Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 124
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Courir has opened its first store in the United Arab...
Courir has opened its first store in the United Arab Emirates, based on its new Wood concept, through its master franchisee for the Middle East, Al Mana. The new store is located close to a Go Sport store in Dubai's Mall of the Emirates. Courir, a French athletic footwear chain ...
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SportScheck, the leading German sporting goods retailer, appointed Axel Puhlmann...
SportScheck, the leading German sporting goods retailer, appointed Axel Puhlmann to the position of marketing director on Jan. 7. He succeeds Paul Stahala, who had held the position since September 2016 and joined Karstadt as marketing director in November of last year. Puhlmann began his career as a consultant for ...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Alibaba Group have announced...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Alibaba Group have announced the launch of the first-ever Olympic store on Tmall, China's largest business-to-consumer online retail platform, operated by Alibaba. The Olympic e-store will be initially available to Chinese consumers only, with plans to later create an e-commerce platform available globally. The ...
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Adidas has announced the start of the second tranche of...
Adidas has announced the start of the second tranche of a multi-year share buyback program launched last March. The group plans to repurchase around €800 million worth of its own shares during 2019. It already spent last year €1 billion to buy back 5.1 million shares, corresponding to 2.5 percent ...
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Adidas is reportedly planning to launch a signature shoe for...
Adidas is reportedly planning to launch a signature shoe for Donovan Mitchell. According to a report in SLCdunk.com, the shoe is set for launch in the third quarter of 2019. Mitchell, 22, plays for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to playing in the NBA, he ...
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Adidas has announced an initiative to help remove barriers faced...
Adidas has announced an initiative to help remove barriers faced by girls and women in sports. The She Breaks Barriers initiative expands on the #creatorsunite conversation, launched by the brand in August 2018, and is meant to inspire and support the next generation of female athletes, creators and leaders. To ...
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Intersport Austria is organizing its first-ever free-skiing day at 21...
Intersport Austria is organizing its first-ever free-skiing day at 21 Austrian ski resorts on Jan. 13. To motivate even more people to ski, the company is also giving away 10,000 ski-lift tickets on Jan. 7-11. Intersport Austria has also organized a kids' slope racing cup, with 17 ski races for ...
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Decathlon is planning to open about 15 new stores in...
Decathlon is planning to open about 15 new stores in Germany this year at various locations including Fürth, Munich, Dortmund and Berlin. As previously reported, the number of its stores in the country grew in 2018 by 16 to a total of 65 units. The choice of the locations and ...
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Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German...
Starting on Dec. 11, Zalando has been giving its German customers the option to pay for the products they order on their iPhones with Apple Pay. It has also begun to test a “Smart Doorbell” and “Smart Doorlock” technology with the Belgian Post Office. The technology allows customers to open ...
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Zalando's depressed share price went up by 6.1% following renewed...
Zalando's depressed share price went up by 6.1% following renewed speculation that the Alibaba Group may make a bid for the German-based e-tailer
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Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in...
Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in the downtown area of Zurich
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Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse,...
Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse, with a surface of 3,650 square meters on three floors. It's smaller than a store that the chain had in the city until 2013, but it has more modern features, similar to those that it introduced at a redesigned store ...
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Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor...
Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor of the Dubai Mall. The 3,500-square-meter store in the capital of the United Arab Emirates has a small basketball court. It features a women's salon, NikePlus enhancements and customization facilities for shoes and apparel. The opening in Dubai follows last ...
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Major sports retailers grow twice as fast as the world market
The 64 largest sporting goods specialty retail chains in the world raised their sales by 10 percent in local currencies as well as in dollars in 2017, according to an annual survey by Sporting Goods Intelligence, in spite of the strong growth of the generalist internet operators in this and ...
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Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the...
Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the course of next year. The French sporting goods retail chain already has one store in the Bavarian capital. Decathlon aimed to open no less than 13 new stores in Germany before the end of the year, building on its current strong portfolio ...
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Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in...
Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in the main European countries, the Norwegian sporting goods industry association, Norsk Sportsbransjeforening, is sharing with us some additional figures that show the estimated share of online sales in the market. They indicate that internet sales of sporting goods were worth ...
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Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store...
Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store in Beijing, originally planned for Dec. 15, justifying the move with delays in construction. No new date was given. Observers felt that the suspension was linked to the arrest on Dec. 1 of Meng Wanzhou, the financial director of Huawei, ...
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Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased...
Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased its revenue from e-mail marketing by 28 percent by harvesting its existing customer data. According to the company, a recent test showed that its cost per click had been cut by 75 percent. Looking for ways to direct customers to ...
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UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched...
UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched its web store, addressing customers in 47 countries, with others due to follow soon. The brand, which stands for Unleash Your Nature, was launched last year by Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works also for Armani and ...
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The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with...
The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with Intersport, will be going its own way on Sept. 1, 2019. Both companies are closely linked, and they have influenced the Austrian sports goods retail industry for the past five years together. The Bründl group currently manages 26 stores and 550 ...
