Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 117
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The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its...
The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its autumn/winter 2019 collection is Grimes, the 31-year-old Canadian singer and environmental activist. The artist previously collaborated with McCartney in 2016, when she joined Madonna's daughter and Amanda Stenberg in a video to promote McCartney's Pop perfume.
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Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth...
Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth annual ESPN Sports Humanitarian Awards. Adidas won the first Sports Sustainability Leadership Award while UA won the Corporate Community Impact Award. The awards were handed out at The Novo, an indoor club located at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, ...
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Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the...
Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)'s leaderboard for 2018, at the fourth and fifth place, respectively. The BCI is the Geneva-based body that campaigns for increased production and consumption of “more sustainable cotton.” Fifteen companies featured on its 2018 leaderboard, a table ...
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Decathlon has announced plans to open a second brick-and-mortar store...
Decathlon has announced plans to open a second brick-and-mortar store in the San Francisco area. It will be located in the Potrero Center shopping mall, at the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street. The new 38,370-square-foot store, which is scheduled to open in November, will feature a large community ...
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Fratelli Campagnolo has announced the opening of its first CMP...
Fratelli Campagnolo has announced the opening of its first CMP stores outside Italy, after the inauguration in April of its 20th Italian store in Florence. The first one was inaugurated in a pedestrian area of Salzburg, Austria, a few weeks ago, followed by one in Chamonix, France, which replaced a ...
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Zalando improves, Asos does not
Zalando, a fashion-oriented retailer that is making a big push into the sports apparel and footwear market with its marketplace, reported a 20.1 percent increase in revenues to €1,597.3 million for the second quarter of this year. Including its marketplace, the gross merchandise volume (GMV) rose by 23.7 percent to ...
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Fanatics has signed a long-term partnership deal with the Union...
Fanatics has signed a long-term partnership deal with the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) that will see the company handle the merchandising and official fan shop for the events of Uefa's national teams. The deal is set to cover the Euro 2020 tournament, the Nations League Finals, the European ...
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Garmin has opened a new directly operated store at a...
Garmin has opened a new directly operated store at a shopping center in Madrid called Plaza Norte 2. It's the brand's second store in Spain, after the one it opened in Barcelona last September.
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StockX, the e-commerce platform focusing on the sneaker resale market,...
StockX, the e-commerce platform focusing on the sneaker resale market, is launching an Italian version of its app and website. StockX was founded in Detroit in 2016, and made its European debut in October 2018.
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Nike has re-opened its store in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood, at...
Nike has re-opened its store in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood, at 1 Chome-13-12 Jingumae, Shibuya City. The refurbished location features enhanced services, including a dedicated Nike Women's floor. Additionally, customers can now reserve and scan products and benefit from instant checkout, among other new services, all through Nike App at Retail, ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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Decathlon is planning to open shortly a mega-store of 5,100...
Decathlon is planning to open shortly a mega-store of 5,100 m² in the Olympia shopping center of Munich, the third one and the biggest in the German city
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In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time...
In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time in history more than half of total ad spending. According to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, web advertising will account for 52 percent of global ad spending, as compared to 44 percent in 2018 and a projected 47 percent in 2019. ...
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JD Sports is adding instalment payment options in the...
JD Sports is adding instalment payment options in the U.K. with Clearpay technology from Afterpay
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Nike and Adidas pull back products and ads
The use of social networks and artificial intelligence can be tricky at times. Adidas suffered an embarrassing problem on July 1 with a Twitter campaign launched to promote its new jersey for the English Arsenal football team. It was hijacked by several users who twisted their Twitter handles to send ...
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Silhouette launches its own sports eyewear line as Marcolin takes over its Adidas license
The Marcolin group announced a licensing agreement with the Adidas Group for the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of two lines of eyewear that will reach the market early next year. A spokesperson for the Italian company said that the agreement is global, but there is an apparent discrepancy about ...
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Adidas unveiled the new Adidas by Stella McCartney tennis collection...
Adidas unveiled the new Adidas by Stella McCartney tennis collection ahead of Wimbledon, the legendary tournament. This year's edition of the tournament started on July 1, and will finish on July 14. Alongside McCartney's signature design touches, the 17-piece collection uses innovative materials, such as a synthetic fiber made from ...
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Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football...
Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football team (DFB), of which it has been the sponsor for a long time. The DFB will be training for the 2020 European Football Championship (Uefa Euro 2020) at World of Sports, Adidas' headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Preceding the announcement was a ...
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Decathlon has opened its first store in Algeria. The French...
Decathlon has opened its first store in Algeria. The French sporting goods retailer was already present in the Maghreb region, with stores in Tunisia and Morocco. The new 1,850-square-meter shop, located in Algiers, at the Bab Ezzouar shopping center, was inaugurated on June 29.
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The associations of Swiss sports brands and retailers, Spaf and...
The associations of Swiss sports brands and retailers, Spaf and Asmas, are organizing a second “Sport Business Network Day” for June 9, 2020