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    Zion Armstrong takes the lead at Adidas North America

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Zion Armstrong, who has played a pivotal part in the Adidas brand's expansion in North America in the last three years, is to take over as president of Adidas North America at the start of July, after the retirement of Mark King.The Adidas Group said that King decided to step ...

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    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe at its Speedfactory in Atlanta. The shoe, whose name stands for Made for New York City, became available in the U.S. at retail on April 27. As previously reported, the company's American facility and its German Speedfactory in Ansbach are ...

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    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office last month, in the business district of Strasbourg-Archipel, across from the European Parliament. The office has been transferred there from Landersheim, a small village in the Alsace where Adidas France was built up by Horst Dassler from 1973, after a ...

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    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square meters in Karlsruhe a few days ago, Decathlon has started a program of seven openings in Germany, which should enable it to end the year with 57 stores around the country. The next openings include a store after the summer ...

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    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more than 1,600 square meters in the second half of this year at the department store of El Corte Inglés at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. A person familiar with the project told Efe, the Spanish news agency, that Nike ...

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    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble Arch in London, on a surface of about 1,300 square meters at street and basement level. The location at the western end of Oxford Street was previously occupied by a fast food outlet. The store is set to open across ...

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    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its online store at www.golfino.com. The main feature of the site is a new shopping system, based on a software called “Shopware,” which is said to significantly enhance the customer's shopping experience. According to the company's description, the revamped site features ...

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    JD Sports started expanding in Spain again last month with...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports started expanding in Spain again last month with three openings in Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca and Fuengirola, which raises the retail brand's Spanish store total to 43, as reported by CMD Sport

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    Karstadt Warenhaus has moved into the curated fashion shopping category...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Karstadt Warenhaus has moved into the curated fashion shopping category by taking over assets of Kisura, a start-up launched in Berlin in 2013, which filed for insolvency earlier this year

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    Adidas has developed a new yoga collection in cooperation with...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has developed a new yoga collection in cooperation with Wanderlust, using polyester made of recycled plastic from oceans. 80 percent of the waste that is in oceans and on coasts is plastic. As with some other Adidas products already launched, Parley for the Oceans, the environmental organization that addresses major ...

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    Adidas has signed up the University of Wyoming, covering the...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed up the University of Wyoming, covering the school's 17 athletic team. The Cowboys teams were previously split between Nike and Under Armour.

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    Adidas has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with an Irish...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with an Irish rugby team, Leinster

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    Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, has agreed...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, has agreed to be one of the speakers at the Ispo Digitize Summit, the event organized by Messe München in June around the digital economy. Other confirmed speakers include Günther Althaus, chief executive of the ANWR Group, Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer, co-founder and chief ...

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    Adidas and Reebok top the 2018 edition of the Fashion...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas and Reebok top the 2018 edition of the Fashion Transparency Index, which reviews and ranks global fashion and apparel brands and retailers based on how much information they disclose about their value chain and its social and environmental impact. The Index, issued by Fashion Revolution, was first launched in ...

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    Keller Sports launches a special app

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Keller Sports, the German online retailer of premium sports products, launched yesterday its own app, which rewards customers for the intensity of their sporting activities. Connected with a fitness tracker, the free app gives them points that allow them to obtain a 20 percent discount on its products or a ...

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    Adidas will have fewer and better stores

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas directly operates 2,500 stores globally and has an additional 13,000 mono-branded stores operated by franchisees. In an interview with the Financial Times, the Adidas Group's chief executive, Kaspar Rorsted, said that he expects the total number of stores to contract slightly, but “they will be better.”Rorsted has already indicated ...

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    Nike and Adidas promote gender equality

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    As reported in our last issue, Nike announced last month the departure of Trevor Edwards, president of the Nike brand, and another top executive, Jayme Martin, vice president and general manager of global categories. Mark Parker, chairman, president and chief executive of the Nike group, indirectly indicated in an internal ...

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    Adidas is boosting its plans for the expansion of Adidas...

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is boosting its plans for the expansion of Adidas North America's campus in Portland, Oregon. It will expand it by 425,000 square feet instead of the originally planned 200,000 sqft. extension. Overlooking the Columbus River, the campus currently hosts 1,700 employees squeezed into 365,000 sqft. of office space. It ...

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    After seven weeks of work, Engelhorn Sport has completed the...

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    After seven weeks of work, Engelhorn Sport has completed the latest refurbishment of its flagship store in Mannheim, transforming the first and second floors. The first floor is completely dedicated to women, including a bra fitting station. The German retailer, which is a member of Intersport, had already expanded the ...

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    After two years of reconstruction that reportedly cost €35 million,...

    2018-04-12T00:00:00Z

    After two years of reconstruction that reportedly cost €35 million, another large German sports store, L&T in Osnabruck, has reopened its doors, offering a new shopping experience. The biggest attraction is an artificial wave in the water basin in the basement, where people can surf. Another special feature is a ...