News briefs - Retail – Page 66
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On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall,...
On Nov. 15, Decathlon moved into the Potrero Center mall, on the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street in San Francisco. The new 38,370-square-foot store is the French retailer's third one in San Francisco's Bay Area and is highly digitalized, with a mobile checkout, endless-aisle kiosks, a robot to ...
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Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up...
Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up store in Breuninger's main department store in Stuttgart on Nov. 7. Under this project, the Italian designer apparel and lifestyle brand will feature collaborations with various designers, such as Poldo, the dog couture brand, Craig Green, the British designer, and ...
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Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store...
Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store concept with Sport Schuster, the big Munich-based sports retailer. Since Nov. 20, the fitness brand has been presenting new indoor bikes with fixed screens in Sport Schuster's store in the center of Munich. Peloton is producing training content for the ...
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Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in...
Vans has opened a store at 214 Oxford Street in London, its largest European store. The 4,714-square-foot flagship store, in a space previously occupied by Miss Selfridge, offers a wide selection of footwear, clothing and accessories for men, women and kids, as well as Vans' surf and pro-skate ranges. The ...
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Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store,...
Colmar has opened its first Parisian boutique. The 120-square-meter store, which was opened on Oct. 18, is located at 44, rue Etienne Marcel, in the fashionable Marais district. The Italian brand has five other stores in France, located in Annecy, Lille, Lyon, Megève and Chamonix. Colmar opened two new international ...
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Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid,...
Deportes Alaska, a well-known ski and mountaineering shop in Madrid, has moved to new premises. In tripling its area to 430 square meters, the shop has gained a storefront 12 meters wide on Calle Cristóbal Bordiú and, at last, a parking lot. The old shop had been tight for years ...
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Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs...
Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs Elysées, on the upper section of Paris' iconic avenue, according to reports in FashionNetwork.com. Moncler will take over a 1,500-square-meter space that was occupied by Nespresso from 2007 to October 2019. The date of the opening has not been unveiled. ...
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Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of...
Adidas and Prada are partnering on a collaborative line of sneakers. The announcement has been made on Instagram with the three accounts – Prada, Adidas and Adidas Originals – posting the same photo at the same time, all using the hashtag #Pradaforadidas, followed by the comment “Coming Soon.” The collection ...
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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending...
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Adidas are extending their sponsorship deal through 2030. Adidas originally supplied the Spanish national team's jersey from 1981 to 1983. The present deal dates back to 1991. As recently as last June (see SGI Europe Vol. 30 N°19+20), Adidas was threatening to take ...
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Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global...
Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global partnership that extends Fanatics' exclusive consumer product licensing rights to manufacture and distribute all Nike NFL adult products worldwide. The new agreement is an upgrade to the deal they signed in 2018, which covered only the U.S.
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Adidas has introduced the second generation of the FutureCraft Loop,...
Adidas has introduced the second generation of the FutureCraft Loop, its first 100 percent recyclable shoe. Like its predecessor, the second-generation shoe is also a 100 percent recyclable performance running shoe, but is created using a mix of raw materials and recycled components from the first-generation shoe. This means that ...
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Zalando, the Berlin-based online retailer, is currently testing same-day delivery...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
