More retail news – Page 137

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    Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...

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    Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Base, the Spanish voluntary group, has opened the first store in a Spanish airport. Called Base Bazar Sport, it takes up 300 square meters of space in the airport of Grand Canaria, one of the Canary Islands.

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    Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Lyle & Scott has decided to close its flagship store in London's Carnaby Street and to move it to another unspecified location. The British company also has two outlet stores in the U.K., in addition to its web shop.

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    Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Cisalfa Sport has opened a new flagship store of 1,000 square meters on Piazza Pattari in downtown Milan

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    About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes were seized by customs at the port of Hamburg. The unbranded shoes came from China and were intended for sale online. Although they were unbranded, they violated trademark law as the design was found to be the same of that ...

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    Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit products are often of a better quality and are cheaper than the genuine articles, complicating the effort to fight counterfeiting on the country's largest e-commerce websites. The declarations, reported by Bloomberg and other media outlets, were made by the tycoon ...

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    Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected top picks in the upcoming NBA draft: Brandon Ingram, Jaylen Brown, Jamal Murray, Dragan Bender and Kris Dunn. The German brand says they will help it to develop the world's best basketball gear. They will be featured in brand campaigns, ...

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    Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with its initial ads for the promotion of Colombia's jerseys for Copa America. They spelled the country's name as Columbia. The Big a promptly apologized and reissued the ad with the correct spelling.

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    We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage...

    2016-06-23T00:00:00Z

    We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage in mulesing of sheep to reduce wrinkles in their skin. The big European e-commerce operator is also banning real fur and the use of feathers from live animals or from foie gras geese.

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    Adidas to divest Mitchell & Ness

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Mitchell & Ness business to a newly-formed company owned by Juggernaut Capital Partners. Adidas said the sale of the Philadelphia-based apparel brand will allow the group to focus more aggressively on its core brands. Mitchell & Ness is best known ...

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    The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast footwear production in Ansbach, Germany, is ready to start commercial production in 2017. The Speed Factory is to operate mostly with robots. The project was unveiled last year as part of the group's “Creating the new” strategy, which has speed ...

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    Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened – a flagship outlet at the bottom of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The store adopted the Home Court concept that was already implemented in Beijing, Madrid, Berlin and London, with features such as the Shoe Base, an interactive bar with ...

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    Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four new directors who represent some of its more specialized sports stores. Martin Schwarz of Heymann & Schwarz in Wuppertal will represent the owners of 129 stores that specialize in team sports, although many of them also cater to other categories. ...

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    21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical stores, reports that it has obtained financing in the double-digit million euro range to reinforce its business in Germany and to expand in international markets. Specializing in running, cycling, triathlon, outdoor and action sports products, 21sportsgroup is the company behind ...

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    Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has pounced on two top locations that became available earlier this year after the bankruptcy of Vroom & Dreesman (V&D), a major Dutch department store chain. Several Dutch newspapers report that Topshelf has taken over the leases of former V&D stores ...

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    XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10 most popular Norwegian web shops according to a national ranking compiled by Netthandel.no, which covers the past six months. It places XXL.no in sixth place with 6.18 million visits during the period. According to figures published by the retailer itself, ...

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    Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership,...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership, according to the Spanish media. The company had already closed two of its stores, in Barcelona and Valencia, leaving it with another store in Valencia and five franchises in Spain and France.

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    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...

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    Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July....

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July. According to reports in Corriere della Sera, the stores will be located on corso Vercelli and corso Buenos Aires, with plans for more openings in Bologna and Napoli. The Italian sportswear brand, which was established in 2008, is owned by ...

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    North Sails plans to open its first German store in...

    2016-06-01T00:00:00Z

    North Sails plans to open its first German store in Hamburg on June 23, to be followed by others in the country. The Italian company already has 45 stores in the rest of the world.