Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 131
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The integration between Sport Zone and JD Sprinter in Iberia...
The integration between Sport Zone and JD Sprinter in Iberia is moving ahead, with several of the Portuguese retailer's stores in Spain reportedly having adopted the green color of the Sprinter retail brand. This comes after JD Sprinter and Sport Zone completed an Iberian tie-up earlier this year under a ...
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Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been...
Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been opening stores specializing in the sale of sneakers in the past few years. A Swedish sports retailer, Stadium, has already opened two stores under the Sneakers Point banner in the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Malmö, as well as an ...
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Karstadt has agreed to offer Boomerang and Mountain Pro clothing...
Karstadt has agreed to offer Boomerang and Mountain Pro clothing for running, fitness and outdoor in its Karstadt department stores and its Karstadt Sports specialty stores in Germany, as well as on their websites. The two brands are private labels of El Corte Inglés, the big Spanish department store chain. ...
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Adidas challenges Rockport’s sale
A U.S. equity fund, Charlesbank Capital Partners, has emerged as the only bidder for most of the assets of the bankrupt Rockport Group, including its intellectual property rights for the Rockport, Aravon and Dunham brands, its sales operations in Europe and Asia and its other global wholesale and e-commerce businesses. ...
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Adidas will be the official supplier of athletic footwear, apparel...
Adidas will be the official supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and accessories for the Jaguars, the collegiate teams of Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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Adidas has signed up two NBA draft prospects, Trae Young...
Adidas has signed up two NBA draft prospects, Trae Young in Oklahoma and Lonnie Walker in Miami, as well as a 21-year-old NHL star, Mathew Barzal, who plays as the center for the New York Islanders team
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Decathlon has opened a 300-square-meter “Connect Store” in the central...
Decathlon has opened a 300-square-meter “Connect Store” in the central railroad station of Berlin. Like two similar stores opened in Munich and Stuttgart in the last two years, it allows passersby to order items online and to collect them. It's Decathlon's fifth store in the German capital and its 52nd ...
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Adidas has pledged to use only recycled plastic by 2024....
Adidas has pledged to use only recycled plastic by 2024. The announcement was first reported by the Financial Times. The company uses virgin plastic for a number of its products, including T-shirts, sports bras and many others, as this material is lightweight and dries quickly. Meanwhile, the sporting goods giant ...
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Schöffel has launched a new B2B internet portal for its...
Schöffel has launched a new B2B internet portal for its retailer partners worldwide. Retailers are able to place orders, put together collections for their stores, reorder items and receive marketing support for their communication with customers. Schöffel aims to expand the range of its services on its B2B portal in ...
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Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June,...
Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June, 28. The German voluntary group opened it in Kiel in cooperation with Intersport Knudsen, the group's local retail partner, and with Puma and the city of Kiel. Other sponsors and partners are AOK NordWest, the German insurance company, and Kompan, ...
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Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start...
Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start of October by Intersport Twinsport, the largest Intersport member in the Netherlands, Sport Partner reports. The store of about 6,000 square meters is one of the five megastores run by Sportsworld, which was launched by Inge van Kemenade as a ...
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Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns...
Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns about potential over-commercialization of football and dilution of the game's quality, due to an increasing number of competitions and participants. In an interview with Kicker, a German football magazine, he said that Fifa's decision to increase the number of teams ...
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Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test...
Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test a new retail format called Power Store. The information has been released by the retailer's senior management during a conversation with financial analysts, according to reports by Fashion Network. The new format is supposed to offer customers an immersive experience ...
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Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that...
Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that an unauthorized party had gained access to customer information from its e-commerce platform in the U.S. A preliminary investigation indicates that a few million records were stolen including contact information, user names and encrypted passwords, but there was no evidence ...
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Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...
Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...
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Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products,...
Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products, is entering the Portuguese market with the opening of three stores in Guimaraes, Porto and Lisbon. Actually, it already opened a store on the Portuguese island of Madeira in 2016. The chain already has 40 stores in operations, most of ...
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Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports...
Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports Fashion group, is opening a second store in Paris, in the Marais district. Footpatrol has turned into a sneaker destination in Soho in London since it opened its original store in 2002 and then moved to its current location on ...
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Zalando plans to expand into Ireland and the Czech Republic,...
Zalando plans to expand into Ireland and the Czech Republic, which may be followed by websites in Portugal and other European countries
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Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet,...
Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet, a shopping center due to open around the end of this year in Paris, where the French sports retailer has taken up a space of 1,500 square meters. The shopping center in the north-eastern area of Cardinet-Batignolles covers more than ...
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Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring...
Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring its big retail store, covering five floors, and reopened it in May. On the ground floor, Reischmann offers training and running products as well as lifestyle-sneakers for men. The first floor is used for the running, fitness, beachwear and winter ...
