All Marketplaces & E-tailers articles – Page 38

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    Adidas will pump up retail

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Another target is to expand sales through the group's own concept stores at double-digit rates per year. The company runs about 2,900 own stores and wants to add 500 to 600 more stores by 2020, including specialist stores focusing on basketball, running or women, for example.By reducing the number of ...

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    Adidas will adopt a more consumer-focused approach

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Adidas managers said the new focus on consumers will be facilitated by the reorganization of the management structure that was implemented last year, dismantling the previously function-driven organization and giving full responsibility to the managers of each sports category.The group's investments to engage end consumers are to focus on six ...

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    Adidas wants to speed up processes

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The “speed” component of the Adidas Group's new strategic plan is inspired by the business model that the group has adopted for Neo, the fast-fashion label developed by Adidas in the recent years, which reached sales of more than €850 million in 2014. While the entire company has already reduced ...

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    Adidas will be working with one more advertising agency, 72andSunny,...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Adidas will be working with one more advertising agency, 72andSunny, in the important football, running, basketball and women's categories. It will keep working with Carat/Aegis and Johannes Leonardo, the latter remaining the main creative agency for Adidas Originals. With offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 72andSunny counts clients such as ...

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    Adidas sets a €22 billion sales target

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Speed, cities and open sources are some of the key words in “Creating the New,” the five-year strategic plan outlined by managers of the Adidas Group at their investor day conference, which was held at the company's head office in Herzogenaurach last Thursday, March 26.The wide-ranging plan aims to lift ...

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    Zalando moves into the black for the year

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zalando made an annual operating profit at group level for the first time last year, and not only in Germany where it had already become profitable before.According to preliminary figures, the big German-based e-tailer booked an adjusted operating margin (Ebit) of 3.7 percent of sales, before extraordinary items, versus a ...

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    Adidas Group boasts robust underlying performance

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group is eagerly turning the page on a year of ups and downs, when ample gains for the Adidas brand were marred by shrinking sales in its golf business and the weakness of the Russian ruble. A few weeks ago the group had already revealed headline figures for ...

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    Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) last week, claiming that more than 60 percent of the products sold on its Taobao marketplace were fake and that the company was not doing enough to fight counterfeiting. It was even ...

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    Alibaba says it spent one billion renmimbi (€131.9m-$160.8m) in the...

    2014-12-26T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba says it spent one billion renmimbi (€131.9m-$160.8m) in the 12 months ended on Nov. 30 to combat the sale of counterfeited goods online, engaging a task force of more than 2,000 people that will be expanded by a further 200 in the next year. Some 5,400 volunteers have also ...

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    Alibaba Group's share price reached new highs, trading above $115...

    2014-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba Group's share price reached new highs, trading above $115 a share and reaching a market capitalization above $280 billion, after reporting strong results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 and announcing that it generated record sales of $9.3 billion through its marketplaces on Nov. 11 in connection with ...

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    Alibaba gets a high valuation

    2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

    The giant Chinese internet marketplace, which occupies a strong position in the domestic sporting goods market through TMall and other websites, made a triumphant listing on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday. From an initial pricing of $68, Alibaba Group Holding's share shot up to $99.70 and then ...

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    GoPro, Alibaba shake the stock market

    2014-06-30T00:00:00Z

    GoPro went through one of the most successful public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange in recent times. The shares were priced at $24 last Wednesday, at the high end of a previously set range of $21-24, valuing the young American action camera company at $2.96 billion. However, the stock ...

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    Keller Sports, a German-based online retailer specializing in running, fitness...

    2014-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Keller Sports, a German-based online retailer specializing in running, fitness and tennis, has received a new seven-digit financial investment from Christian Mangstl, who co-founded Scout24, a German online marketplace for the sale and purchase of cars, real estate, financial services and other types of items. The additional money will be ...

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    Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly...

    2013-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Keller Sports, an online retailer based in Munich, is reportedly coming out with a dedicated transactional website for the Swiss market. Its German online store already has pages in English, French, Dutch and Spanish. According to a report, the company has customers in 30 countries.