Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 154
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Fanatics, the leading American supplier of licensed sports merchandise, has...
Fanatics, the leading American supplier of licensed sports merchandise, has appointed Steve Davis, a global e-commerce veteran, as president of Fanatics International. He was formerly the chief executive of a digital fast-fashion retailer, Rue La La. His task will be to expand the company's vertical retailing model into a global ...
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Decathlon is planning to open new stores in the downtown...
Decathlon is planning to open new stores in the downtown areas of Brussels, Dresden and Munich. They will use to some extent the new urban Decathlon City format, concentrating on only a few product categories and complementing them with online purchases from its website. Focusing on cycling, running and fitness, ...
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Skiset, the French-based ski rental company, has developed an online...
Skiset, the French-based ski rental company, has developed an online foot scanning tool, Scanfeet, which should make it easier for customers to book ski boots precisely adjusted to the size and shape of their feet. Scanfeet uses 3D images of the customer's feet to analyze five key points about the ...
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De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports...
De Skihut op Scheveningen, a famous retailer of winter sports products located in the eponymous Dutch sea resort, was declared bankrupt but was then quickly rescued by Retail Investments Beilen, reports Quote, a Dutch business magazine. The publication worked out that nearly all of the shares in Retail Investments Beilen ...
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United Brands, one of the leading independent retailers in Belgium...
United Brands, one of the leading independent retailers in Belgium with sales reported at €29.1 million last year, closed down four of its stores and launched financial restructuring proceedings in July. The company's management is preparing to present a debt restructuring plan to the relevant court in November, expecting to ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) is closing down four out of...
Sports Direct International (SDI) is closing down four out of its nine concessions in Debenhams department stores, Bloomberg reported last week, but the company said this was due to overlaps with current or future flagship stores, rather than any underlying issues with the concessions. SDI owns a stake of 21.01 ...
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Ski Market in Madrid is warning its customers that they...
Ski Market in Madrid is warning its customers that they will now be charged if they take advantage of testing and advice services in-store without buying the product, as these services do have a cost for the retailer. The practice of examining merchandise in a traditional brick-and-mortar retail store and ...
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Sport-Guide.com reports that a Patagonia store in Grenoble is to...
Sport-Guide.com reports that a Patagonia store in Grenoble is to shut down around the end of October. The store has been open for several years but the owner apparently struggled to reach a sustainable level of sales, which he blamed on the lack of international tourists in Grenoble. The closure ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is opening its first Dutch...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is opening its first Dutch branded store in Amersfoort, in the center of the Netherlands, to sell the Regatta and Dare2Be brands
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Moncler has opened a 180-square-meter store in the Esentai Mall...
Moncler has opened a 180-square-meter store in the Esentai Mall of Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan
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François Neukirch, a former top manager of Decathlon and Go...
François Neukirch, a former top manager of Decathlon and Go Sport who recenlty ran Intersport France, has officially inaugurated a prestigious a 3,000 square meter Intersport store opened about two months ago at Herblay, near Paris
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Adidas has opened the world's largest Adidas Originals store in...
Adidas has opened the world's largest Adidas Originals store in Chicago, covering 460 square meters in Wicker Park
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Lotto Sport Italia has opened a mono-brand store at Vicolo...
Lotto Sport Italia has opened a mono-brand store at Vicolo Barberia 19 in the heart of Treviso, close to its head office
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Fusalp has opened a store at 155 Boulevard Saint-Germain in...
Fusalp has opened a store at 155 Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris
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Canada Goose has launched e-commerce in Germany
Canada Goose has launched e-commerce in Germany
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Rip Curl has opened a store in Canggu, Bali...
Rip Curl has opened a store in Canggu, Bali
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Women's Wear Daily reports that Adidas has shelved a suit...
Women's Wear Daily reports that Adidas has shelved a suit against Juicy Couture in an Oregon court over the Three Stripes logo, following a settlement whose terms were not revealed
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According to numerous press reports that Adidas declined to confirm,...
According to numerous press reports that Adidas declined to confirm, the Big a will stop sponsoring AC Milan in 2018 or 2019, after the expiration of a 20-year-old contract that pays the strong Italian Series A football club €19.7 million per year. Under Armour and New Balance are said to ...
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Erik Liedtke, the executive board member of the Adidas Group...
Erik Liedtke, the executive board member of the Adidas Group responsible for global brands, has won the Chief Marketing Officer of the Year award from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He took over the responsibility in 2014 after running Adidas' sport performance division.
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Alibaba has announced it plans to invest RMB 100 billion,...
Alibaba has announced it plans to invest RMB 100 billion, the equivalent of around $15 billion, over the next three years in a new global research and development program called Alibaba DAMO Academy. The acronym stands for “Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook.” The academy will start by launching research labs in ...