Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 137
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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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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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Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in...
Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in Sweden, in a popular shopping district in the middle of Stockholm. Like the company's other locations around the world, the store space of about 200 square meters will be used to sell the company's clothing and as a yoga studio.
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Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from...
Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from its AM4 (Adidas Made For) series. The shoe, which is made at Adidas' Speedfactory facility in Atlanta, this time utilizes yarns derived from marine plastic recovered from coastal areas. The AM4LA, tailored to the streets of Los Angeles, follows the ...
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Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa...
Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa through 2021, including its Champions League, its Super Cup, its Youth League and its Futsal Champions League. The Three Stripes has supplied the match ball for Uefa's tournaments since 2001.
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Adidas will replace Nike as the sponsor of the Nevada...
Adidas will replace Nike as the sponsor of the Nevada Wolf Pack athletic teams at the University of Nevada in Reno
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Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return...
Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return for the second consecutive year of Run for the Oceans, a running initiative to raise awareness of the threat of marine plastic pollution, from June 8 to July 8. Adidas and Parley will be hosting a series of runs in ...
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Burton is opening new stores in Munich, Innsbruck and Annecy,...
Burton is opening new stores in Munich, Innsbruck and Annecy, after opening a new one in Prague in April
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding...
Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding to around 60 percent of its franchisees, have joined a partnership project with Go Sport that will see them transformed into “Endurance Shop by Go Sport,” the banner of the new project. The 32 stores have an average turnover of ...
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Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in...
Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in the U.S. District Court in Portland over the alleged copying of the German brand's iconic Stan Smith shoe. A few days ago, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring Skechers from selling its Onix shoe, but it ...
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Zalando adds a line of beauty products
Zalando added a line of beauty products from 130 cosmetic and skin care brands to its offer toward the end of the first quarter of this year, accompanied by online tutorials and plans for the establishment of a Beauty Concept Store in Berlin next month. More than 70 percent of ...
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Joining the newest flagship stores of Adidas, Nike and Asics...
Joining the newest flagship stores of Adidas, Nike and Asics in the same area of New York City, Puma will be opening a 24,000-square-foot flagship store in Manhattan toward the middle of next year. Spanning over three levels, it will be located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 49th ...
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Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter...
Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter and Instagram, according to an analysibs by Brandwatch. In April, Adidas' logo appeared in 6,664,170 unique images, which means in 154 new images every minute, or three new images every second, Brandwatch explains. Adidas is followed by Nike, whose logo ...
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Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years...
Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years as sponsor of the Leicester City football club, which plays in England's Premier League. The duration of the new contract has not been specified. This comes after Leicester City finished ninth in the Premier League, ending the season with a ...
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Netshoes invests in its marketplace, after a tough quarter
Netshoes saw the price of its shares plunge by as much as 60 percent in the two days after the Brazilian online retailer reported that its sales increased by 0.8 percent to 396.2 million Brazilian reais (€90.9m-$107.2m) for the first quarter but its loss widened to R$60.3 million (€13.8m-$16.3m), compared with ...
