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Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor...
Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor of the Dubai Mall. The 3,500-square-meter store in the capital of the United Arab Emirates has a small basketball court. It features a women's salon, NikePlus enhancements and customization facilities for shoes and apparel. The opening in Dubai follows last ...
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Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store...
Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store in Beijing, originally planned for Dec. 15, justifying the move with delays in construction. No new date was given. Observers felt that the suspension was linked to the arrest on Dec. 1 of Meng Wanzhou, the financial director of Huawei, ...
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Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has...
Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has opened its sixth Parisian store. It is located in 177 rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris' 1st district and not far from the Louvre museum. The store, designed by Dillon Garris, sells the women's, men's and children's collections of the brand, alongside ...
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Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased...
Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased its revenue from e-mail marketing by 28 percent by harvesting its existing customer data. According to the company, a recent test showed that its cost per click had been cut by 75 percent. Looking for ways to direct customers to ...
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UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched...
UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched its web store, addressing customers in 47 countries, with others due to follow soon. The brand, which stands for Unleash Your Nature, was launched last year by Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works also for Armani and ...
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Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium...
Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium
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Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in...
Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in the downtown area of Zurich
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Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in...
Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in the main European countries, the Norwegian sporting goods industry association, Norsk Sportsbransjeforening, is sharing with us some additional figures that show the estimated share of online sales in the market. They indicate that internet sales of sporting goods were worth ...
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Adidas has taken Rafinha to court in Amsterdam, according to...
Adidas has taken Rafinha to court in Amsterdam, according to The Mirror, demanding that the Barcelona midfielder should pay a penalty of €100,000 for each day that he doesn't wear Adidas shoes in the field and Adidas apparel at all media appearances. The 25-year-old Brazilian football player, whose real name ...
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Adidas is partnering with Foot Locker to launch the new...
Adidas is partnering with Foot Locker to launch the new Adidas Asterisk Collective, a platform empowering creative partners to propose initiatives that aim to positively impact communities all over the world. To celebrate the launch, the two companies tapped three musicians – Kid Cudi, Raury and H.E.R. – as well ...
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Adidas has entered into a “perpetual, legacy partnership” with Stan...
Adidas has entered into a “perpetual, legacy partnership” with Stan Smith, the two-time Grand Slam tennis champion whose career lasted from 1969 to 1985. Adidas first collaborated with Smith on a famous shoe style in 1973 and is now releasing an updated version, with leather upper, rubber cupsole and white ...
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Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019...
Outdoor Retailer has announced that all three shows in 2019 will only last three days. The Summer Market in June and the Winter Market in November will move from four days to three, while the Snow Show in January remains a three-day event. All three shows will take place at ...
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Sportiv, a new premium sports retailer in Russia
A group of Russian investors has officially opened the first store under the banner of a new sporting goods retail chain, called Sportiv, in Moscow. Until the end of 2018 new stores are slated to be opened in the biggest shopping centers of the Russian capital, according to the Arendator ...
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As expected, the retailers affiliated with Sport 2000 in France...
As expected, the retailers affiliated with Sport 2000 in France approved their acquisition of the 52 percent stake held by Activa Capital in their company at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on Nov. 22. Supported by bank loans, the retailers will finance the acquisition in different ways, changing the status of ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
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Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new...
Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new mono-brand store in Japan, its largest in-mall store in the country. The new 264-square-meter store, on two floors, is located in Fukuoka Momochi, the largest commercial facility in western Japan. The store, which was inaugurated on Nov. 21, sells Arc'teryx's ...
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Bogner, the German luxury sports brand, has expanded into China,...
Bogner, the German luxury sports brand, has expanded into China, where it has opened its first franchise space. The store is located in the Thaiwoo ski resort, northwest of Beijing and a three-hour drive from China's capital city. The shop will be open seven days a week. Thaiwoo will play ...
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In December, with a soft launch scheduled for the 21st,...
In December, with a soft launch scheduled for the 21st, Rossignol is set to open its first American pop-up store at the Benton building in Aspen, Colorado. It will be a seasonal concept store with a decor recalling both Rossignol's 110-year history in winter sports and its rooster logo. The ...
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Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...
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El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the...
El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the Alibaba Group, covering cloud computing, trading, logistics and smart payments. The Spanish department store chain, which is a major player in the domestic sporting goods market, will have access to Alibaba's software solutions for large data analysis and customer relationship ...
