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German retail lockdown measures set through June 30
German legislation that imposes new limits on the opening of schools and non-essential retail stores, including sports shops, passed the Senate on Thursday, April 22. Already approved by the lower house of the German Parliament, the bill became law on Friday after being signed by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Stretching ...
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German retailers get cheap Covid tests from the GMS buying group
Since April 20, German employers are obliged to offer regular Covid-19 tests to staff members who are not working remotely from their homes. To enable its affiliated shoe and sports retailers to meet this obligation, the German-based GMS buying group is supplying its members with inexpensive rapid tests. To date, ...
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Foreign sports retailers dominate on Facebook in Spain
CMDsport has published a report on the social-media presence of the top purveyors of sporting goods and sportswear in Spain. The top platform is Facebook, followed by Instagram and Twitter, and on Facebook the top chain, by a large margin, is JD Sports, with 3.47 million followers. JD is the ...
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Spain’s Cronos opens a first store in Portugal
According to CMDsport, Deportes Cronos will be opening its first Portuguese store under its own name on April 24. Located in the capital city of Lisbon, and measuring some 100 square meters, the store is to be the first of seven in the country. The Spanish buying group for independent ...
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New line brings ViralOff to retail customers
An Italian company called Colors has channeled Polygiene’s ViralOff antimicrobial treatment into a line of products for retail customers. The Regenesis ViralOff Trigger Shield line of sprays and other products works on soft surfaces, hard surfaces and fabrics. It also meets the same ISO standards as regular ViralOff – eliminating ...
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Frasers acquires retail park near Manchester
Frasers Group has acquired the estate of the Robin Retail Park in the town of Wigan, just outside Manchester in the U.K. The terms of the sale have not been disclosed. According to Drapers, however, Otium Real Estate paid £12 million (€14m-$17m) for the property in March 2020. Among the ...
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At least seven more JD stores in Spain are in the works
JD Sports is expanding rapidly in Spain, where it has already set up a network of a dozen stores in the last couple of years. It has just opened a store in a shopping center of Madrid, La Vanguardia, and according to CMDsport, it is planning to add two others ...
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JD takes Size? to Canada
JD Sports Fashion has opened its first Size? sneaker shop outside Europe in Toronto. It has also launched a dedicated web store for the Canadian market, www.size.ca. The chain’s expansion in Canada is expected to continue with a store in Vancouver later this year, followed by a second one in ...
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Decathlon is recovering and expanding in the U.K.
This month Decathlon will be opening a two-floor, 35,000-square-foot experiential flagship at the Trinity Leeds mall in the British city of Leeds. The store will make products available for customers to touch, and maintain a repair shop for bicycles, kayaks and tents. According to Fashion Network – which quotes the ...
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Munich’s largest shoe store to open in April
Schmid Schuhe Mode Sport is opening next month the largest shoe store in the Munich area, taking the place of a former Karstadt department store in the Olympia shopping mall. The 9,500-square-meter location will offer regular and sports shoes for the whole family on two floors. Based in Augsburg, the ...
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News briefsAdidas and Peloton collaborate on apparel
As expected, Adidas has announced the launch of a line of apparel with Peloton on March 25. The Adidas x Peloton spring/summer 2021 collection – designed in collaboration with the Peloton instructors Ally Love, Robin Arzón and Cody Rigsby – is made of tank-tops, tights, shorts, hoodies, T-shirts, crewnecks, sports ...
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Decathlon plans to work with more online marketplaces in Russia
Decathlon is set to begin selling sporting goods through several online marketplaces in Russia as part of an expansion of its online sales activities, according to the local Retail news service, which quoted Julia Goroshenya, development director of Decathlon in Russia. Decathlon has already worked successfully with Russia’s second-largest online ...
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JD Sports partners with an e-sports firm in Italy
JD Sports and Qlash, an e-sports organization, have announced a new year-long partnership for 2021 that allows JD Sports to be part of the Italian e-sports scene. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will use their physical locations to “exchange” visibility and exposure. JD Sports will rely ...
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First Canadian JD store may open in the second half
JD Sports Fashion is reportedly planning to open its first JD Sports store in Canada in the second half of this year. Like it did in the U.S. with the acquisition of The Finish Line, it would utilize the platform of Onepointfive Ventures, a company based in Vancouver that it ...
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Sporthaus Saemann in Germany closes down for good
Hopes for a reorganization of the insolvent German retailer Sporthaus Saemann in Heilbronn have finally been dashed, leading to the closure of its large Intersport Profimarkt, three golf stores and an innovative Saemann Sportkultur store in the city center. In a statement, the insolvency administrator, Lutz Lohmann, stated that “the ...
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Adidas launches third artist-designed women’s collection
Adidas has launched a third artist-designed line of sportswear for its Women in Power Collection. The two previous artists were Nini Sum of Shanghai and Jordan Moss of New York City. This time around it’s Egle Zvirblyte of London, who has drawn inspiration for her colors from high-intensity training. The ...
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i-Run opens its first Parisian concept store
i-Run, a French online and offline retail chain specializing in running shoes, has opened its first concept store in Paris. The three-storey shop, called “The House of Running,” has a surface of 210 square meters (130 for the store alone) and is located at 10 rue du Plâtre, in the ...
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Adidas campaign features a meter-long shoe
Adidas and the Estonian rapper Tommy Cash have designed a sneaker that exceeds one meter in length and promoted it through Cash’s Instagram channel, where it received 140,000 likes within a day. The idea to “make the longest shoes in the world” came from Cash himself and is a marketing ...
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Adidas Confirmed comes to Europe
Adidas has expanded the reach of its new version of the Adidas Confirmed app to Europe. First launched in the U.S. and China last year, the app gives the registered customer immediate access to new releases of sneakers and special collections. The app became available on March 1 in Germany, ...
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A new trade body in the U.K. to support digital retail
Six major U.K.-based e-tailers – Asos, Boohoo, Gymshark, the Ocado Group, AO World and The Hut Group (THG) – have launched the UK Digital Business Association (UKDBA), a new trade body to support the fast-growing e-commerce sector. The new association will back the digital commerce sector while also supporting brick-and-mortar ...
