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    JD Sports is adding instalment payment options in the...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports is adding instalment payment options in the U.K. with Clearpay technology from Afterpay

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    In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In 2021, online advertising will represent for the first time in history more than half of total ad spending. According to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, web advertising will account for 52 percent of global ad spending, as compared to 44 percent in 2018 and a projected 47 percent in 2019. ...

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    Adidas unveiled the new Adidas by Stella McCartney tennis collection...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Adidas unveiled the new Adidas by Stella McCartney tennis collection ahead of Wimbledon, the legendary tournament. This year's edition of the tournament started on July 1, and will finish on July 14. Alongside McCartney's signature design touches, the 17-piece collection uses innovative materials, such as a synthetic fiber made from ...

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    Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is reinforcing its ties with the German national football team (DFB), of which it has been the sponsor for a long time. The DFB will be training for the 2020 European Football Championship (Uefa Euro 2020) at World of Sports, Adidas' headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Preceding the announcement was a ...

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    The associations of Swiss sports brands and retailers, Spaf and...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The associations of Swiss sports brands and retailers, Spaf and Asmas, are organizing a second “Sport Business Network Day” for June 9, 2020

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    Adidas loses a court fight over its Three Stripes

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    The General Court of the European Union decided today to uphold a previous decision made by the European Intellectual Property Office (Euipo) that nullified a three-stripe trademark that Adidas had registered in 2014 for clothing, footwear and headgear. The news led to a drop of more than 2 percent in ...

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    11teamsports buys into a similar Czech retailer

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    11teamsports, the German multi-channel retailer, has taken control of Top4Sport, a similar Czech-based sporting goods retailer, by acquiring a 51 percent stake in the company on June 1. The takeover is expanding the group's presence in other parts of Europe. Up to now, 11teamsports was only represented in Germany, Austria, ...

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    Adidas and Nike back women’s football

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed up as a founding partner of United for Girls, a new initiative from the U.S. Soccer Foundation aimed at increasing opportunities for girls and women from underserved communities to play football. Adidas' participation in United for Girls is part of the brand's “She Breaks Barriers” initiative to ...

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    XXL ASA, the highly leveraged Norwegian-based sports retailer, says it...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    XXL ASA, the highly leveraged Norwegian-based sports retailer, says it has agreed on a new covenant with its bank consortium for its third-quarter results. Last February, it had renegotiated covenants for the first and second quarters of this year. The covenant for the third quarter sets a debt/Ebitda target of ...

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    The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazilian e-tailer specializing...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazilian e-tailer specializing in athletic footwear, has ended. Its shareholders approved on Friday Magazine Luiza's latest improved offer of $3.70 a share, valuing the company at $115 million. The Brazilian omni-channel retailer had initially made a bid for Netshoes at $2.00 per share, ...

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    Atmósfera Sport, a major Spanish buying group with more than...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Atmósfera Sport, a major Spanish buying group with more than 250 affiliated sporting goods stores, has made various investments in digital marketing and logistics in the past few weeks. It has hired half a dozen new employees to help stimulate the online sales of its retail members. It has also ...

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    Like Intersport, the Tréndico Group – formerly Twinner Iberia –...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Like Intersport, the Tréndico Group – formerly Twinner Iberia – intends to set up shop in Portugal by next year. The Spanish group opened one of its lifestyle-oriented Foot on Mars stores on 250 square meters in the British colony of Gibraltar in May and plans to inaugurate e-commerce for ...

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    Go Sport has opened its first two stores in India,...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Go Sport has opened its first two stores in India, following a master franchise agreement signed at the end of 2017 with the Lulu Group. The two units are a store of 1,200 square meters in Mumbai and another one measuring 1,000 m² in Bangalore.

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    Under Armour plans to open its first store in the...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Under Armour plans to open its first store in the Nordic countries in September. It will be located in Stockholm's Mall of Scandinavia, which is right next to the Swedish National football stadium, Friends Arena. At a little over 200 square meters, the store will display the breadth of the ...

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    NikeLab and the designer Virgil Abloh have launched the Chicago...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    NikeLab and the designer Virgil Abloh have launched the Chicago Re-Creation Center at 673 de N. Michigan Avenue. Slated to run during the summer, from May 31 to July 28, this “cultural hub” is intended to provide mentorships and workshops for the young in Abloh's hometown as well as exclusive ...

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    Blue Tomato, the omni-channel boardsports retailer, is planning to open...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Blue Tomato, the omni-channel boardsports retailer, is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar shop in Scandinavia, according to sport-guide.com. The Austrian-based retailer, which is a subsidiary of the Zumiez group, already sells online in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Blue Tomato is also planning to open a store in Amsterdam in ...

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    Uniqlo will inaugurate its first Italian physical store on September...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Uniqlo will inaugurate its first Italian physical store on September 13. Until now, the brand's Italian presence was online only. The 1,500 shop, on three floors, will be located in Milan's Piazza Cordusio, at walking distance from Piazza Duomo. The Japanese brand opened a 2,040-square-meter shop in Amsterdam last October, ...

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    Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...

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    Nike plans to open its first European House of Innovation...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Nike plans to open its first European House of Innovation in Paris, at 79 avenue des Champs-Elysées, in December

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    Rossignol has reopened its concept store in Aspen, Colorado, which...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Rossignol has reopened its concept store in Aspen, Colorado, which was originally planned as a winter pop-up shop, adding bicycles and warm weather apparel and shoes