Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 173
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Adidas has launched its first line of shoes with Gore-Tex...
Adidas has launched its first line of shoes with Gore-Tex Surround technology. Ecco and Lowa have expanded their own ranges of casual Gore-Tex Surround shoes. The new breathable technology is now embedded in more than 350 models of shoes by 52 brands around the world.
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Nike and Adidas will both sponsor the 2016 International Gay...
Nike and Adidas will both sponsor the 2016 International Gay and Lesbian Football Association World Championship, which will take place in Portland, Oregon on Aug. 6-13. Adidas' U.S. headquarters is located in Portland while Nike's corporate headquarters is located nearby, in Beaverton. The championships, which is expected to attract around ...
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Adidas agrees to €200 million extension of its DFB deal
While Adidas is battling it out with Nike and other brands on the sidelines of the European football championships, it has bagged an agreement to extend its partnership with the German football federation (DFB) for four years until 2022, at a cost of about €50 million per year.The agreed annual ...
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Adidas reclaims European football market lead
Adidas claims that it has taken the lead in the European market for football shoes and that it should reach a new record turnover of €2.5 billion in the football category this year, up from €2.2 billion in 2015. This would be more than twice the sales that the company ...
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Rolf Reinschmidt, who has driven the Adidas brand's business in...
Rolf Reinschmidt, who has driven the Adidas brand's business in the outdoor market since 2007, has relinquished this leadership role to become an internal consultant in the Adidas brand team from the start of June. Reinschmidt will not be replaced as outdoor general manager because the division was integrated into ...
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Diadora has divided its distribution in the Nordic region. A...
Diadora has divided its distribution in the Nordic region. A Norwegian company, Wenaas, will now only be the distributor of the Italian company's performance footwear range for running, cycling, tennis and football. Selected Brands, the big Swedish distributor based in Gothenburg, will take care of Diadora's lifestyle segments throughout the ...
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Altra Footwear, the U.S. brand of zero-drop running footwear, has...
Altra Footwear, the U.S. brand of zero-drop running footwear, has teamed up with the Outdoor and Sports Company (OSC) for its distribution in the U.K. and Ireland, starting from the beginning of July. OSC is the British company that sells the Ronhill running apparel brand, among others. Altra was previously ...
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Bucher + Walt will be the new Swiss distributor of...
Bucher + Walt will be the new Swiss distributor of Globe from July 1, taking the place of Dac Sport
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Glassing Monkey will be the European distributor of Aloha Surfboards,...
Glassing Monkey will be the European distributor of Aloha Surfboards, an Australian brand founded in 1978
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JD Sports Fashion is planning to open its second Swedish...
JD Sports Fashion is planning to open its second Swedish store in the autumn. Covering 771 square meters, it will be located in Stockholm's Kista Galleria. The British retailing group says it is positioned to deliver an excellent result for the first half of its financial year, running through to ...
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Go Sport has launched an updated version of its e-commerce...
Go Sport has launched an updated version of its e-commerce website go-sport.com. The site has been fully redesigned and navigation has been improved for tablets and other mobile devices. In France e-commerce sales from mobile devices increased by 39 percent in 2015. The new version of the go-sport.com site features ...
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Soloporteros, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain with 12 stores,...
Soloporteros, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain with 12 stores, changes its name to Fútbol Emotion. Soloporteros (in English: only for goalkeepers) previously concentrated on offering products for a distinctive group of customers. Today, the Spanish chain offers products for all kinds of football players and other people active in ...
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Intersport U.K. is preparing to launch a new online store...
Intersport U.K. is preparing to launch a new online store to support the physical stores affiliated with the buying group across the country. The new Intersport.co.uk website is chiefly meant to raise brand awareness and to showcase sports performance products. The search function will allow visitors to check out the ...
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced a new partnership...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced a new partnership with the Al Mana Fashion Group for the opening of the first two NBA Stores in the Middle East. The shops are set to open in Doha, Qatar, during the 2016-17 NBA season. Additional NBA Stores will open in Saudi ...
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Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...
Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...
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Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store...
Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store in a Spanish airport. Called Base Bazar Sport, it takes up 300 square meters of space in the airport of Grand Canaria, one of the Canary Islands.
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Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store...
Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store in London's Carnaby Street and to move it to another unspecified location. The British company also has two outlet stores in the U.K., in addition to its web shop.
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Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000...
Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000 square meters on Piazza Pattari in downtown Milan
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About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes...
About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes were seized by customs at the port of Hamburg. The unbranded shoes came from China and were intended for sale online. Although they were unbranded, they violated trademark law as the design was found to be the same of that ...
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Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit...
Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit products are often of a better quality and are cheaper than the genuine articles, complicating the effort to fight counterfeiting on the country's largest e-commerce websites. The declarations, reported by Bloomberg and other media outlets, were made by the tycoon ...