More retail news – Page 94

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    Adidas speeds up

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    In line with the management's forecast, the Adidas Group accelerated on the sales front in the third quarter, posting a currency-neutral sales increase of 6 percent, compared with year-on-year increases of 4 percent in the first and second quarter, and the progress is expected to continue in the fourth quarter. ...

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    Adidas opens a digital flagship in London

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has opened a new flagship store, which it calls Adidas LDN, covering 27,000 square feet on four levels on Oxford Street in London, opposite the main department store of Selfridges. The site offers a unique, immersive customer experience. According to the company, it is the most digital Adidas store ...

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    Asics invests more in digital

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Asics Corp. continues to make new investments in start-ups and adjacent segments. Late last month, the Japanese group acquired Race Roster, a Canadian-based platform with a suite of services for the organizers of foot races that will complement its Runkeeper platform, based in Boston, and other digital operations. The purchase ...

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    Zalando improves results

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    For the first time in its history, Zalando received more than a billion visits to its web stores in a single quarter, or a total of 1,000.3 million, up by 37.3 percent year-on-year from 728,700. The share of mobile visits was 84.8 percent. The number of active customers reached 29.5 ...

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    Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery with electric cars. The online retailer recently started a pilot project in Hamburg with 24 electric cars, which are operated on 100 percent green electricity. Zalando works with various logistics partners. Hamburg's urban area has 600 charging stations for electric ...

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    Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon is expanding its presence in Berlin. The sporting goods retailer will be opening an eighth store this month, having opened two others earlier this year. The new branch will have a sales floor of 1,400 square meters. With the Mydecathlon membership card, customers will receive a bonus of €10 ...

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    Decathlon has received the approval of regional urban planning authorities...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon has received the approval of regional urban planning authorities to build its fourth store in Siberia, in a high-traffic site of its capital city, Novosibirsk. Occupying 4,300 square meters, it is set to open by Oct. 1, 2020, reportedly requiring an investment of around 45 million rubles (€630,000-$700,000). It ...

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    According to CMDsport, JD Sports has now surpassed Foot Locker...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    According to CMDsport, JD Sports has now surpassed Foot Locker to become Spain's number-one retailer of sneakers in total doors. Since early 2018, JD has increased its points of sale in Spain by 45 percent, from 40 to 58 stores. Eight of these have opened this year: in Valladolid, Algeciras, ...

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    Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Dooers, Forum Sport's chain of sneaker shops, has opened a store of 220 square meters in the city of Bilbao. This is Dooers' third store to open this year, its sixth in Spain's Basque Country and its 16th in Spain overall. The store stocks the major brands. The decor consists ...

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    Intersport Austria will open three new stores in Austria by...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Austria will open three new stores in Austria by the end of this year. They will be located in Graz, Salzburg-Bergheim and Linz. The existing Intersport stores in Ottensheim and Weiz will be renovated. Intersport is investing about €15 million in its retail network and creating about 160 new ...

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    Sportmarken24, the online portal for independent retailers, has been cooperating...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Sportmarken24, the online portal for independent retailers, has been cooperating with About You, the online retailer and subsidiary of the Otto group, since October. Sportmarken24 was launched in February 2018 by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer and former member of ANWR's supervisory board who has been very successful with ...

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    Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct....

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland on Oct. 31. It is located at the well-known Forum shopping center in the center of Helsinki and occupies 360 square meters. Blue Tomato opened a big store in Amsterdam in September. It has more than 45 physical stores operating in Austria, ...

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    Nike has extended its “Nike Live” store concept to Long...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Nike has extended its “Nike Live” store concept to Long Beach, California, and the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. The company opened an “experimental digital-meets-physical retail pilot,” called Nike by Melrose, in West Los Angeles in July of last year. To stock the store, Nike extrapolated from 18 months of consumer ...

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    Nike tops the 2019-2020 Omnichannel Leadership Report, an assessment of...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Nike tops the 2019-2020 Omnichannel Leadership Report, an assessment of how brands are operating in their omnichannel strategies, from digital to brick-and-mortar and customer experiences. The report, released by Newstore, took a critical look at more than 200 luxury, premium and lifestyle brands. Newstore's researchers acted as secret shoppers to ...

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    Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash and Shun Hirose – to reimagine its Campus 80 sneaker as part of its MakerLab program, Adidas launched a limited edition of the products through an interesting and engaging auction, where the consumer rather than the brand set the price. ...

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    Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in Bengaluru that includes a customization studio for prints and embroidery. There are 360 Puma stores in 130 cities in India, in addition to an e-commerce platform and wholesale operations.

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    After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up stores in major Canadian shopping malls, Manitobah Mukluks, the indigenous shoe brand from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is launching an aggressive retail expansion in Canada, raising the number of stores to 18. Manitobah Mukluks was founded in 2008 by Sean McCormick, an ...

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    Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores in Ottawa's RA Centre, a not-for-profit organization, and in Burlington, near Toronto, for its extensive collection of racquet-sports equipment, shoes and apparel. Before this retail expansion, Li-Ning's products were available only online and through a carefully selected network of specialty ...

  • Short stops

    On Oct. 26, Absolute Teamsport Rhein-Main opened a sixth store...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    On Oct. 26, Absolute Teamsport Rhein-Main opened a sixth store under Sport 2000's new Absolute banner at the Main Park Center in Mainaschaff, Germany

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    UYN has opened a pop-up store inside SportScheck's Munich flagship...

    2019-11-08T00:00:00Z

    UYN has opened a pop-up store inside SportScheck's Munich flagship