Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 138

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    The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to enable customers to try on boots in a virtual Champions League game between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. For three days earlier this month, at the renovated Adidas flagship store in Paris, customers wearing VR goggles and sensors on their ...

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    Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design & Manufacturing, one of Forever 21's suppliers, in a trademark case claiming that Forever 21, a Los-Angeles based fast-fashion retailer, had violated trademark law by using Adidas' three-stripe mark. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. The lawsuit, ...

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    Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian Football Association for three years, starting with the 2018/19 season

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    SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that it is in line to book a sales increase of 2 percent for the financial year ending next Feb. 28, after suffering a drop of 8.8 percent to €291 million in the previous year. The engine of the growth has ...

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    Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its own flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue, located near 57th Street and covering 2,035 square feet

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    Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten years, has re-opened a store of about 100 square meters in Snell, a famous sports store in Chamonix, using the New Zealand merino wool specialist's latest retail concept and displaying a full range of adventure, training and lifestyle products

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    One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space of 40,000 square feet, has just opened in the Liverpool One shopping center, featuring an area especially dedicated to football fans

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    Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public,...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public, will open next year its second women's store, covering 7,200 square feet in Manchester's Arndale Center

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    Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital of Norway, nearly two years after it was first reported that the American retailer would do so. The store is not significantly different from Foot Locker stores elsewhere in the world. It is located on the popular shopping street of ...

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    Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich with the Forever Faster concept, which has already been adopted by six other European stores, from London, Berlin and Prague to Antwerp, Madrid and Herzogenaurach, the German town where Puma has its head office. The Munich store sells wide ranges ...

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    CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of JD stores was opened in Spain this year. After openings in the shopping center of La Cañada in Marbella and the shopping center of Mataró Park in Mataró earlier this month, the number of openings has reached 14, to form ...

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    JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags in more than 200 stores all over Europe, in partnership with Agon Systems. A test conducted by tagging garments in the U.K., France and the Netherlands has apparently led to a reduction of up to ...

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    Zalando expands its partnership program

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Zalando has reportedly doubled the sales generated by its brand partnership programs in the last year, enabling brands to take advantage of Europe's leading online fashion retailing platform to sell extra products.The German company sells about 2,000 brands in 15 European countries, buying products and delivering them from its warehouses. ...

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    Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the...

    2017-12-29T00:00:00Z

    Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the spring, located on Boulevard Saint Germain, according to sportguide.com

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    World Cup qualifiers favor Adidas and Nike

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has taken an early lead in the World Cup, at least in terms of the number of teams to be outfitted by the German brand, after the last qualifications for the finals were played last week.With eleven teams to wear the Three stripes, Adidas is slightly ahead of Nike ...

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    As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers...

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers can create their own sneakers through Zalando.de. This has been an option for several years on the Adidas brand's online store with Miadidas, which enables consumers to pick their own colors, materials and soles. That same option has become available ...

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    Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this...

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this year at the International Retail Property Market (Mapic) in Cannes earlier this month. Nike was named “Retailer of the Year.” Adidas' new flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue was crowned for “Best Store Design.” Rapha's “clubhouse” cycling stores were ...

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    Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted...

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted as saying in Bild am Sonntag during the weekend that the company would have a problem if one of its partners was found guilty of breaking the law. The quote was placed in the context of the Adidas group's partnership ...

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    Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award,...

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor companies that have taken concrete steps to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains. Adidas leads a group of four winning companies which also includes C&A, Intel and The Co-Operative Group. ...

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    Alibaba breaks new records

    2017-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba hit a new record with its Singles Day shopping festival on Nov. 11, generating sales of $25.3 billion, 40 percent above the score reached a year ago. The event is a much bigger replica of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions that are becoming common in the Western ...