Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 121
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Intersport reports that it has completed about three million transactions,...
Intersport reports that it has completed about three million transactions, with a total value of €20 million, since the introduction of its digital voucher system in Germany in 2016. The uniform digital voucher system was introduced together with Epay, a full-service provider for vouchers and prepaid solutions as well as ...
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Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled...
Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled “The Deal,” for its FW19 football boot pack. In the video, Paul Pogba, Leo Messi, Mesut Ozil and 18 other players speak in close-up directly into the camera and lay out the terms of the deal – the way in which ...
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Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who...
Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who is now 60 years old, has been made chief executive of Taco Bell, one of the American fast-food chains owned by Yum! Brands
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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 is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of...
Adidas is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of the Boca Juniors football club in Argentina, reportedly paying $100 million over the next ten years. It will also pay additional bonuses for victories and royalties on the sale of jerseys. Adidas is also the sponsor of a rival Argentinian ...
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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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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 ...
