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11teamsports, the German multi-channel retailer, is expanding its network of...
11teamsports, the German multi-channel retailer, is expanding its network of stores. On Feb. 1, at the C23 shopping center, 11teamsports opened its first store in Vienna, which is its sixth in Austria. The store, which covers 330 square meters, offers a wide selection of soccer shirts, soccer shoes and equipment for ...
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Mammut is collaborating with Braun Hamburg, a German retailer of...
Mammut is collaborating with Braun Hamburg, a German retailer of luxury brands like Bottega Veneta, Moncler, Maison Margiela and Santoni. Braun is now managed by a third generation of the Braun family in the person of Lars Braun. It runs two stores in Hamburg, which opened in 1933 and 1976, ...
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At the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, running from Jan. 30...
At the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, running from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 in Denver, the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), Snowsports Industries America (SIA) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) announced that they were forming the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership. This is the first broad coalition of trade groups ...
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The WTO will tackle e-commerce
Geo-blocking, selective distribution and other issues related to e-commerce have already been tackled by organizations like the German Cartel Office and the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), which has a working group together with the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) on such topics.
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Adidas launches its new Parisian platform for start-ups
Adidas has announced the launch of “Platform A,” its new sports accelerator program, located at the Paris-based start-up campus Station F. The company said it is investing €1 million in the development of the initiative. Platform A brings together 13 start-ups that have been selected to work with Adidas on ...
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Adidas and Foot Locker call on consumers to design shoes
Adidas and Foot Locker are collaborating on a go-to-market plan that allows consumers to help create footwear with a local flavor. The plan takes inspiration from three themes: speed, cities and the open-source ideal of the computing world, where the raw code is public, free and open to changes by ...
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Bründl Sports, one of the major Austrian sports retailers, has...
Bründl Sports, one of the major Austrian sports retailers, has decided to stop working with Intersport Austria, starting next Sept. 1. It has already announced the divorce by removing the Intersport Bründl name from its website, after almost 50 years of collaboration. The reason for the separation is a desire ...
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Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like...
Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like the original name of the company, to serve as a community space for runners in Santa Monica, California. First opened in 1967 by Nike's first employee, the original Blue Ribbon Sports store served as a hang-out for so-called “oddball athletes.” ...
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Trerè Innovation has opened its first store under its new...
Trerè Innovation has opened its first store under its new UYN (Unleash Your Nature) brand in Paris. It replaces a store that the Italian high-end knitter had opened for X-Bionic, with which it had an exclusive manufacturing and distribution deal in Europe. Three more UYN stores and a new shop-in-shop ...
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Li Ning is said to be one of several foreign...
Li Ning is said to be one of several foreign brands that are planning to open their first stores in Russia in 2019. The Chinese brand plans to open between 15 and 20 stores in the country, focusing primarily on Moscow and St. Petersburg, the company had said in a ...
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Decathlon is planning to open a distribution center in Switzerland...
Decathlon is planning to open a distribution center in Switzerland to service its growing network of stores in the country
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Columbia will open a flagship store on London's Carnaby Street...
Columbia will open a flagship store on London's Carnaby Street
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Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop...
Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop of 1.4 percent to 34.6 percent in its gross margin for the first quarter of its financial year, ended on Nov. 30. The Japanese retailer's net loss expanded to 195 million yen (€1.56m-$1.78m) from ¥48 million in the year-ago period. ...
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Spanish sporting goods retailers achieved a growth of 5.4% in...
Spanish sporting goods retailers achieved a growth of 5.4% in their sales in 2018 according to an estimate by DBK, a Spanish consultancy
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Puma and Blends, a California-based retailer of sneakers and apparel,...
Puma and Blends, a California-based retailer of sneakers and apparel, have collaborated on a new edition of the Cell Endura, a Puma sneaker originally sold in the 1990s. The upper is made of mesh and polyurethane-coated leather with metallic silver overlays and a color fade. The midsole has Puma's Cell ...
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Size?, the UK-based retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is...
Size?, the UK-based retailer owned by JD Sports Fashion, is releasing a new exclusive sneaker with Adidas Originals for its Archive capsule: the “Beer” Kegler Super. Paying homage to the brewing traditions of Bavaria, the sneaker is an update of the Kegler Super of 1979, which was designed for Kegeln, ...
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Adidas is doubling the number of sneakers it makes from...
Adidas is doubling the number of sneakers it makes from ocean plastic this year, expecting to turn out 11 million pairs in cooperation with Parley for the Oceans. Adidas projected sales of about five million pairs of such Parley shoes in 2018, up from one million in 2017. The sporting goods ...
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New owners, new team for flash-sale e-tailer
Born in 2010 and based in the Southern French city of Montpellier, Private Sport Shop (PSS) claims to have become the only leading destination in Europe for flash sales of discounted performance-oriented sports products, contributing the bulk of an online turnover that grew by about 20 percent to around €100 ...
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Adidas has announced the start of the second tranche of...
Adidas has announced the start of the second tranche of a multi-year share buyback program launched last March. The group plans to repurchase around €800 million worth of its own shares during 2019. It already spent last year €1 billion to buy back 5.1 million shares, corresponding to 2.5 percent ...
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Zalando's depressed share price went up by 6.1% following renewed...
Zalando's depressed share price went up by 6.1% following renewed speculation that the Alibaba Group may make a bid for the German-based e-tailer
