News briefs - Retail – Page 85
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Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200...
Adidas is joining many other investors in a new $200 million round of financing for Carbon that placed a $1.7 billion valuation on the company, higher than the $1.1 billion valuation of two other public supplier of 3D equipment and software, 3D Systems and Stratasys. Carbon's Digital Light Synthesis technology, ...
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DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the...
DW Sports has opened a 15,000-square-foot flagship store in the Intu Metrocentre of Gateshead. The chain has more than 90 stores all over the U.K. It's part of the DW Fitness First Group, which also operates 120 gyms.
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SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that...
SportScheck is apparently growing again. It has told TextilWirthschaft that it is in line to book a sales increase of 2 percent for the financial year ending next Feb. 28, after suffering a drop of 8.8 percent to €291 million in the previous year. The engine of the growth has ...
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Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital...
Foot Locker opened its first store in Oslo, the capital of Norway, nearly two years after it was first reported that the American retailer would do so. The store is not significantly different from Foot Locker stores elsewhere in the world. It is located on the popular shopping street of ...
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JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install...
JD Sports Fashion has embarked on a program to install electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags in more than 200 stores all over Europe, in partnership with Agon Systems. A test conducted by tagging garments in the U.K., France and the Netherlands has apparently led to a reduction of up to ...
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CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of...
CMD Sport has worked out that a record number of JD stores was opened in Spain this year. After openings in the shopping center of La Cañada in Marbella and the shopping center of Mataró Park in Mataró earlier this month, the number of openings has reached 14, to form ...
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Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich...
Puma has re-opened its store in the center of Munich with the Forever Faster concept, which has already been adopted by six other European stores, from London, Berlin and Prague to Antwerp, Madrid and Herzogenaurach, the German town where Puma has its head office. The Munich store sells wide ranges ...
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The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to...
The Adidas brand took advantage of virtual reality technology to enable customers to try on boots in a virtual Champions League game between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. For three days earlier this month, at the renovated Adidas flagship store in Paris, customers wearing VR goggles and sensors on their ...
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Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design...
Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design & Manufacturing, one of Forever 21's suppliers, in a trademark case claiming that Forever 21, a Los-Angeles based fast-fashion retailer, had violated trademark law by using Adidas' three-stripe mark. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. The lawsuit, ...
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Decathlon has opened its first store in Tunisia and contracted...
Decathlon has opened its first store in Tunisia and contracted a local logistics provider, Tanger Med, to handle its shipments to the growing number of stores it has in Africa. Covering more than 1,500 square meters in the Tunis City shopping mall, the store is reportedly set to be followed ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) is apparently developing a new retail...
Sports Direct International (SDI) is apparently developing a new retail brand, selling almost anything from dental floss to screwdrivers and household gloves (progressively classified as men's products, while the women's section features underwear calendars along with chocolate ring dog chews and a teenage ninja turtles scooter). “The brands you love for ...
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As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers...
As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers can create their own sneakers through Zalando.de. This has been an option for several years on the Adidas brand's online store with Miadidas, which enables consumers to pick their own colors, materials and soles. That same option has become available ...
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Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this...
Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this year at the International Retail Property Market (Mapic) in Cannes earlier this month. Nike was named “Retailer of the Year.” Adidas' new flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue was crowned for “Best Store Design.” Rapha's “clubhouse” cycling stores were ...
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted as saying in Bild am Sonntag during the weekend that the company would have a problem if one of its partners was found guilty of breaking the law. The quote was placed in the context of the Adidas group's partnership ...
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Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award,...
Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor companies that have taken concrete steps to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains. Adidas leads a group of four winning companies which also includes C&A, Intel and The Co-Operative Group. ...
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Adidas has unveiled a new app that is meant to...
Adidas has unveiled a new app that is meant to deliver a personalized shopping experience. The Adidas Sports & Style app uses Salesforce technology including Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud. The app gets to know the consumer's preferences, and proposes personalized news stories, blog posts, articles, videos and ...
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Intersport Twinsport, the largest Intersport retailer in the Netherlands with...
Intersport Twinsport, the largest Intersport retailer in the Netherlands with 12 stores, has agreed to take over another five stores from Intersport Duo. The five outlets neatly complement Twinsport's business as they are situated in the province of North Holland, not far from Amsterdam. The Twinsport stores are in other ...
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Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has...
Snowleader, a French online retailer of snow sports products, has added Spain to the country list of its online boutiques, with the launch of a new “.es” e-commerce site. The announcement was made by Thomas Rouault, the co-founder and chief executive of Snowleader, on the occasion of the first conference ...
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2XU has signed a partnership agreement with GXG, a Chinese...
2XU has signed a partnership agreement with GXG, a Chinese fashion retailer, which will make 2XU products widely available to Chinese consumers. 2XU is planning to open up to 50 retail stores in mainland China over the next three years. 2XU currently operates 26 retail and outlet stores in Australia ...
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Flipkart has reportedly formed a partnership with Decathlon to sell...
Flipkart has reportedly formed a partnership with Decathlon to sell the French retailer's private labels, in a bid to increase its share in the growing Indian sports retail market. The Indian e-commerce giant is said to have a customer base of over 100 million, which will allow Decathlon to increase ...
