Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 166
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Zalando cancels B&B consumer festival
As we previously reported, the big Berlin-based e-tailer bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show in the former Tempelhof airport of the German capital a few months ago, saying that it was planning to turn the event into a big consumer-oriented fashion festival. It has now announced the cancellation ...
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Foot Locker has opened a big flagship store in Madrid....
Foot Locker has opened a big flagship store in Madrid. Located at 6 Calle de Preciados, it stretches over 1,500 square meters on three floors. It offers more apparel than Foot Locker's 49 other stores in Spain. It houses a House of Hoops and two dedicated areas for Nike Sportswear. ...
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Runners Point, the German retail chain owned by Foot Locker,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain owned by Foot Locker, has moved into the Austrian market with its new, more specialist format, which focuses on running, to the detriment of brands such as Timberland or Vans. Runners Point has opened its first two stores in Austria, located in the SCS ...
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Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, launched its...
Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, launched its web store last month
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Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight...
Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight more Outdoor by SportXX stores within its SportXX general sports stores by the end of the year (more in the Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Growing Zalando invests in research and logistics
Zalando has opened its second “Tech Hub” outside Germany in Helsinki, starting with ten employees this month and building up gradually to 200. The team will concentrate on the development of innovative customer-oriented products, applications and services, particularly on the mobile shopping front. The new Tech Hub will complement the ...
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Millet will soon open a store in Paris, taking the...
Millet will soon open a store in Paris, taking the place of a former Lafuma shop
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Odlo has opened an outlet store in One Nation near...
Odlo has opened an outlet store in One Nation near Paris, which is the biggest factory outlet center in France
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Decathlon, Timberland, Zara and about 20 other major international brands...
Decathlon, Timberland, Zara and about 20 other major international brands have signed exclusive partnership agreements with the Alibaba Group, establishing its Tmall.com website as the only third-party internet platform through which they will sell their products to consumers in China. In announcing these deals, Alibaba also said that it is ...
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Sport 2000 International and Adidas have been running since Aug....
Sport 2000 International and Adidas have been running since Aug. 1 an exclusive marketing campaign on Youtube to introduce the brand's X and Ace series of football boots, pushing traffic and sell-through of the products to the specialist dealers affiliated with the group.
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Fusalp, the French skiwear brand acquired by Philippe and Sophie...
Fusalp, the French skiwear brand acquired by Philippe and Sophie Lacoste 18 months ago, will open its first boutique next month at 8 rue des Blancs-Manteaux, in the Marais district of Paris. It will also have a space in three Seibu department stores in Japan, the NK department store in ...
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Adidas makes new waves in American team sports
Anxious to improve its low market share in the U.S., Adidas has signed two important basketball sponsorship deals, focusing on individual players, after walking off from a previous marketing contract with the NBA, which is going to be in the hands of Nike from the 2015/16 playing season.The German brand ...
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Adidas has completed the purchase of a new warehouse outside...
Adidas has completed the purchase of a new warehouse outside Moscow at a price estimated by local sources at between $70 million and $100 million. Located in a warehousing complex where it has been renting more than 65,000 square meters of space since 2012, the new warehouse is nearly double ...
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Adidas is testing different workplace concepts at its headquarters in...
Adidas is testing different workplace concepts at its headquarters in Herzogenaurach in a new office building named “Pitch,” where 300 of its brand management employees were moved at the beginning of the month. The new office space does not embody any finished concept but is the flexible beta version of ...
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Adidas and Manchester United have declared that the launch of...
Adidas and Manchester United have declared that the launch of the team's new kit has been the most successful in both the club and the brand's history. The German sporting goods giant replaced Nike as the team's kit supplier on Aug. 1, after signing a ten-year, $1.28 billion partnership deal ...
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Adidas has agreed a three-year partnership deal with the Chinese...
Adidas has agreed a three-year partnership deal with the Chinese education ministry to support the growth of football at grassroots level across the country. The program will involve 20,000 primary and middle schools and train 50,000 teachers. Adidas will also fund summer football camps for more than 400 students. The ...
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After the inauguration of a store in the centrally located...
After the inauguration of a store in the centrally located Rathauspassagen, Decathlon is planning to open two more stores in the Berlin area, according to SAZ, one of which would be close to an Intersport store in the Schöneweide section of the German capital
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Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and...
Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and ice boots, has opened its own concept store in Gothenburg. Since it was established in the early 2000s, production has increased significantly every year, and growth has remained at an average of about 30 percent. Last year, Icebug had a ...
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Descente will open its first European store in London in...
Descente will open its first European store in London in November. Located at 14-16, Foubert's Place, in the Carnaby Street area of the city, it will fill 700 square meters on three floors. The Japanese brand wants to add three to five more stores at various European locations.
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Adidas is launching Standard 19, a new premium training collection...
Adidas is launching Standard 19, a new premium training collection for young urban consumers, which marks the return of the German brand in the premium sportswear niche just over a year after it discontinued SLVR. The new line is made up of materials including polyester, elasthane and merino wool. Climacool, ...
