Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 141
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Fila has opened its first store in Mumbai, India...
Fila has opened its first store in Mumbai, India
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Woolrich, a company in which Goldwin retains a minority stake,...
Woolrich, a company in which Goldwin retains a minority stake, has opened its second Japanese store in Aoyama, after a recent opening in Sapporo
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Adidas has announced a voluntary recall of kids' swimwear products...
Adidas has announced a voluntary recall of kids' swimwear products of the Infinitex 3-Stripe range. The recalled swimwear products were sold as part of the 2017 and 2018 collections in both youth and adult sizes through adidas.com, Adidas retail stores and at authorized Adidas dealers globally. The Adidas 3-stripes trademark ...
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Reports indicate that Adidas is going to again become the...
Reports indicate that Adidas is going to again become the sponsor of the Arsenal football club in the U.K. for the next five years, taking the place of Puma at the end of the current five-year contract. Adidas had been Arsenal's sponsors until 1993. As for Puma, the brand is ...
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Snowleader, the French omni-channel retailer based in Annecy, has partnered...
Snowleader, the French omni-channel retailer based in Annecy, has partnered with a publisher, Nivéales, to produce a magazine on mountaineering. The 52-page magazine will be packed in with all the information of Snowleader's offerings online and be available free of charge at its brick-and-mortar stores. The initiative aims to inspire ...
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Adidas has extended its eight-year-old sponsorship contract with the French...
Adidas has extended its eight-year-old sponsorship contract with the French Olympique Lyonnais football club until 2025
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Adidas has a signed a sponsorship deal with the Real...
Adidas has a signed a sponsorship deal with the Real Kashmir football club, which plays in India's first division
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British retailers in auction for Evans Cycles
JD Sports Fashion and Sports Direct International (SDI) are both reported to have tabled indicative offers for Evans Cycles, a British bicycle retailer with about 60 stores. Sky News reported this week that the two British-based sports retailers would compete in the sale with Halfords, another British cycling specialist, and ...
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Started in Detroit just two years ago as a marketplace...
Started in Detroit just two years ago as a marketplace for second-hand sneakers, Stockx has secured $44 million from GV and Battery Ventures, with the stated purpose of expanding its business in international markets. Tech Crunch reports that the company has grown to more than $2 million in daily transactions ...
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Fischer is no longer going to distribute Swix' products in...
Fischer is no longer going to distribute Swix' products in Russia, where it is particularly strong, after the upcoming winter season. The decision follows Fischer's recent acquisition of One Way Sport, the Finnish producer of ski poles. The Swix Sport Group will set up its own subsidiary in Russia, ODO ...
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The Rossignol Group is taking full control of the distribution...
The Rossignol Group is taking full control of the distribution of its winter sports brands in Denmark, compensating the two wholesale distributors for the work that they have put into building up its brands in the country. One of them, Playground, was responsible for the Rossignol brand. The other one, ...
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K2 Sports has signed up a new agency, Black Peak...
K2 Sports has signed up a new agency, Black Peak Trading, to cover the U.K. and Ireland for the K2, Ride, Line and Full Tilt brands. The respective lines were previously distributed by K2 UK, which was part of Pure Fishing and remained with its new parent company, Newell Brands. ...
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Marsure Sports has decided to stop the distribution of the...
Marsure Sports has decided to stop the distribution of the Varlion brand of paddle tennis racquets in Spain and the rest of Europe. The brand was acquired by a group of Swiss investors two years ago.
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While working on a new Absolute Run store format for...
While working on a new Absolute Run store format for specialty retailers, Sport 2000 International is offering the Absolute brand to sports retailers in all the countries in which it has retail members. The Absolute concept has been developed by a strategic working group comprising five national organizations, called Sport ...
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The general assembly of the retail members of Sport 2000...
The general assembly of the retail members of Sport 2000 France held on Sept. 27 reportedly validated the new potential offer issued by the cooperative to take over a share of 52 percent in the buying group . This stake is currently held by Activa Capital, a French-based investment firm. ...
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JD Sprinter intends to absorb Sport Zone España, based on...
JD Sprinter intends to absorb Sport Zone España, based on a filing in the commercial register reported by Moda.es. The entity that manages the Sprinter and JD stores in Spain has started integrating Sport Zone's operations in the country, after the owners of Sport Zone and JD Sprinter formed the ...
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JD Sports Fashion is raising the surface of its store...
JD Sports Fashion is raising the surface of its store in the Bluewater shopping mall near London from 9,544 to 18,966 square feet. Digitalization is the big buzzword in retailing right now, but as Fashionmagazine.com has noted, Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the U.K.-based retail group, made an interesting statement ...
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XXL has introduced the Klarna in-store payment system, a service...
XXL has introduced the Klarna in-store payment system, a service that gives customers the opportunity to split their payment into instalments, postpone it or pay all at once, all by telephone. The new payment system will be rolled out in all of XXL's 77 stores in the Nordic countries during ...
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The North American basketball league (NBA) and EPI have announced...
The North American basketball league (NBA) and EPI have announced plans to open the first European NBA store. The store will be located in Milan at Galleria Passarella, a few steps from Piazza San Babila, in the city center. The opening is scheduled to take place during the 2018/19 season, ...
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Lululemon will be opening a new store at the Royal...
Lululemon will be opening a new store at the Royal Exchange shopping mall in Manchester this autumn. The Canadian brand and retailer, specializing in technical clothes for yoga and running, already has a small showroom on the nearby Saint Anns Place, where it hosts sports events for runners. Also in ...
