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Russia appeals FIFA and UEFA bans in CAS
The Russian Football Federation (Rossijski Futbolny Sojus) has appealed the suspensions of Russian national teams and clubs from all FIFA and UEFA competitions over the invasion of Ukraine. The federation is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to lift the suspensions to allow Russia to take part in ...
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News briefsNike temporarily halts e-commerce in Russia
As reported by the Portland Business Journal, Nike has temporarily halted sales through its Russian website and app, stating that the company “cannot guarantee delivery of goods to customers in Russia.” The news came after major logistics companies such as UPS and FedEx announced they would temporarily suspend their services ...
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FIFA and UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions
FIFA and UEFA have jointly decided that all Russian teams, whether national or club, will be suspended from participation in FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice. These decisions were taken on Feb. 28 by the Bureau of the FIFA Council and the Executive Committee of UEFA, the highest decision-making ...
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IOC calls for relocation or cancellation of sporting events currently scheduled in Russia or Belarus
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has repeatedly reiterated that the IOC strongly condemns and supports the breach of the Olympic Truce by the Russian and Belarusian governments. The relevant UN resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly on Dec. 2, 2021 by consensus of all ...
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ArticleSportmaster shifts focus to Russian provinces with new retail format
Russia’s largest sporting goods retailer, Sportmaster, has unveiled plans to expand into cities with populations of up to 100,000 with a new store format. Sergey Agibalov, Sportmaster’s business manager, told the Russian Business Consulting agency that the new format would serve as an element of its omnichannel development strategy, in ...
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ArticleRussia’s Kant sees spike in sales during winter months
Russian sporting goods retailer Kant reported that the current winter season is going exceptionally well: Sales in November-December were up 30 to 40 percent compared to the same period last year. In January, sales declined slightly, but were still 15 to 20 percent higher than last year. Maxim Vinogradov, co-owner ...
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Snowy winter supports sporting goods sales in Russia
In some Russian regions, consumer activity in the sporting goods market has nearly doubled thanks to snowy winter conditions during the current winter season. It has been particularly strong over the online channel. Ilya Titarenko, director of the distribution department of Sportmaster, the country’s leading sporting goods retailer, confirmed that ...
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Ski resorts are opening in Russia, but many will not go there
The first ski resorts in Russia have opened in the Kemerovo and Khabarovsk Krai regions, marking the beginning of the early winter season. Around this time a year ago, the Russian market experienced a substantial rise in demand for winter sporting goods equipment, as many Russian skiers were prevented from ...
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New Russian lockdown boosts the resale market
A week-long lockdown ordered by the Russian government to slow down the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic forced Russian sporting goods retailers and others to shut most of their outlets, but it doesn’t seem to have affected the market to a major extent. As Russia has become the European country ...
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Wilberries sees big boom in online sales of sporting goods in Russia
Wildberries, the largest online retailer in Russia, reported an 85 percent increase in sales of sporting goods over the internet between the beginning of May and mid-August. In particular, the demand for electric scooters doubled. Electric bicycles were also among the bestsellers. Sales of all kinds of bicycles climbed by ...
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Moscow represents one-third of Russia’s sporting goods exports, driven by outdoor
In 2020, Moscow exported sporting goods for $17.06 million, accounting for nearly a third of Russia’s overall exports of such products, said Vladimir Efimov, deputy mayor of Moscow, in a recent press conference. Outdoor products represented 33.5 percent of the total export turnover, he said, while adding that deliveries of ...
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Decathlon begins renting sporting goods in Russia
Decathlon has installed 40-feet containers in several city parks in St. Petersburg where customers can rent some of the company’s sporting brands. Depending on the season and location, Decathlon plans to rent out bicycles, electric scooters, kayaks, SUP boards, tents, football gates, skis, snowboards and skates. Customers can also pick ...
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Russia postpones to June 15 deadline to sell untagged shoes
The Russian government has once again pushed back the deadline for retailers to sell their remaining inventories of untagged footwear to avoid counterfeits. The new date is June 15. Labelling shoes with special electronic tags became mandatory in Russia on June 1, 2020. As of April this year, 82,000 companies ...
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Decathlon plans to work with more online marketplaces in Russia
Decathlon is set to begin selling sporting goods through several online marketplaces in Russia as part of an expansion of its online sales activities, according to the local Retail news service, which quoted Julia Goroshenya, development director of Decathlon in Russia. Decathlon has already worked successfully with Russia’s second-largest online ...
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Russia may curtail counterfeiting within 12 months, Unichel feels
The mandatory tagging of footwear, coupled with increased controls in the Russian market, could curb the share of counterfeit shoes sold in the country, said Vladimir Denisenko, the head of Russia’s main footwear producer Unichel. Denisenko was initially critical about the tagging project when it was launched by the Russian ...
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Soft anti-Covid restrictions boost sales of winter sports items in Russia
After a slump in sales at the beginning of the current autumn/winter season, sales of products for winter sports in Russia have proven to be strong in January and February thanks to abundant snow and weak quarantine restrictions, allowing all ski facilities to continue to operate in contrast with ...
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Mandatory shoe tagging doesn’t prevent counterfeiting in Russia
Russian law enforcement agencies have discovered a big store that had been selling fake sports shoes under the guise of famous brands for almost one year in a shopping center in the central Nevsky district of St. Petersburg. It was estimated that the store caused the rights holders damages close ...
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Slinger Bag finds a distributor for Russia
Slinger Bag has signed a five-year distribution deal for Russia with Neva Sport, which handles the distribution for Babolat in the country as well. Slinger Bag will be launching its product in the country on April 1. As we have reported over the past few months, Slinger Bag has been ...
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Russian law enforcement agencies keep seizing untagged shoes
Russian police have seized big batches of counterfeit shoes in St. Petersburg and in the Chelyabinsk and Novosibirsk regions. In Novosibirsk, for example, police officials seized 1,338 pairs of shoes that didn’t have the QR codes that became mandatory in Russia on July 1 to help wipe out counterfeit shoes ...
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The online sporting goods market skyrocketed in Russia in 2020
In 2020, online sales of sporting goods in Russia jumped by a factor of 10 as compared to the previous year, according to a research company, OFD. Dumbbells, yoga and fitness mats, resistance bands, and treadmills were particularly popular among Russian customers. Coronavirus-related lockdowns drove a sharp growth in e-commerce ...
