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    The National Basketball Association (NBA) has opened its largest store...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    The National Basketball Association (NBA) has opened its largest store outside North America. Located at the Intime Mall in Beijing, the store has a floor space of 1,145 square meters. It is operated by Topsports, China's largest retailer of sporting goods and a wholly owned subsidiary of Belle International Holding, ...

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    Nike is the most searched for brand of sneakers in...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Nike is the most searched for brand of sneakers in Italy, followed by Balenciaga, according to a recent ranking by Lyst, the global fashion search engine. Nike emerged as the most searched sneaker brand in seven Italian regions out of 20, thanks to its Air Vapormax, Air Max 97, Air ...

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    Columbia inaugurated a new store in London's iconic Carnaby Street...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Columbia inaugurated a new store in London's iconic Carnaby Street on March 28 to sell a full collection of premium apparel, footwear and accessories. The 230-square-meter store will host a dedicated launch event on April 6, with more in-store events scheduled to take place throughout the summer.

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    Instead of extending a contract with Adidas, Naomi Osaka has...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Instead of extending a contract with Adidas, Naomi Osaka has preferred to sign a new sponsorship deal for footwear and apparel with Nike. Adidas had reportedly offered to pay between $8.5 million and $10 million per year for the Japanese tennis star, who beat Serena Williams at the U.S. Open ...

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    Adidas is continuing its collaboration with MTV. Part of their...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is continuing its collaboration with MTV. Part of their skateboarding line, the company has launched a second “Beavis and Butt-Head” collection with two sneaker models and four apparel styles. The cult comic series has been airing again since April on Germany's free MTV channel.

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    Adidas has partnered with the New Zealand men's rugby union...

    2019-04-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has partnered with the New Zealand men's rugby union team, the All Blacks, to design new training apparel for the team made from recovered ocean plastic. The jersey is part of the first Adidas Parley rugby collection, which continues the brand's relationship with Parley for the Oceans, the ocean ...

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    Adidas has named the candidates standing for election to its...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has named the candidates standing for election to its supervisory board at the annual general meeting on May 9, as Frank Appel, Katja Kraus and Willi Schwerdtle will not be standing for reelection. New on the board would be Jing Ulrich, managing director and vice chairman for Asia-Pacific at JPMorgan ...

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    Decathlon has confirmed its selection of the Bay Area for...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon has confirmed its selection of the Bay Area for its first major brick-and-mortar store in the U.S. There will be a three-day grand opening starting on Friday, April 12, at 3938 Horton Street in the East Bay Bridge shopping center in Emeryville, just outside Oakland, California. At 47,000 square ...

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    A Swedish-based price comparison website, Prisjakt, recently held its Online...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    A Swedish-based price comparison website, Prisjakt, recently held its Online Store of the Year 2018 competition, and over 120,000 users once again voted for Sportamore as the winner in the Sport category – in both Sweden and Finland. The Prisjakt awards have been handed out since 2010, when Sportamore received ...

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    Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won the “Royal Class” award as the best online retailer in Germany from Internet World Business magazine. The new award recognizes a company's excellence as both a pure player and a multi-channel retailer. Keller was praised for a “perfect” product range ...

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    Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The baseball star from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who plays for the Houston Astros, will be featured in upcoming Adidas brand marketing campaigns. The player will also collaborate on the creation of future baseball products. Bregman made his debut in Major League ...

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    Adidas has announced in a tweet that its sponsored players...

    2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has announced in a tweet that its sponsored players on the winning team in the upcoming 2019 Fifa Women's World Cup, starting in France on June 7, will get the same performance bonus as their male counterparts. The announcement was made just hours after it was revealed that the ...

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    Engelhorn, the big German sports and fashion retailer based in...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Engelhorn, the big German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim, has placed both parts of its business in the hands of Armin Weger, who had been running Engelhorn Sports since 2015. He is also taking over the functions of Oliver Beuthien, who is leaving the company after running the ...

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    Kant, the Russian sporting goods retailer and wholesaler, has become...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Kant, the Russian sporting goods retailer and wholesaler, has become the official distributor of Reusch in its country. The agreement, signed between the two companies during the 2019 Ispo Munich show, starts with orders for the autumn/winter 2019/20 collection. Kant plans to sell Reusch ski gloves throughout its own retail ...

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    Fanatics has struck a deal to become the exclusive supplier...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Fanatics has struck a deal to become the exclusive supplier of licensed sports merchandise on Coupang, the South Korean internet marketplace. The deal takes effect this summer for a term of ten years. South Korea is definitely among the world's top ten e-commerce markets, well behind China and the U.S. ...

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    Sportamore, the largest online sporting goods retailer in the Nordic...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Sportamore, the largest online sporting goods retailer in the Nordic countries, is preparing to enter new markets, with the first stop being France in the autumn of 2019. According to Sportfack, Sportamore has been working strategically over the past two years to build a scalable infrastructure with a high degree ...

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    Jim Gatto, former head of basketball marketing for Adidas, was...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Jim Gatto, former head of basketball marketing for Adidas, was sentenced to nine months in prison by a New York court on charge of defrauding a number of NCAA college programs by paying promising athletes to attend their schools, making them ineligible to play. Two of his assistants, Merle Code ...

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    Adidas has signed multi-year sponsorships with two American football players...

    2019-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has signed multi-year sponsorships with two American football players at the top-tier university level: Marquise “Hollywood” Brown of Oklahoma and Hakeem Butler of Iowa State. Both play the position of wide receiver. Butler recently debuted this year's Adizero 40 cleats and Adizero 8.0 cleats during on-field workouts and 40-yard dash trials in ...

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    Puma and Zalando are intensifying their cooperation. The sportswear company's...

    2019-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Puma and Zalando are intensifying their cooperation. The sportswear company's new women's training collection will be exclusively available at Zalando in the coming two weeks. From the beginning of March, Puma will then also be selling the line in its own stores and its online shop. The collection includes tops, ...

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    Less than a year after closing its store in Reutlingen,...

    2019-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Less than a year after closing its store in Reutlingen, SportScheck is also ceasing operation at its shop in the northern German town of Braunschweig. The 2,700-square-meter store will be shut down on March 23 after seven years of operation, the company said. Like other retailers, SportScheck is having to ...