News briefs - Retail – Page 44
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Zara partners with Joma for men’s athletic line
Zara has launched a line of fitness apparel and running shoes for men under its private label for sports products, Athleticz, limited for sale on its website and at some of its stores in Paris, Milan, Dubai, Manchester, Leidschendam-Voorburg (the Netherlands), Barcelona, Madrid and La Coruña (Spain). The Spanish brand ...
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News briefsFoot Locker announces “organizational enhancements”
Creating a new position, Foot Locker has promoted Franklin R. Bracken to chief operating officer, and is seeking candidates another new post of ”chief strategy, innovation and development officer.” According to the company’s chairman and CEO, Richard A. Johnson, the new posts will produce “a more streamlined and agile organizational ...
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Anta starred in China’s Singles’ Day
Alibaba has logged another record-breaking Singles’ Day, but the year-on-year growth of its sales in gross merchandise volume (GMV) for the event is on the decline. According to the trade publication Sportstextiles, this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, spread over 11 days, brought in for the Chinese e-commerce giant about ...
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News briefsDecathlon works with a social impact brand in Germany
Decathlon is the first sports retailer in Germany to have entered into a partnership with a local social impact company, called Share , to support and promote “social shopping.” As of mid-November, customers can purchase Share beanies and socks in all Decathlon stores and online. For each item sold, another ...
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Deporvillage’s catalog now exceeds 100,000 items
Deporvillage’s product catalog has passed the milestone of 100,000 items. Thanks to such lockdown effects as distance work and the spike in online purchasing, home fitness has become a top segment for the Catalonian e-commerce specialist, which was recently acquired indirectly by JD Sports Fashion through its controlling interest in ...
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Denmark's Sport 24 launches a Norwegian web shop
Sport 24, the third-largest sporting goods retailer in Denmark, opened a dedicated online store for the Norwegian market on Nov. 8, in time for the Black Friday promotions and the Christmas shopping season. The digital channel already generates about 30 percent of Sport 24’s sales, which grew by one percent ...
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Xero Shoes debuts European website
Xero Shoes has inaugurated a European e-commerce website, at www.XeroShoes.eu, starting by offering discounts of 12 to 70 percent for a while. The American brand of “natural movement” footwear produces several models in three categories: performance, casual and sandals. The performance models cover walking, road running, trail running and hiking, ...
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News briefsDecathlon wants to double its turnover in Germany
Based on a just-launched business plan for the next five years, Decathlon Germany aims to double its turnover to €2.5 billion in terms of gross merchandising value by 2026, compared with projected levels of around €950 million in 2021 and €1.3 billion in 2020. To help achieve this goal, the ...
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Sport 2000 Austria debuts its golf show with 45 brands
With over 45 brands, golf pro talks and the presentation of sales tools for golf courts and golf shops, Sport 2000 Austria held its first Golf Fair at the buying group’s headquarters in Ohlsdorf. Golf personalities such as Nicole Gergely, trainer of the Austrian national team, the Austrian national player ...
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The Danish Sportmaster chain has many new managers
The Danish Sportmaster chain has hired five new top managers since the beginning of this year, reporting to Andreas Holm, the company’s CEO, to help it to grow online and to open new stores in Denmark as well as in other Nordic countries. The Russian Sportmaster Group, which bought the ...
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JD Sports premieres a special Xmas ad
JD Sports premiered a Christmas ad – since posted to YouTube – on Nov. 6 during the airing of the Manchester derby on Sky Sports, where Manchester City beat Manchester United 2 to 0. In it, a young man walks down a downtown street – where all the shop names ...
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JD criticizes video of a July 5 meeting over Footasylum’s contested takeover
Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of JD Sports Fashion, was reported by The Sunday Times as being under investigation by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) over a possible breach of its rules on sharing sensitive information relating to JD’s contested takeover of the smaller Footasylum chain in the U.K. The ...
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Foot Locker launches Sidestep in Spain
Catering to a growing hype for sneakers in Spain, Foot Locker is planning to open its first stores under the trendy Sidestep banner in the country, competing with other foreign banners like Courir, Snipes and JD Sports, and many local banners. The first Sidestep stores are slated for openings in ...
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Zalando’s Zircle app adds resale option in Germany
Zalando has revamped and relaunched the Zircle app in its home market. German customers of the Zalando marketplace can now return articles of womenswear bought from their fellow customers there. All such items appear in the customers’ order history on the app. The new service will be extended to menswear ...
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Fanatics will host an international Olympic store
Fanatics is partnering with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to launch its first global Olympic web store, starting with the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024, followed by the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, and the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028. Fanatics will work with the organizing ...
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Intersport matched 2019 levels in the first nine months of 2021
Steve Evers, CEO of Intersport International Corp., tells us that the international retail network of Intersport returned to the 2019 level of €8.5 billion (including VAT) in the first nine months of 2021. The retail sales of the affiliated stores went up by 12.6 percent in the third quarter as ...
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Zalando more than triples its fleet of Magazino robots
Zalando has ordered 20 order picking robots specifically designed for the footwear industry from the German start-up Magazino. Zalando, which has invested in Magazino, initially bought two of the robots called Toru in 2018, before increasing the fleet by an additional six in 2019. Once the latest robots are fully ...
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News briefsWeSports buys a Swedish Nordic ski retail specialist
After its recent acquisition of the Finnish water sports equipment supplier Finwake in September, WeSports, a Stockholm-based group of individual sports, outdoor and mobility companies operating both online and with physical stores and product brands, has completed the acquisition of a Swedish sports retailer, Pölder Sport AB. Founded in 1990, ...
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Updated: Decathlon will launch a new “Decathlon Mountain” store franchising project in France and Switzerland
Decathlon is about to open two pilot stores in France and Switzerland for a new “Decathlon Mountain” concept that it plans to franchise in about 15 mountain resorts in the two countries. They will be selling only Decathlon products from the retailer’s huge range of private label items for winter ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters will leave Sport 2000
Hans-Hermann Deters, an iconic figure in the German sporting goods market, is planning to leave the position of joint general manager of Sport 2000 GmbH next March 31, after seven and a half years of successful work with the retail organization, where he reinforced its specialist orientation. At the age ...
