News briefs - Retail – Page 96
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Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected...
Adidas has signed sponsorship deals with five of the projected top picks in the upcoming NBA draft: Brandon Ingram, Jaylen Brown, Jamal Murray, Dragan Bender and Kris Dunn. The German brand says they will help it to develop the world's best basketball gear. They will be featured in brand campaigns, ...
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Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with...
Adidas got some criticism on social media in connection with its initial ads for the promotion of Colombia's jerseys for Copa America. They spelled the country's name as Columbia. The Big a promptly apologized and reissued the ad with the correct spelling.
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We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage...
We hear that Zalando is requiring suppliers not to engage in mulesing of sheep to reduce wrinkles in their skin. The big European e-commerce operator is also banning real fur and the use of feathers from live animals or from foie gras geese.
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The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast...
The Adidas Group says that its pilot plant for fast footwear production in Ansbach, Germany, is ready to start commercial production in 2017. The Speed Factory is to operate mostly with robots. The project was unveiled last year as part of the group's “Creating the new” strategy, which has speed ...
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Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened...
Closed for several weeks, Adidas' largest European store has reopened – a flagship outlet at the bottom of the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The store adopted the Home Court concept that was already implemented in Beijing, Madrid, Berlin and London, with features such as the Shoe Base, an interactive bar with ...
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Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four...
Sport 2000 Germany has enlarged its advisory board, electing four new directors who represent some of its more specialized sports stores. Martin Schwarz of Heymann & Schwarz in Wuppertal will represent the owners of 129 stores that specialize in team sports, although many of them also cater to other categories. ...
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21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical...
21sportsgroup, the German sports retailer with both online and physical stores, reports that it has obtained financing in the double-digit million euro range to reinforce its business in Germany and to expand in international markets. Specializing in running, cycling, triathlon, outdoor and action sports products, 21sportsgroup is the company behind ...
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Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has...
Topshelf, an established Dutch sports retailer with five megastores, has pounced on two top locations that became available earlier this year after the bankruptcy of Vroom & Dreesman (V&D), a major Dutch department store chain. Several Dutch newspapers report that Topshelf has taken over the leases of former V&D stores ...
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XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10...
XXL's online store has been ranked among the top 10 most popular Norwegian web shops according to a national ranking compiled by Netthandel.no, which covers the past six months. It places XXL.no in sixth place with 6.18 million visits during the period. According to figures published by the retailer itself, ...
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Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership,...
Evasion Running, a specialized Spanish retailer, has gone into receivership, according to the Spanish media. The company had already closed two of its stores, in Barcelona and Valencia, leaving it with another store in Valencia and five franchises in Spain and France.
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Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...
Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...
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Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July....
Jaked will open two new stores in Milan in July. According to reports in Corriere della Sera, the stores will be located on corso Vercelli and corso Buenos Aires, with plans for more openings in Bologna and Napoli. The Italian sportswear brand, which was established in 2008, is owned by ...
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North Sails plans to open its first German store in...
North Sails plans to open its first German store in Hamburg on June 23, to be followed by others in the country. The Italian company already has 45 stores in the rest of the world.
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Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have...
Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have teamed up to try and take more control of his legacy, according to Capital, the German magazine. Most of the heirs stayed away from the spotlight after the sale of Adidas in the early nineties by the four daughters of ...
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Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the...
Mark King, president of Adidas North America, has reaffirmed the brand's strategy to sign dozens of endorsement deals with U.S. sports players in the coming years. The Adidas brand's sales shot up by 31 percent in North America in the first quarter of this year, but the rise was strongly ...
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Igor Landau, supervisory board chairman of the Adidas Group, has...
Igor Landau, supervisory board chairman of the Adidas Group, has told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the company intends to stick with its partnership with Fifa, which runs until 2030, despite the governance issues that have been plaguing the football organization. Landau said that the company deplored what occurred at ...
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Hydra Ventures, the venturing arm of the Adidas Group, has...
Hydra Ventures, the venturing arm of the Adidas Group, has become an investor in 360fly, a Californian company that specializes in single-lens cameras capturing 360-degree videos. Hydra Ventures came on board as part of a Series C round of financing worth $40 million. It joins L Catterton and Qualcomm Ventures, ...
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BM Sportech will handle the distribution of Adidas' textile and...
BM Sportech will handle the distribution of Adidas' textile and footwear offerings for pádel, the Spanish version of tennis, from the spring/summer 2017 season. BM Sportech is already the Spanish distributor of Prince and K-Swiss.
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Sports Direct International (SDI) is among the parties that have...
Sports Direct International (SDI) is among the parties that have reportedly shown interest in acquiring BHS, a British retailer with 164 stores specializing in clothing and household items, which went into administration (a form of bankruptcy) earlier this month. Talks held with Mike Ashley, majority shareholder of SDI, fell through ...
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Karstadt's online business has become profitable, said the manager in...
Karstadt's online business has become profitable, said the manager in charge in an interview with the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) last month. Klaus Haensch took over this function in May last year and he has made far-reaching changes at the German retailer's online business, leading to a reduced offering on ...
