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Marcolin puts out high-tech Adidas snow goggles
As the new licensee for Adidas eyewear, the Marcolin Group has announced the availability of two Adidas Terrex Snow Goggle models, each with a different lens and both made in Italy. The E-SUNTM VARIATM lens on the SP0039 has a toric shape and adjusts in less than 40 seconds to ...
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ABG to handle Nordic e-tail for Rehband
The Active Brands Group Scandinavia (ABG) of Sweden has been handling the distribution in the Nordic and Baltic countries for a Swedish brand of knee sleeves and other compression gear, Rehband, since June. It is now taking charge of Rehband’s regional e-commerce operations as well, with a website that is ...
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Zalando acquires producer of 3D virtual bodies
Zalando has acquired Fision, the Swiss producer of a body-scanning app and virtual dressing room. The Swiss company’s system creates 3D virtual bodies and clothing models on a platform called meepl. The Berlin-based European e-tailer already uses customer histories on purchases and returns to generate advice on sizes for 50 ...
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Alibaba takes control of Auchan's Chinese grocery chain
Alibaba Group Holding is investing about $3.6 billion in the Sun Art Retail Group, which operates hypermarkets and supermarkets in China. Sun Art’s current chief executive, Peter Huang, will be taking on the additional post of chairman. The deal will raise Alibaba’s stake in Sun Art to about 72 percent. ...
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Shimano adjusts the distribution in Belgium and the Nordics
Shimano Belgium and Lazer Sport will relocate to a new office in Mechelen, Belgium as of July 1, 2021. Shimano Belgium is a subsidiary of Shimano Benelux while Lazer designs bicycle helmets in Belgium and markets these products globally. While sharing the new facilities, Shimano Belgium and Lazer Sport will ...
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Fanatics partners with The British & Irish Lions
Fanatics, the international specialist in licensed sports merchandise, has announced a new manufacturing and e-commerce deal with The British & Irish Lions, the rugby union team made up of players from any of the Home Nations, i.e. the national teams of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Fanatics has agreed to ...
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Sport 2000 expands in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Sport 2000 Austria reports that A3 Sport, a major sporting goods retailer with an online store and 75 physical shops in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has joined the retail organization. Most of the stores will be rebranded with a dual logo. The buying group says that the partnership will ...
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+++ The Russian-based Sportmaster Group denies a report that its newly acquired Danish Sportmaster subsidiary is shutting down its seven Rezet sneaker stores +++ Adidas Originals has opened a flagship store in London’s trendy Carnaby Street, featuring some exclusive product releases +++
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AnalysisAnalysis: The 10 major European sports retailers online
The online retail business in the sporting goods sector has been growing stronger and stronger in recent years, find out which players are the real winners.
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Decathlon opens a shop-in-shop at Auchan in Orléans
Decathlon has inaugurated its first shop-in-shop in collaboration with the Auchan chain of hypermarkets. Both retail banners are controlled by the Mulliez family and many of their stores in certain countries are located in the same shopping malls. The new Decathlon shop-in-shop is located at the Auchan hypermarket in Saint-Jean ...
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Blue Tomato expands in Finland
Blue Tomato is opening its second and third stores in Finland, a country where many customers have been ordering from its website for many years. The Austrian-based action sports retailer owned by Zumiez started working offline there a year ago with a shop in Helsinki. New ones will follow in ...
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Adidas holds digital festival for loyalty program members
Adidas has launched a “digital festival” for its loyalty program. Creators Club Week runs for seven days from Oct. 13 and is, according to the company, the first event of its kind. Adidas’ “global member community” will be privy to the company’s largest single introduction of exclusive and limited-edition ...
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eBay to certify sneakers, like StockX and others
Joining the likes of StockX, the online resale exchange for sneakers and streetwear, eBay will be testing all new and used sneakers sold on its platform in the U.S for $100 or more from this month onward to ensure that they are genuine. Those that pass will receive its Authenticity ...
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News briefsBurton opens new Hub in Stockholm, appoints new managers for the Nordics
Burton Snowboards will open a new multi-use space, referred to as the Burton Hub, at Norrlandsgatan 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 15. After establishing the concept of combining retail store, showroom, and office spaces already in Innsbruck, Munich, and Zurich, the company now expands to Scandinavia. The new Burton ...
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Zalando raises its own expectations
Zalando is performing better than expected. It is now projecting an adjusted operating profit (Ebit) of between €375 million and €425 million for the full 2020 financial year on an increase in total revenues of between 20 and 22 percent. As usual, the growth will be driven by an increase ...
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4F emerges in Ukraine
One of the major Polish sports apparel brands, 4F, has emerged on the Ukrainian market by opening its first store in the country through Epicenter K, which has become 4F’s exclusive partner in the country. The first store is located in Kiev, and by the end of 2020, Epicenter plans ...
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Foot Locker partners with Adyen for online and in-store payments
Foot Locker is expanding its relationship with Adyen to various markets internationally for in-store and online payments. The international athletic footwear retailer has been working with Adyen since 2018. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Adyen has offices across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
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Tecnica goes partly direct in the U.K.
After 17 years of collaboration, the Tecnica Group has decided to stop working with a distributor in the U.K. and Ireland for the Blizzard, Tecnica and Nordica brands, using sales agents instead. The current distributor, TKC Sales, will deliver the autumn/winter 2020 collections as planned, with the exception of the ...
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Infographics & DataRanking - The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe
This exclusive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by website visitors. Included are sporting goods retailer and e-tailer. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Covid boosted online sales of sports goods in Spain
A survey that IAB Spain and Elogia conducted online in June of this year suggests that 15 percent of Spanish e-commerce consumers, aged 16 to 70, purchased sporting goods during the coronavirus quarantines. Streaming services also drew 15 percent. The product of choice, however, was food (48%), followed by household ...
