Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 98
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Infographics & Data
The German Sports Retail Market
This interactive chart shows the largest german sports retailers by revenue, total market size 2019, market shares and revenue development vs the previous year. This chart can be downloaded as JPG, PNG or PDF.
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Intersport embarks in retail media in Germany
After two years of preparation, Intersport Germany has launched a new retail media service that allows brands from inside and outside the sporting goods industry to advertise themselves through the offline and online channels of some of its affiliated retail members. The clients will benefit from this new service by ...
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Adidas grants a Corona bonus to all employees
Adidas has announced that it will give a Corona thank you bonus to all the members of its staff of about 60,000 employees around the world for Christmas. Regulations introduced by the German government will make the bonus free of taxes and social charges. The bonus will amount to up ...
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Rapala rolls out 13 Fishing to over 25 countries
Rapala VMS Corporation, the Finnish producer of fishing lures, equipment and tools, has started the international roll-out of an American brand for recreational fishing, 13 Fishing. In July, Rapala acquired 49 percent of the share capital of DQC International Corp., the Florida-based company that owns 13 Fishing. Prior to the ...
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Zalando adds 1 mln clients during Cyber Week
Zalando acquired more than one million new customers during the sixth edition of its Cyber Week, surpassing last year’s new customer record. The gross merchandise volume (GMV) grew by about 35 percent over same the period and some 7,500 orders were placed per minute at peak times. The share of ...
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Sergio Ramos leaves Nike, probably for Adidas
The captain of the Real Madrid football club and the Spanish national football team, Sergio Ramos, has decided not to extend his 10-year deal with Nike. He has now posted a photo on Instagram of him wearing Adidas boots, leading to press speculations that he has signed up with the ...
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VF opens its first multi-brand store
VF Corporation has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and dedicated ...
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Former Zappos head Tony Hsieh dies
Tony Hsieh, who co-founded Zappos.com, the pioneering American footwear and clothing online retailer, and ran it for about two decades, died at the age of 46 due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire in New London, Connecticut. Known for his kindness, generosity and a relentless focus on ...
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New Balance changes distributor for Romania and Bulgaria
Startline, the Greek distributor of New Balance, will also be responsible for Romania and Bulgaria from Jan. 1, taking over the role from the brand’s Turkish distributor, NBI Giyim. The company says that Startline has done a good job for the brand by creating a strong omni-channel business, including nine ...
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Adidas is a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week
Adidas has been announced as a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week (GSW) in Paris. The German sportswear giant joins the other founding partners of the event, which are the French Ministry of Sport, the French banking group BPCE, and EGG Events. The first edition of GSW Paris ...
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A shorter retail lockdown will benefit the trade
Fortunately for European sporting goods retailers, the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears so far to have been more manageable, leading some governments to relax a ban on sales of non-essential products in physical stores after only about one month of enforcement – a lot less than during the ...
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+++ XXL Sports & Outdoor has commissioned a 7,000-square-meter, robotized warehouse for the Austrian market that will open next year in Enzersdorf, near Vienna’s airport +++ Daka Sport, the Dutch retailer, has completed the transformation of four Sportsworld stores it had acquired last year with its new Daka Megastore in ...
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Adidas launches its first road cycling shoe since 2005
Evidently responding to the booming demand for cycling products, Adidas is releasing the Road Cycling Shoe, its first since the launch of the Adistar Road SL over 15 years ago. The upper of the Road Cycling Shoe is made from Primegreen, which the company claims to be a 100 percent ...
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Analysis
Analysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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Dior launches a ski line with Descente and other partners
For the launch of its first men’s capsule ski collection, Dior is opening a pop-up shop in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, specifically at 109 Greene Street. Other pop-ups – in Osaka, Japan, for instance – will open during the month of November. The New York shop, operating ...
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Deporvillage sees a run on indoor cycling
Like many other retailers of sporting goods, Spain’s Deporvillage has experienced a run on fitness items with the onset of new Covid-19 lockdowns and a good autumn/winter season. Stationary bikes have been difficult enough to keep in stock, but never in its decade-long history has the e-tailer seen such demand ...
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Slinger Bag enters India, names media advisor
Slinger Bag, the innovative marketer of portable ball launchers, continues its international drive with a five-year distribution agreement for the Indian market with Racquets4U, a fast-growing specialist e-tailer that is said to be highly rated for the comprehensive marketing and grassroots programs it conducts to help grow the sport of ...
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Oberalp will distribute Falke and Burlington in Italy
The Oberalp Group will take over the distribution of Falke and Burlington for the Italian market from January 2021, raising the number of distributed brands to nine. It may also obtain the distribution of these two brands of socks in other European countries. Founded in 1981 by Heiner Oberrauch, the ...
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Stöckli wants to facilitate ski rentals in Switzerland
Stöckli Swiss Sports will equip its retailer partners in Switzerland with a rental system software developed by an Austrian company, Axess. The Swiss producer claims that this will enable ski rental stores to provide faster service, especially in times of Covid-19, but also there after. As a first step, Axess ...
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Sports Direct to purchase four stores in Spain
In a deal worth €34 million, Frasers Group’s sports banner, Sports Direct, will be purchasing six Toys ‘R’ Us stores in Spain in a sale & leaseback deal. They are located in the cities of Alcobendas (outside Madrid), Sant Boi (outside Barcelona), Granada, Valencia, Málaga and Pamplona. Toys ‘R’ Us ...