Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 165
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Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by...
Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by between 33 and 35 percent in 2015, up from a previously forecast range of 28-31 percent, but they will generate an operating margin of 3 to 4 percent, less than the anticipated margin of 4-5 percent. The updated forecast for ...
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Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis...
Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis section of the French Handisport Federation (FFH), which promotes tennis for disabled people in France. The sporting goods retailer had recently proposed its clients donate €1 in cash for this cause. In 2014, when the initiative was first launched, Go ...
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Keller Sports wins prizes, adds top winter sports brands
Keller Sports, the first online retailer in Europe to have chosen a premium positioning in the market, won a couple of important prizes a few weeks ago in a prestigious contest for the “Shop Usability Award,” organized by a German retail consultancy, Shoplupe. Competing against 533 other e-commerce websites in ...
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Adidas leads research project on recyclable football products
The Adidas Group is leading a three-year research project, Sport Infinity, to make sporting goods that can be repeatedly recycled, without any chemical adhesives or waste. Using an inexaustible super-material, they could be entirely broken down and remolded into new performance products. The project focuses on plastic-based football products, starting with ...
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Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to...
Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to Strasbourg toward the end of 2017, in the new business area of Wacken. It will thus leave the village of Landersheim near Saverne, where it was established in 1973. Despite repeated renovations, the office complex was apparently no longer suitable. ...
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Sport Partner reports that all Telstar Megastores are to remain...
Sport Partner reports that all Telstar Megastores are to remain open, on the back of an agreement between unnamed investors and the Dutch sports retailer's receiver. The stores will continue trading under the Telstar name but the group will work closely together with Daka Sport, another Dutch sports retailer, which has actively ...
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Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in...
Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in fitness apparel and footwear for women, is preparing to open its fourth store in October, on about 60 square meters in Polygone Riviera, a new shopping center in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice
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Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and...
Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and plans to add two others in New York City and Boston by the end of this year. The fast-growing brand, which is said to have a potential for total sales of €500 million, already opened new stores in London and ...
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Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store...
Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store in Los Angeles, Nike The Grove, named after an iconic outdoor shopping mall and covering 31,000 square feet on three floors
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Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online...
Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online platform for second-hand sporting goods of all sorts, including equipment. The platform is open to both private customers and professionals and can be accessed via the retailer's e-commerce site at www.go-sport.fr under “Services.” Ads are grouped by region and city ...
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Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with...
Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with stores in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and more recently in Germany, has started trading through a German-language online store, www.stadium.de. Stadium opened its first German store on about 1,650 square meters in Hamburg last year and added a second store in ...
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On Aug. 31, Hervis Sport opened its third store under...
On Aug. 31, Hervis Sport opened its third store under the flag of Hervis Express in Vienna's Westbahnhof (West Station). For the Austrian multi-channel retailer, this format is relatively new. It was premiered in Innsbruck last year followed by similar shop in Prague. The idea is to present the full ...
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New sports marketing initiatives by Adidas
Adidas is said to be prepared to pay about one billion euros to renew its sponsorship of the German Football Federation for ten years, after the contract expires at the end of 2018. Company officials decline to comment, but the figure seems to be high, although the national German football ...
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Adidas hired Egon Zehnder last February to head-hunt a new...
Adidas hired Egon Zehnder last February to head-hunt a new chief executive to take over the place of Herbert Hainer after his present contract expires in March 2017, according to Bloomberg. The 61-year-old Hainer has been running the group since 2001. Bloomberg quoted a couple of institutional shareholders of Adidas ...
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Adidas filed a suit against Skechers USA in Portland's district...
Adidas filed a suit against Skechers USA in Portland's district court on Sept. 14, charging that one of its shoe styles is a knock-offs of its Stan Smith model, and that others use its Supernova trademark and its Three-Stripe mark. The two companies have already squared off and reached settlements ...
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Alibaba Group Holding has established a new Alibaba Sports Group...
Alibaba Group Holding has established a new Alibaba Sports Group together with Sina Corporation and Yunfeng Capital. The idea is to leverage Alibaba's large e-commerce footprint in China with Sina's media resources to create an integrated, internet-based sports platform for the benefit of the sports industry, sports teams, sports fans ...
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Under Armour has set up a sport corner at the...
Under Armour has set up a sport corner at the Citadium Caumartin shop in Paris, the first for the American brand inside a fashion store. The 35-square-meter space is located on the third floor of the store. It sells both fitness apparel and footwear.
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Surfstitch, the Australian e-commerce group specializing in contemporary surf and...
Surfstitch, the Australian e-commerce group specializing in contemporary surf and fashion brands, will unify its six platforms - Surfstitch.com, Surfdome.com, Swell.com, Stabmag.com, magicseaweed.com and theLens – under the global site Swell in 2016. Surfstitch posted revenues of 199.4 million Australian dollars (€124.7m-$141.4m) in the fiscal year ended June 30, representing ...
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New Balance has opened its second store in Barcelona. Presenting...
New Balance has opened its second store in Barcelona. Presenting a new layout, it is located in a high-traffic shopping street of the city, Portal de l'Àngel. It will be the brand's 4th store in Spain. New Balance has also opened its first Portuguese store in Lisbon. Through its French ...
