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Zalando expands its partnership program
Zalando has reportedly doubled the sales generated by its brand partnership programs in the last year, enabling brands to take advantage of Europe's leading online fashion retailing platform to sell extra products.The German company sells about 2,000 brands in 15 European countries, buying products and delivering them from its warehouses. ...
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Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of...
Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of products in the German market directly from its head office in France. By mutual agreement, Major will part ways with MTS Sportartikel Vertriebs as its German distributor, after 25 years of collaboration. Mark Holldorf, who worked for Tecnifibre at MTS, ...
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Amplifi Coalition, a partner of Active Brands from Norway, has...
Amplifi Coalition, a partner of Active Brands from Norway, has assumed the distribution of the Bula brand in Germany and Austria from the autumn/winter 2018/19 order season. As previously reported, Active Brands bought in 2016 the rights for the Bula brand all over Europe, including Russia. Amplifi Coalition is a ...
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DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the...
DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the Intu Metrocentre of Gateshead. The chain has more than 90 stores all over the U.K. It's part of the DW Fitness First Group, which also operates 120 gyms.
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SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that...
SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that it is in line to book a sales increase of 2 percent for the financial year ending next Feb. 28, after suffering a drop of 8.8 percent to €291 million in the previous year. The engine of the growth has ...
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Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital...
Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital of Norway, nearly two years after it was first reported that the American retailer would do so. The store is not significantly different from Foot Locker stores elsewhere in the world. It is located on the popular shopping street of ...
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JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install...
JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags in more than 200 stores all over Europe, in partnership with Agon Systems. A test conducted by tagging garments in the U.K., France and the Netherlands has apparently led to a reduction of up to ...
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CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of...
CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of JD stores was opened in Spain this year. After openings in the shopping center of La Cañada in Marbella and the shopping center of Mataró Park in Mataró earlier this month, the number of openings has reached 14, to form ...
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Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich...
Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich with the Forever Faster concept, which has already been adopted by six other European stores, from London, Berlin and Prague to Antwerp, Madrid and Herzogenaurach, the German town where Puma has its head office. The Munich store sells wide ranges ...
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The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to...
The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to enable customers to try on boots in a virtual Champions League game between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. For three days earlier this month, at the renovated Adidas flagship store in Paris, customers wearing VR goggles and sensors on their ...
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Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its...
Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its own flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue, located near 57th Street and covering 2,035 square feet
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One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space...
One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space of 40,000 square feet, has just opened in the Liverpool One shopping center, featuring an area especially dedicated to football fans
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Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public,...
Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public, will open next year its second women's store, covering 7,200 square feet in Manchester's Arndale Center
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Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the...
Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the spring, located on Boulevard Saint Germain, according to sportguide.com
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Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten...
Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten years, has re-opened a store of about 100 square meters in Snell, a famous sports store in Chamonix, using the New Zealand merino wool specialist's latest retail concept and displaying a full range of adventure, training and lifestyle products
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Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design...
Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design & Manufacturing, one of Forever 21's suppliers, in a trademark case claiming that Forever 21, a Los-Angeles based fast-fashion retailer, had violated trademark law by using Adidas' three-stripe mark. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. The lawsuit, ...
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Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian...
Adidas has signed a ball sponsorship contract with the Austrian Football Association for three years, starting with the 2018/19 season
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World Cup qualifiers favor Adidas and Nike
Adidas has taken an early lead in the World Cup, at least in terms of the number of teams to be outfitted by the German brand, after the last qualifications for the finals were played last week.With eleven teams to wear the Three stripes, Adidas is slightly ahead of Nike ...
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Alibaba breaks new records
Alibaba hit a new record with its Singles Day shopping festival on Nov. 11, generating sales of $25.3 billion, 40 percent above the score reached a year ago. The event is a much bigger replica of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions that are becoming common in the Western ...
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Zalando posts a loss as sales rocket, investments continue
Zalando recorded a net loss of €11.1 million for the third quarter, compared with net income of €5 million for the year-ago quarter. The adjusted operating profit (Ebit) before non-operating one-time effects fell to €400,000 from €19.5 million.The company had warned last month that it might post a loss in ...
