News Briefs – Page 353
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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 ...
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Nike tops the 2019-2020 Omnichannel Leadership Report, an assessment of...
Nike tops the 2019-2020 Omnichannel Leadership Report, an assessment of how brands are operating in their omnichannel strategies, from digital to brick-and-mortar and customer experiences. The report, released by Newstore, took a critical look at more than 200 luxury, premium and lifestyle brands. Newstore's researchers acted as secret shoppers to ...
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Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash...
Collaborating with three emerging designers – Helen Kirkum, Alex Nash and Shun Hirose – to reimagine its Campus 80 sneaker as part of its MakerLab program, Adidas launched a limited edition of the products through an interesting and engaging auction, where the consumer rather than the brand set the price. ...
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Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in...
Puma India has inaugurated an interactive, experiential flagship store in Bengaluru that includes a customization studio for prints and embroidery. There are 360 Puma stores in 130 cities in India, in addition to an e-commerce platform and wholesale operations.
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After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up...
After a successful pilot project last year with three pop-up stores in major Canadian shopping malls, Manitobah Mukluks, the indigenous shoe brand from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is launching an aggressive retail expansion in Canada, raising the number of stores to 18. Manitobah Mukluks was founded in 2008 by Sean McCormick, an ...
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Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores...
Li-Ning will open its for first Canadian stand-alone retail stores in Ottawa's RA Centre, a not-for-profit organization, and in Burlington, near Toronto, for its extensive collection of racquet-sports equipment, shoes and apparel. Before this retail expansion, Li-Ning's products were available only online and through a carefully selected network of specialty ...
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Clarus Corp., the parent company of Black Diamond and other...
Clarus Corp., the parent company of Black Diamond and other brands, had mixed results in the third quarter, with net income dropping by 14.3 percent to $3.5 million on 8.0 percent higher sales of $60.2 million. The gross margin was down by 1.6 percentage points to 34.1 percent, due to ...
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Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, expects...
Keller Sports, the German e-tailer of premium sporting goods, expects its sales for 2019 to increase by 70 percent from the previous year. It plans to reach total sales of more than €100 million by the end of 2020. This is the first time that Keller Sports has announced its ...
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According to the The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors at the...
According to the The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors at the U.S. Justice Department, with help from civil investigators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), are investigating the books at Under Armour. The Baltimore-based sports-apparel brand is alleged to have embellished its results by shifting sales from quarter to ...
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According to The Guardian, the Technical Commission of the IAAF...
According to The Guardian, the Technical Commission of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation) has appointed a working group of two former athletes and experts in science, ethics, footwear, biomechanics and law to review Nike's Vaporfly running shoes for possible competitive advantages that would run counter to its regulations. ...
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According to the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Twinkle Toes,...
According to the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Twinkle Toes, Bobs, Daddy'$ Money and Hydee Hy-top collections produced by Skechers do not infringe Nike's trademark on the Converse Chuck Taylor midsole. The judge in the case, Charles E. Bullock, has further found that the midsole trademark had not acquired its ...
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Billabong has gone in for some headbanging. Through its Billabong...
Billabong has gone in for some headbanging. Through its Billabong Lab – a platform for collaborations with artists, musicians, designers and photographers – the boardsports-apparel company will be releasing five lines in its Billabong x Metallica 2019-2020 Collection from this past October to March of next year. Each line incorporates ...
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Roksanda Ilin?i?, a Serbian fashion designer, has collaborated with Lululemon...
Roksanda Ilin?i?, a Serbian fashion designer, has collaborated with Lululemon to create an eclectic but functional and innovative capsule collection with bold color palettes and exaggerated silhouettes. According to the brand, the collection combines the designer's eye for color and volume with the technical fabrics and functionalities of some of ...
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Opening Ceremony and Hoka One One have teamed up for...
Opening Ceremony and Hoka One One have teamed up for the first time to produce a new capsule collection. The collection includes three reissues of classic Hoka footwear products: the Bondi running shoe, the Tor Ultra Hi trail runner and the Clifton trainer. In 2002, the designers Carol Lim and ...
