Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 99
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News briefsVicky Free will run Adidas’ global marketing operations
Adidas has appointed a new global marketing director, Vicky Free. She will take up the new role in the position of senior vice president at the company’s head office in Herzogenaurach on Jan. 4, reporting to Brian Grevy, executive board member of the group responsible for global brands. As Adidas ...
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+++ While expanding into the southern part of Germany, Decathlon is opening its second Austria store at a former Sports Direct location in the Stadlau industrial park north of Vienna, and it will be followed by one in Klagenfurt next year +++ Printemps has announced plans to shut down three ...
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Infographics & DataHow Adidas is driving channel shift to DTC
This chart shows the DTC-share of total net revenues in Q3 2020 vs Q3 2019. This chart can be downloaded as JPG, PNG or PDF.
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Alibaba enjoys record Singles Day, but its market cap drops
This year’s Singles Day raked in a gross merchandise volume (GMV) of 498.2 billion yuan (€63.67bn-$75.19bn) for Alibaba up sharply from the RMB 268.4 billion reported a year ago. The rival Chinese e-tailer Jd.com had sales of about ¥271.5 billion (€34.71bn-$40.99bn). Lasting 11 days this year, Alibaba’s Chinese sales festival ...
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Sport 2000 Austria leads the charge in international buying
The collaboration among the national Sport 2000 organizations has reached a new milestone with a decision to let Sport 2000 Austria coordinate purchases of snow sports products for the autumn/winter 2021/22 season on behalf of Sport 2000 retailers in Germany and seven other countries. If it works out well, this ...
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Decathlon launches self-checkout lanes in Russia
Decathlon has introduced its first self-checkout lanes in Russia at its Altufyevo store in Moscow and plans to expand the use of the system to other locations. The company has already installed its “Scan & Go” system, which allows customers to scan the items and to pay for them with ...
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Sport 2000 International wants to refine the online and offline experience
Sport 2000 International is actively pursuing the development of its e-commerce capabilities in order to engage consumers online at the local, national and international levels, in collaboration with its brand partners. The new international e-commerce platform sport2000.com, currently serving only the German market, was launched in March 2020 with the ...
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Online retail for sporting goods grows above average in Switzerland
The latest edition of the Distance Selling Monitor for Switzerland - a monthly survey of 113 online retailers in Switzerland carried out by GfK in cooperation with the Swiss Post Office and the Swiss Retail Association - reports continued high online sales for the third quarter of 2020, although brick-and-mortar ...
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ArticleDigitalization helps Adidas to recover
The Adidas Group made a strong recovery in the third quarter, approaching a normalization of its business, thanks largely to a 51 percent boost in e-commerce, coupled with a more a selective distribution policy. Mentioning its close relations with JD Sports Fashion and Zalando as examples, down to inventory sharing, ...
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Adidas releases a collection with F***ing Awesome
Adidas Skateboarding has released a collection with F***ing Awesome, a brand of gear and apparel for skaters. Designed by the skate brand’s co-founder, Jason Dill, the collection is described as a “dual-season apparel and footwear concept series.” Installment One – consisting of a Taekwondo outfit, coveralls, a jersey set, technical ...
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Alibaba grows by 30%, misses Ant Group’s IPO
Confirming a recovery from the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in China, the Alibaba Group reported a 30 percent increase in overall revenues to 155.1 billion yuan renminbi (€19.9bn-$23.5bn) in the third quarter, leading to a rise of 28 percent in adjusted Ebitda to RMB 47.5 billion ($6.1bn-$7.2bn). The ...
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ArticleGrowing Zalando launches Connected Retail in more countries
In releasing excellent results for the third quarter, Zalando announced the introduction of its Connected Retail program in Denmark, Finland and Norway on Nov. 1. As it did for a few months after its launch in Germany and the Netherlands, it is waiving all commissions for all partners using the ...
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Decathlon partners with Conad supermarkets in Italy
Decathlon is opening a shop-in-shop at a Conad supermarket in Rivoli, an Italian town near Turin. The 310-square-meter space will sell a selection of Decathlon products with a focus on fitness, running, swimming, trekking, sports nutrition, sports bags and protective sports equipment. Customers will pay for these goods at the ...
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+++ Hervis has reopened an 800-square-meter store in Bad Ischl near Salzburg based on a new shop fitting concept and design, with a focus on outdoor and winter sports +++ Blue Tomato has opened a new Dutch store in The Hague +++ +++ As planned, Goldwin has opened its first ...
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ArticleBad timing for the new lockdowns in Europe
More and more European governments are following the example of the Republic of Ireland, which ordered a six-week lockdown on the sale of non-essential goods at physical stores on Oct. 21 to help stem the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, which now has its epicenter in Europe, as in ...
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China dominates e-commerce
Citing figures from Activate Consulting, Diffusion Sport reports that four Chinese e-tailers now account for 42 percent of the world’s e-commerce, more than tripling Amazon’s share. With its 13 percent share, Amazon is not, in fact, the top player in the sector. That distinction goes to Alibaba, with 15 percent. ...
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ArticleCovid affected China’s biggest sports retailer slightly
Topsports International, which claims to manage the biggest network of directly operated stores in the Chinese sports market, reported a 7.0 percent drop in revenues to 15.77 billion yuan renmimbi (€2.0bn-$2.4bn) for the first half of its fiscal year, ended on Aug. 31. The gross margin contracted by 2.1 percentage ...
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News briefsFrasers opens its first multi-brand store
Britain’s Frasers Group, formerly Sports Direct International, opened its first multi-brand store on Oct. 31. The initiative stems from Frasers’ “elevation programme,” under the leadership of Michael Murray. The 51,000-square-foot premises are located at the Cascades Shopping Centre in the British city of Portsmouth and feature products from the Frasers ...
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Decathlon plans to launch its marketplace in France and other countries
According to reports by sport-guide.com and other media, Decathlon is planning to test the possible launch of a marketplace in France by the end of this year. It would be part of a project that would also be implemented sooner or later in Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.K. ...
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Adidas tops ranking of culturally relevant brands in sport
The Fan Intelligence Index, a new global study intended to identify the 40 culturally most relevant brands through sport, has placed Adidas at the top of the ranking, which is ”based around a brand’s ability to influence culture through sport.” The Big a was followed by the Jordan brand, the ...
