News briefs - Retail – Page 50
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Fútbol Emotion partners with Nike for a deal with the Huesca club
Fútbol Emotion and Nike have signed a joint deal with the SD Huesca football club, which plays in La Liga. For the next four seasons, Fútbol Emotion will be supplying Nike apparel to the men’s, women’s and youth divisions of the club, along with its staff and the Fundación Alcoraz, ...
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Sports Direct opens an “elevated” flagship store in London
As part of the chain’s “elevation strategy,” Sports Direct is reopening its flagship store on London’s Oxford Street, which it inaugurated in 2014, after a major £10 million (€1.2m-$1.4m) refurbishment carried out in the last six months during the recent Covid-related retail lockdowns. Two other flagship stores are due to ...
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Decathlon expands to Western Canada
Decathlon, which already has eight stores in the eastern part of Canada, is expanding to the western part of the country with a big store and distribution center in Calgary. The 70,000-square-foot store and warehouse will occupy the second floor a former Sears department store in the Southcentre Mall of ...
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News briefsFoot Locker is redesigning its staff jerseys
Foot Locker Europe is redesigning the “Striper” jersey worn by clerks at its stores. To this end it has hired Highsnobiety, which provides what it calls audience insight, category analysis, brand strategy, go-to-market planning and integrated campaigns. This media company is in turn hiring “local sneaker and streetwear brands” to ...
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What will football look like by 2024?
Decathlon is providing interesting insights into what the game of football may look like in 21 years, with most spectators following matches in smaller stadia or through an immersive experience over the internet. For example, contact lenses on the eyes of a player could allow future spectators to see what ...
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WIT Fitness collaborates with CrossFit
WIT Fitness, a six-year-old online and offline multi-brand retailer based in London, has signed a global multi-year e-commerce and retail partnership with CrossFit. WIT will operate an online CrossFit store and support CrossFit with in-house products in the future. WIT has only two physical stores in London for the moment, ...
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Sergio Longoni of DF Sport is honored by the Lombardy region
Sergio Longoni, the head and founder of DF Sport Specialist and Bicimania, has received an honorable mention at the Premio Rosa Camuna 2020 (Camunian Rose Award). The award, established by Lombardy’s regional council, recognizes each year those who have distinguished themselves for industriousness and creativity and their contribution to the ...
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Sport-Tiedje grew by 55% last year, thanks to e-commerce
The German-based Sport-Tiedje Group, which claims to be still Europe’s largest retailer for home fitness products, has reported a 55 percent sales increase to €203 million for last year, with growth in all European countries, as higher online revenues compensated for the partial closure of its 65 stores in the ...
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Decathlon France and Ibis Budget launch the Smart Sport Tour
Train Me, Decathlon’s coaching platform and the Ibis chain of low-cost hotels are launching the “Smart Sport Tour.” Starting on June 12, 52 Ibis Budget hotels in France will be proposing fitness sessions for free. These sessions will include easy exercises accessible to everyone. Decathlon fitness accessories will also be ...
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New CEO for Decathlon USA
Christian Ollier, who has worked for Decathlon for 15 years, has been elevated to the position of CEO of Decathlon USA. He takes the place of another company veteran, Michel D’Humières, who is said to be moving to handle other projects inside the world’s largest sporting goods retail chain. Ollier ...
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Online sales account for 17.3% of El Corte Inglès’ retail sales
El Corte Inglés, the leading Spanish department store chain, is a major factor in the country’s sporting goods market. The company reported a 19 percent decline to €10.52 billion in revenues from its retail business in the 2020 financial year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The drop would have been ...
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News briefsPinterest brings shopping functions to France, Germany, Canada and Australia
The Pinterest photo app wants to become more of a shopping platform internationally. After the U.S. and U.K., the company’s shopping functions will now also be available in Australia, Canada, France and Germany later this year. Users will thus have the opportunity to buy products directly via pins, pinboards and ...
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News briefsEU modernizes VAT rules for international online trade
New EU tax rules for orders placed with non-European online retailers will come into force at the beginning of July. The most important change is the elimination of the previous exemption limit of €22 for direct (B2C) imports. This means that import VAT will be due on all packages, with ...
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Deporvillage to get a new HQ
Deporvillage plans to move its headquarters to new buildings in the Catalonian municipality of Sant Fruitós de Bages sometime late this year. There the staff, which recently came to exceed 100, will occupy 2,500 square meters of space. The Spanish e-tailer last expanded its office space in 2017, and has ...
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Sports retailers’ closures up by 84% year-on-year in Spain
Like in other countries, the pandemic has accelerated a reduction in the number of sporting goods stores in Spain, adding to factors such as the growing weight of e-commerce, the more selective distribution policies of the major sports brands and the general modernization of the trade. Some 372 sporting goods ...
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Snipes buys a Polish chain
Snipes, the German-based sneaker and streetwear retail chain owned by Deichmann, is expanding to Poland with the acquisition of Distance, a retail chain founded in 2003 that sells soùoamr products through 31 physical stores in the country and an online shop that can be accessed from 20 European countries. No ...
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A new sneaker subscription platform, KYX, has been launched
KYX World, a new sneaker subscription platform that features a “try-before-you-buy and non-committal sneaker access model,” was launched out of Los Angeles on June 1, starting with 900 subscribers. By subscribing to the platform, users can obtain “fresh sneakers” every month and to “wear them, and then choose to keep ...
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Quiksilver presents 450 vintage pieces
Quiksilver is going to offer 450 unique unisex items from its archives for sale in a special pop-up area of the Citadium sports fashion store in central Paris between June 7 and 27. The colorful, authenticated vintage items come out of its collections dating from 1980 to 2000. They will ...
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Foot Locker and Melody Ehsani launch inaugural collection
Foot Locker has announced the launch of an exclusive basketball-inspired capsule collection designed by Melody Ehsani, the new creative director of its women’s business. It will be the first of several capsule collections that the international sports retailer plans to drop this year. The collection highlights colors inspired by nature ...
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German retailers seize the Constitutional Court over the lockdowns
A group of ten German retailers including Intersport, Engelhorn and Rose Bikes have sued the German federal government in the country’s Constitution Court over its strict anti-Covid lockdown regulations. The current measures prevent the opening of so-called “non-essential” retail stores, including sporting goods retail shops, in areas where more than ...
