Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 128
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At the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, running from Jan. 30...
At the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, running from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 in Denver, the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), Snowsports Industries America (SIA) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) announced that they were forming the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership. This is the first broad coalition of trade groups ...
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Sportmaster wins over Adidas, launches its sixth chain
Sportmaster has reinforced its dominant market position in Russia, announcing that it will once again start offering products under the Adidas brand from the autumn/winter 2019/20 season, after many years of separation.Sportmaster considers itself as a strategic partner of Nike, and it also offers brands like Puma and Asics. However, ...
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China slowdown weighs on Alibaba’s sales
Alibaba Group Holding's revenues for its third fiscal quarter, ended on Dec. 31, grew at their weakest pace in four years, weighed by a slowing Chinese economy, which is being attributed to the ongoing trade war with the U.S.The Chinese e-tailer's sales increased by 41 percent from the year-ago quarter ...
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Amazon launches pop-up stores in Europe
What is happening to the big e-tailers? After the recent profit warnings of Asos and Zalando, the two biggest sharks in the pond, Alibaba and Amazon, have just put out discouraging figures. Both companies, which operate big marketplaces for sporting goods and many other products in their respective territories, have ...
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Atmósfera Sport, the Spanish buying group, will be launching an...
Atmósfera Sport, the Spanish buying group, will be launching an e-tail site – specifically for its sports-apparel division, Atmósfera Black – on Feb. 18. The initiative, representing an investment of more than €100,000, will be managed directly from the buying group's headquarters. The attendant staff has been expanded accordingly. For ...
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Mammut is collaborating with Braun Hamburg, a German retailer of...
Mammut is collaborating with Braun Hamburg, a German retailer of luxury brands like Bottega Veneta, Moncler, Maison Margiela and Santoni. Braun is now managed by a third generation of the Braun family in the person of Lars Braun. It runs two stores in Hamburg, which opened in 1933 and 1976, ...
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Nike has opened its first city-inspired SNKRS pop-up shop at...
Nike has opened its first city-inspired SNKRS pop-up shop at 711 10th Street NW in Atlanta. From Jan. 26 to the end of March, the shop will have a rotating selection of limited-edition styles – such the Ten collection and Air Force 1 drops – chosen specifically for Atlanta. Hoodies ...
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Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer, has decided to close...
Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer, has decided to close the Stadium Pulse concept store that it opened only recently at the Mall of Scandinavia, located just outside of Stockholm. The store is now heavily discounting its stock. The reasons given for the phaseout are that the new concept simply ...
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Spanish sporting goods retailers achieved a growth of 5.4% in...
Spanish sporting goods retailers achieved a growth of 5.4% in their sales in 2018 according to an estimate by DBK, a Spanish consultancy
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Adidas is doubling the number of sneakers it makes from...
Adidas is doubling the number of sneakers it makes from ocean plastic this year, expecting to turn out 11 million pairs in cooperation with Parley for the Oceans. Adidas projected sales of about five million pairs of such Parley shoes in 2018, up from one million in 2017. The sporting goods ...
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Adidas launches its new Parisian platform for start-ups
Adidas has announced the launch of “Platform A,” its new sports accelerator program, located at the Paris-based start-up campus Station F. The company said it is investing €1 million in the development of the initiative. Platform A brings together 13 start-ups that have been selected to work with Adidas on ...
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Adidas and Foot Locker call on consumers to design shoes
Adidas and Foot Locker are collaborating on a go-to-market plan that allows consumers to help create footwear with a local flavor. The plan takes inspiration from three themes: speed, cities and the open-source ideal of the computing world, where the raw code is public, free and open to changes by ...
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Puma and Blends, a California-based retailer of sneakers and apparel,...
Puma and Blends, a California-based retailer of sneakers and apparel, have collaborated on a new edition of the Cell Endura, a Puma sneaker originally sold in the 1990s. The upper is made of mesh and polyurethane-coated leather with metallic silver overlays and a color fade. The midsole has Puma's Cell ...
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Bründl Sports, one of the major Austrian sports retailers, has...
Bründl Sports, one of the major Austrian sports retailers, has decided to stop working with Intersport Austria, starting next Sept. 1. It has already announced the divorce by removing the Intersport Bründl name from its website, after almost 50 years of collaboration. The reason for the separation is a desire ...
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Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop...
Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop of 1.4 percent to 34.6 percent in its gross margin for the first quarter of its financial year, ended on Nov. 30. The Japanese retailer's net loss expanded to 195 million yen (€1.56m-$1.78m) from ¥48 million in the year-ago period. ...
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Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like...
Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like the original name of the company, to serve as a community space for runners in Santa Monica, California. First opened in 1967 by Nike's first employee, the original Blue Ribbon Sports store served as a hang-out for so-called “oddball athletes.” ...
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Columbia will open a flagship store on London's Carnaby Street...
Columbia will open a flagship store on London's Carnaby Street
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Decathlon is planning to open a distribution center in Switzerland...
Decathlon is planning to open a distribution center in Switzerland to service its growing network of stores in the country
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The WTO will tackle e-commerce
Geo-blocking, selective distribution and other issues related to e-commerce have already been tackled by organizations like the German Cartel Office and the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), which has a working group together with the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) on such topics.
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Size?, the UK-based retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is...
Size?, the UK-based retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is releasing a new exclusive sneaker with Adidas Originals for its Archive capsule: the “Beer” Kegler Super. Paying homage to the brewing traditions of Bavaria, the sneaker is an update of the Kegler Super of 1979, which was designed for Kegeln, ...
