Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 126
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JD Sports Fashion said that it formally completed its acquisition...
JD Sports Fashion said that it formally completed its acquisition of Sport Zone at the end of January, to form the second-largest sports retailer in Iberia, with annualized sales of about €450 million. As reported last month, the European Commission already cleared the combination of the existing interests of JD ...
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Sport 2000 International has terminated its licensing contract for the...
Sport 2000 International has terminated its licensing contract for the Sport 2000 banner with its single biggest retail member, Sports Direct International, which still holds a small minority share in the organization, but this will probably not last much longer. Sport 2000 Germany has taken over its license for the ...
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Zalando focuses on investments and market share gains
Zalando said it would continue to focus on market share gains this year, after the German online retailer raised its turnover above the €4 billion mark in 2017 but investments put pressure on its margins.Zalando made it clear last year that it was raising investment in infrastructure and technology, at ...
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Garmin has opened its first dedicated retail space in Europe,...
Garmin has opened its first dedicated retail space in Europe, in the center of Barcelona, to showcase the full range of sports and outdoor products it offers. The store consists of a sizeable shop-in-shop in the department store of El Corte Inglés in Portal de l'Angel, one of the busiest ...
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Ispo plans to cooperate with Alibaba
The Alibaba Group and Ispo announced that they are exploring a joint strategic collaboration. As part of this initiative, the 4,000-plus clients of Ispo from all over the world would be given an opportunity to expand their e-commerce operations in China through Alibaba's big B2C marketplace, Tmall. They would benefit ...
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Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas...
Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas brand in France. He takes over from Nicolas Favre, who became general manager for Adidas France last November. Bouchès took up the position at the beginning of this year and he joined a seven-strong management committee. The Frenchman became part ...
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Macron will replace Adidas as the kit sponsor of Real...
Macron will replace Adidas as the kit sponsor of Real Sociedad, the Spanish football club based in San Sebastián, in the Basque region. The club competes in La Liga, Spain's top football league. Based in Bologna, Italy, Macron is currently the technical sponsor of several European teams, including Crystal Palace ...
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Umbro will replace Adidas as the technical supplier of an...
Umbro will replace Adidas as the technical supplier of an Argentinian football team, Newell's Old Boys, for three years
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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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Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the...
Salomon will open its first store in Paris in the spring, located on Boulevard Saint Germain, according to sportguide.com
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Zalando expands its partnership program
Zalando has reportedly doubled the sales generated by its brand partnership programs in the last year, enabling brands to take advantage of Europe's leading online fashion retailing platform to sell extra products.The German company sells about 2,000 brands in 15 European countries, buying products and delivering them from its warehouses. ...
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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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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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Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public,...
Footasylum, the British shoe retail chain that recently went public, will open next year its second women's store, covering 7,200 square feet in Manchester's Arndale Center
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One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space...
One of JD Sports Fashion's biggest stores, with a space of 40,000 square feet, has just opened in the Liverpool One shopping center, featuring an area especially dedicated to football fans
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Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten...
Icebreaker, which has been in the French market for ten years, has re-opened a store of about 100 square meters in Snell, a famous sports store in Chamonix, using the New Zealand merino wool specialist's latest retail concept and displaying a full range of adventure, training and lifestyle products
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Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its...
Asics is the latest sports brand to have opened its own flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue, located near 57th Street and covering 2,035 square feet
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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 ...
