News briefs - Retail – Page 82

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    Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products,...

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products, is entering the Portuguese market with the opening of three stores in Guimaraes, Porto and Lisbon. Actually, it already opened a store on the Portuguese island of Madeira in 2016. The chain already has 40 stores in operations, most of ...

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    Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from...

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from its AM4 (Adidas Made For) series. The shoe, which is made at Adidas' Speedfactory facility in Atlanta, this time utilizes yarns derived from marine plastic recovered from coastal areas. The AM4LA, tailored to the streets of Los Angeles, follows the ...

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    Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa...

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa through 2021, including its Champions League, its Super Cup, its Youth League and its Futsal Champions League. The Three Stripes has supplied the match ball for Uefa's tournaments since 2001.

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    Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return...

    2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

    Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return for the second consecutive year of Run for the Oceans, a running initiative to raise awareness of the threat of marine plastic pollution, from June 8 to July 8. Adidas and Parley will be hosting a series of runs in ...

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    Fanatics has opened a German office in Hamburg. It is...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Fanatics has opened a German office in Hamburg. It is headed up by Joachim Hilke, former general manager of HSV and Sportfive.

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    JD Sports Fashion has launched a dedicated online store for...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports Fashion has launched a dedicated online store for Supply & Demand, one of its labels for apparel, in a move that is apparently meant to widen its customer base. Supply & Demand is positioned as an urban brand targeting younger consumers. The JD online store describes the brand ...

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    Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding to around 60 percent of its franchisees, have joined a partnership project with Go Sport that will see them transformed into “Endurance Shop by Go Sport,” the banner of the new project. The 32 stores have an average turnover of ...

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    Joining the newest flagship stores of Adidas, Nike and Asics...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Joining the newest flagship stores of Adidas, Nike and Asics in the same area of New York City, Puma will be opening a 24,000-square-foot flagship store in Manhattan toward the middle of next year. Spanning over three levels, it will be located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 49th ...

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    Champion has opened its first store in the Netherlands. The...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Champion has opened its first store in the Netherlands. The 180-square-meter shop will be located in Amsterdam's city center, at Reestraat 9, in a shopping district filled with retailers, restaurants and bars. The store space is divided over a ground floor, a mezzanine and the basement. Up until now, the ...

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    Salming Sports is closing its concept store on Stockholm's main...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Salming Sports is closing its concept store on Stockholm's main shopping street, Kungsgatan, as one of several changes that the Swedish company plans to implement in the near future. The store first opened in 2015, but since then much has changed in the consumers' buying behavior. Today, Salming has its ...

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    Snipes, the retail chain forb sneakers and streetwear products owned...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Snipes, the retail chain forb sneakers and streetwear products owned by Deichmann, will open its first store in France in July. It will be located in the suburban Créteil Soleil shopping center near Paris and will be followed by another store in the Carré Sénart mall of Lieusaint at a ...

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    Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Adidas is the brand that is pictured most on Twitter and Instagram, according to an analysibs by Brandwatch. In April, Adidas' logo appeared in 6,664,170 unique images, which means in 154 new images every minute, or three new images every second, Brandwatch explains. Adidas is followed by Nike, whose logo ...

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    Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in the U.S. District Court in Portland over the alleged copying of the German brand's iconic Stan Smith shoe. A few days ago, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring Skechers from selling its Onix shoe, but it ...

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    Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years...

    2018-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Starting next month, Adidas will replace Puma after five years as sponsor of the Leicester City football club, which plays in England's Premier League. The duration of the new contract has not been specified. This comes after Leicester City finished ninth in the Premier League, ending the season with a ...

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    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has started serial production of its AM4NYC running shoe at its Speedfactory in Atlanta. The shoe, whose name stands for Made for New York City, became available in the U.S. at retail on April 27. As previously reported, the company's American facility and its German Speedfactory in Ansbach are ...

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    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    About 200 people moved into Adidas France's new head office last month, in the business district of Strasbourg-Archipel, across from the European Parliament. The office has been transferred there from Landersheim, a small village in the Alsace where Adidas France was built up by Horst Dassler from 1973, after a ...

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    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    With the opening of a store of about 1,500 square meters in Karlsruhe a few days ago, Decathlon has started a program of seven openings in Germany, which should enable it to end the year with 57 stores around the country. The next openings include a store after the summer ...

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    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Nike is reportedly preparing to open a mega-store of more than 1,600 square meters in the second half of this year at the department store of El Corte Inglés at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. A person familiar with the project told Efe, the Spanish news agency, that Nike ...

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    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Foot Locker is reportedly opening a mega-flagship store at Marble Arch in London, on a surface of about 1,300 square meters at street and basement level. The location at the western end of Oxford Street was previously occupied by a fast food outlet. The store is set to open across ...

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    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its...

    2018-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Golfino, the golfwear specialist based in Hamburg, has redesigned its online store at www.golfino.com. The main feature of the site is a new shopping system, based on a software called “Shopware,” which is said to significantly enhance the customer's shopping experience. According to the company's description, the revamped site features ...