Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 151
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Puma is opening a new store on the famous Calle...
Puma is opening a new store on the famous Calle Fuencarral in Madrid
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Migros is reportedly considering opening its own bike stores next...
Migros is reportedly considering opening its own bike stores next year. The suggested name, SportXX Bike World, would seem to indicate that the new specialist stores will be somehow connected with Migros' mixed sports stores, SportXX, which already feature bike sections. The Swiss retailer has not yet confirmed the details ...
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Asics Corp. has opened the first directly managed Asics Tiger...
Asics Corp. has opened the first directly managed Asics Tiger store in the Shinsalbashi district of Osaka. The store sports a new logo for this brand, which the Japanese sports shoe company launched at the beginning of 2015 for a new collection of retro-athletic, sports-inspired lifestyle shoes that are not ...
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Under Armour has slated new store openings in Philadelphia, Boston...
Under Armour has slated new store openings in Philadelphia, Boston and New York City's World Trade Center
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Intersport Switzerland has announced that it will sell products on...
Intersport Switzerland has announced that it will sell products on the web starting in spring 2017 thanks to a new strategic partnership with Brack.ch, the online store of the Competec group. Shoppers will be able to buy online and collect their items at about 200 Intersport stores in the country, ...
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Adidas unveils Speedfactory shoe
Adidas unveiled the first shoe made at its fully automated German factory last month. The Futurecraft MFG (Made For Germany) that came out of the Adidas group's Speedfactory in Ansbach is one of the most tangible results of the latest innovation in footwear manufacturing, moving toward increasingly customized production that ...
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The Adidas flagship store in Berlin's Tauentzienstrasse joined forces with...
The Adidas flagship store in Berlin's Tauentzienstrasse joined forces with Zalando in June in a pilot project to enable consumers to order in-store via the e-tailer's ZipCart app. With Zalando's app, shoppers can see what is in stock in the store and order what they want. The integrated commerce pilot ...
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Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in...
Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in connection with several footwear designs. In its complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Division) in late August, the sports giant alleges that Bally is offering for sale and selling footwear featuring two ...
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Adidas Golf has struck a multi-year apparel and footwear endorsement...
Adidas Golf has struck a multi-year apparel and footwear endorsement deal with Dustin Johnson. The brand has been working with Johnson for the last ten years. The extended deal comes as the hard-hitting player is enjoying an outstanding year, as 2016 PGA of America Player of the Year, 2016 US ...
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Lenzing has reported a net profit of €94.6 million for...
Lenzing has reported a net profit of €94.6 million for the first half of 2016, which represents an increase of 83.9 percent over the same period of last year. The Austria-based maker of botanic cellulose fiber attributed this strong performance to the implementation of a new strategy focusing on environmentally-friendly ...
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Decathlon opened its first store in the recently created W1...
Decathlon opened its first store in the recently created W1 shopping mall in Hamburg. On 3.000 sqm, the store presents about 35,000 sports items for more than 70 different sports with a focus on running, water sports and mountaineering. Decathlon now has more than 1,000 stores worldwide and 30 stores ...
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The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened...
The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened its doors, covering 800 square meters on two floors at a strategically location near Oslo's City Hall. It displays the entire product range of the Norwegian company - both hardware and softgoods. The store is meant to portray Bergans as ...
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Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in...
Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in Europe as a pop-up store in the Covent Garden district of London. It will stay open until the end of this year. Reportedly, MLB was going to hold a professional game in London before the end of 2017, but the ...
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Herbert Hainer is leaving a transformed Adidas Group
Some of the most influential retailers, suppliers and other executives in the international sporting goods industry will be converging on a football pitch in Herzogenaurach next Friday to mark the departure of Herbert Hainer, the chief executive of the Adidas group for more than 15 years. The players will include ...
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Adidas has begun a search for a permanent replacement for...
Adidas has begun a search for a permanent replacement for Chris Grancio, who is leaving as the company's global head of basketball. He has been overseeing Adidas' NBA deal and relations with basketball players since May 2014. Rebecca Jury, vice president of product in Adidas' basketball division, is taking over ...
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Adidas has added eight more basketball rookies to the growing...
Adidas has added eight more basketball rookies to the growing roster of athletes sponsored in the U.S.
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An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in...
An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in the new position of brand director, responsible for category management, design and marketing. He had been assisting Odlo in these areas and in communication since last year. After working for seven years at Adidas in Portland and Herzogenaurach, and two ...
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Adidas has launched a new sub-category of apparel, Athletics, which...
Adidas has launched a new sub-category of apparel, Athletics, which is meant to be worn by athletes before and after their game or competition. This contemporary take on pre-game wear was launched at an event in New York last week with a U.S. track athlete, Tori Bowie, Andrew Wiggins of ...
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JD Sports will have a second store on London's Oxford...
JD Sports will have a second store on London's Oxford Street, located within the West One shopping center above the Bond Street tube station. The retailer already has a store at the east end of Oxford Street.
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Moncler has now a store in the City Center DC,...
Moncler has now a store in the City Center DC, the first one in the Washington, DC area
