All Retail articles – Page 9
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ArticleAlibaba tops Greenpeace’s environmental ranking among China’s e-com platforms
Greenpeace East Asia has ranked China’s largest e-commerce platforms based on their commitment to combating climate change, actions already taken, level of disclosure and steps taken to manage the marketplaces responsibly and sustainably. According to the climate activist group, Hangzhou-based e-commerce platform Alibaba, which last December pledged to become carbon ...
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ArticleSports retailers confirm 2021 recovery
As previously reported, the sporting goods market fell by an estimated 5 percent in Europe in 2020, due to the pandemic, with only 16 out of 64 leading retailers in 15 European countries reporting flat or higher figures. The year 2021 was much better, with many retailers enjoying double-digit growth ...
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AnalysisAnalysis: The industry’s market cap rose by 9.5% in 2021
This exclusive chart shows the development in the market capitalization of the top 88 stock-listed sporting goods companies between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. This is exclusive data and analysis for Professional Members.
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands cooperation with POW
Blue Tomato, the European boardsports and lifestyle retail chain, has been partnering for many years with Protect Our Winters (POW), the global environmental protection organization established around 15 years ago by the U.S. pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones. Blue Tomato has expanded the cooperation by becoming the official merchandise partner of ...
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Omni-channel retailing dominates for sporting goods in Switzerland
Swiss consumers are shopping more than before online, but they still prefer to buy most kinds of products in the physical stores, according to a study commissioned by the Swiss Retail Federation to Oliver Wyman, which conducted its survey in November. The overall share of purchases made in brick-and-mortar stores ...
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Social commerce will be a $1,200 bn business by 2025
Sporting goods brands should take a harder look at the benefits of social commerce, judging from a new report issued by Accenture. It says that shopping through social media platforms is expected to grow three times as fast as traditional e-commerce. Boosted by the Covid pandemic, it should rise from ...
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News briefsANWR Group exits as shareholder of Bico
At the end of 2021, the ANWR Group divested its 25.1 percent stake in in the German Bico Zweirad Marketing buying group by mutual agreement, turning the Schutz- und Beteiligungsgemeinschaft der Bico-Händler cooperative of bike dealers into its sole shareholder. ANWR, which is also the parent company of the Sport ...
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Sports Direct’s parent is reportedly bidding for Footasylum
Frasers Group has filed an offer to buy Footasylum, according to The Sunday Times. It has notified the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which again ruled in November that JD Sports Fashion must divest the 65-store chain on anti-trust grounds. JD acquired Footasylum in May 2019. Frasers’ bid is questionable, ...
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Alibaba pledges to reduce emissions
Alibaba Group has pledged to make its in-house operations carbon-neutral (Scope 1 and Scope 21 emissions) and to cut its carbon-intensity emissions (Scope 32) by 2030. It has also pledged to cut 1.5 gigatons in carbon emissions from its “business ecosystem” (Scope 3+) by 2035. To accomplish this, the Chinese-based ...
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Stadium Outlet continues to expand
Stadium will open a large 1,900-square-meter Stadium Outlet store on the ground floor of the Femman shopping center in Gotherburg in September 2022. The low-cost chain of the Stadium group currently has 62 locations in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
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News briefsBlue Tomato offers board rentals in Austria, Germany and Netherlands
Instead of just offering its board sports hardware, Blue Tomato has implemented a new equipment rental system both online and in brick-and-mortar stores in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands called “Rent Your Ride.” To date, 14 stores are associated, offering on-site education, rental, and board maintenance services. The boards ...
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Sports Direct’s parent may go private
Frasers Group, parent company of Sports Direct and many other operations, has failed to address so far recent rumors that Mike Ashley, its biggest shareholder, may want to take the company private. He already owns about 68 percent of the shares, and an ongoing share buyback program may soon take ...
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ArticleSigna Sports United goes public with a valuation of $3.0 billion
Signa Sports United (SSU), which has become the largest dedicated sports e-tailer in the world, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 15 with an opening price of $9.07 per share, down from an issue price of $9.43, which gave the company a valuation of $3.13 billion. ...
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New 2020 retail figures for Spain
We have obtained new figures for the sales of some of the leading Spanish sports retailers in 2020 from a Spanish market research agency, Sport Panel, leading us revise one of the charts that we published on Friday. The revised chart shows, among other things, that the Spanish turnover of ...
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News briefsFoot Locker launches its Cozi label of women’s apparel
Foot Locker has announced the global launch of its first private label of women’s apparel, Cozi, presenting it as “an apparel brand designed for women who keep up with trends, love sneakers and crave premium wardrobe staples at an affordable value.” It will be exclusively available in multiple sizes online ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands to Norway
Source: blue-tomato.com The new Blue Tomato store at Grensen 13 in downtown Oslo. Blue Tomato has opened its first store in Norway. The Austrian-based company, which is part of the U.S. action sports retailer Zumiez, moved into a 425-square-meter store at Grensen 13 in the heart of ...
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A new Absolute Teamsport partner in Germany
Sport Böckmann, a big German specialty team sports dealer based in Holdorf, will become the next partner in the roll-out of the Absolute Teamsport concept, Sport 2000’s new premium multi-channel format for team sports specialists. The long-time Sport 2000 partner will reopen its doors in the first quarter of 2022 ...
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ArticleAnalysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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After losing the Nike and Adidas contracts, Italy’s Sport Alliance boosts its wholesale activities
Sport Alliance, the Italian buying group affiliated with Sport 2000 International, is further boosting its wholesale operations with a contract for the distribution of Cariuma skate shoes in Italy. The brand’s sustainable sneakers are developed and produced in Brazil. Sport Alliance still has one and a half years to go ...
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Footway launches ninth e-tail shop, focusing on racquet sports
The Footway Group has launched its ninth specialty e-commerce site, Racketnow.com, which will be selling tennis, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel and other racquet sports products online in 24 countries, operating under the supervision of Gustav Land, general manager of the project. “The ambition,” says Land, “is for Racketnow.com to ...
