the end of 2020. This is the first time that Keller Sports has announced its ...
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Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in...
Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in Bengaluru that includes a customization studio for prints and embroidery. There are 360 Puma stores in 130 cities in India, in addition to an e-commerce platform and wholesale operations.
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UYN has opened a pop-up store inside SportScheck's Munich flagship...
UYN has opened a pop-up store inside SportScheck's Munich flagship
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Zalando improves results
For the first time in its history, Zalando received more than a billion visits to its web stores in a single quarter, or a total of 1,000.3 million, up by 37.3 percent year-on-year from 728,700. The share of mobile visits was 84.8 percent. The number of active customers reached 29.5 ...
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On Oct. 1, Signa acquired a 49.99 percent stake in...
On Oct. 1, Signa acquired a 49.99 percent stake in Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), thereby attaining a 100 percent stake in Galeria Kaufhof Karstadt. HBC remains the owner of the deficit-ridden Hudson's Bay stores in the Netherlands. In December 2018, Signa and HBC agreed to a joint venture to run ...
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Rossignol is opening a 100-square-meter store in New York's SoHo...
Rossignol is opening a 100-square-meter store in New York's SoHo district in December. The opening follows that of a new store in Innsbruck, Austria, in June. As reported by sportguide.com, the French brand is not planning to expand its retail presence much further unless in strategic locations. Rossignol also has ...
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11teamsports, the German multi-channel retailer, is expanding its network of...
11teamsports, the German multi-channel retailer, is expanding its network of stores. On Oct. 5, 11teamsports opened a store in Zurich, which is its second in Switzerland. Covering 300 square meters, the store offers a wide selection of football shirts, football shoes and equipment for team sports, as well as training ...
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After a redesign of its online store in May 2018,...
After a redesign of its online store in May 2018, Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has been named this year’s best online store for golf in Germany by the German institute for service quality. The main feature of Golfino’s site is a new shopping system, which runs on ...
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For the first time, Adidas is launching baseball cleats within...
For the first time, Adidas is launching baseball cleats within a videogame. The 8-Bit collection is making its debut through the Playstation game MLB: The Show. In addition, the German footwear and apparel company has hired AvatarLabs to create a Snapchat game called Baseball's Next Level, which features Adizero and ...
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Adidas has released a running shoe that is specially conceived...
Adidas has released a running shoe that is specially conceived for winter weather. The PulseBoost HD Winterised uses ballistic nylon uppers and traction technology to maintain dry feet and steady footing through wet winter conditions. The ballistic nylon upper is treated to protect feet from cold and moisture, while extra ...
