Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 154
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Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to...
Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to Strasbourg toward the end of 2017, in the new business area of Wacken. It will thus leave the village of Landersheim near Saverne, where it was established in 1973. Despite repeated renovations, the office complex was apparently no longer suitable. ...
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Keller Sports wins prizes, adds top winter sports brands
Keller Sports, the first online retailer in Europe to have chosen a premium positioning in the market, won a couple of important prizes a few weeks ago in a prestigious contest for the “Shop Usability Award,” organized by a German retail consultancy, Shoplupe. Competing against 533 other e-commerce websites in ...
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Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis...
Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis section of the French Handisport Federation (FFH), which promotes tennis for disabled people in France. The sporting goods retailer had recently proposed its clients donate €1 in cash for this cause. In 2014, when the initiative was first launched, Go ...
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Odlo has opened an outlet store in One Nation near...
Odlo has opened an outlet store in One Nation near Paris, which is the biggest factory outlet center in France
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Millet will soon open a store in Paris, taking the...
Millet will soon open a store in Paris, taking the place of a former Lafuma shop
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Growing Zalando invests in research and logistics
Zalando has opened its second “Tech Hub” outside Germany in Helsinki, starting with ten employees this month and building up gradually to 200. The team will concentrate on the development of innovative customer-oriented products, applications and services, particularly on the mobile shopping front. The new Tech Hub will complement the ...
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Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight...
Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight more Outdoor by SportXX stores within its SportXX general sports stores by the end of the year (more in the Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Runners Point, the German retail chain owned by Foot Locker,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain owned by Foot Locker, has moved into the Austrian market with its new, more specialist format, which focuses on running, to the detriment of brands such as Timberland or Vans. Runners Point has opened its first two stores in Austria, located in the SCS ...
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Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, launched its...
Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, launched its web store last month
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Foot Locker has opened a big flagship store in Madrid....
Foot Locker has opened a big flagship store in Madrid. Located at 6 Calle de Preciados, it stretches over 1,500 square meters on three floors. It offers more apparel than Foot Locker's 49 other stores in Spain. It houses a House of Hoops and two dedicated areas for Nike Sportswear. ...
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Zalando cancels B&B consumer festival
As we previously reported, the big Berlin-based e-tailer bought the bankrupt Bread & Butter trade show in the former Tempelhof airport of the German capital a few months ago, saying that it was planning to turn the event into a big consumer-oriented fashion festival. It has now announced the cancellation ...
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New Balance has opened its second store in Barcelona. Presenting...
New Balance has opened its second store in Barcelona. Presenting a new layout, it is located in a high-traffic shopping street of the city, Portal de l'Àngel. It will be the brand's 4th store in Spain. New Balance has also opened its first Portuguese store in Lisbon. Through its French ...
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Surfstitch, the Australian e-commerce group specializing in contemporary surf and...
Surfstitch, the Australian e-commerce group specializing in contemporary surf and fashion brands, will unify its six platforms - Surfstitch.com, Surfdome.com, Swell.com, Stabmag.com, magicseaweed.com and theLens – under the global site Swell in 2016. Surfstitch posted revenues of 199.4 million Australian dollars (€124.7m-$141.4m) in the fiscal year ended June 30, representing ...
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Under Armour has set up a sport corner at the...
Under Armour has set up a sport corner at the Citadium Caumartin shop in Paris, the first for the American brand inside a fashion store. The 35-square-meter space is located on the third floor of the store. It sells both fitness apparel and footwear.
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Alibaba Group Holding has established a new Alibaba Sports Group...
Alibaba Group Holding has established a new Alibaba Sports Group together with Sina Corporation and Yunfeng Capital. The idea is to leverage Alibaba's large e-commerce footprint in China with Sina's media resources to create an integrated, internet-based sports platform for the benefit of the sports industry, sports teams, sports fans ...
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New sports marketing initiatives by Adidas
Adidas is said to be prepared to pay about one billion euros to renew its sponsorship of the German Football Federation for ten years, after the contract expires at the end of 2018. Company officials decline to comment, but the figure seems to be high, although the national German football ...
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Adidas hired Egon Zehnder last February to head-hunt a new...
Adidas hired Egon Zehnder last February to head-hunt a new chief executive to take over the place of Herbert Hainer after his present contract expires in March 2017, according to Bloomberg. The 61-year-old Hainer has been running the group since 2001. Bloomberg quoted a couple of institutional shareholders of Adidas ...
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Adidas filed a suit against Skechers USA in Portland's district...
Adidas filed a suit against Skechers USA in Portland's district court on Sept. 14, charging that one of its shoe styles is a knock-offs of its Stan Smith model, and that others use its Supernova trademark and its Three-Stripe mark. The two companies have already squared off and reached settlements ...
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On Aug. 31, Hervis Sport opened its third store under...
On Aug. 31, Hervis Sport opened its third store under the flag of Hervis Express in Vienna's Westbahnhof (West Station). For the Austrian multi-channel retailer, this format is relatively new. It was premiered in Innsbruck last year followed by similar shop in Prague. The idea is to present the full ...
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Descente will open its first European store in London in...
Descente will open its first European store in London in November. Located at 14-16, Foubert's Place, in the Carnaby Street area of the city, it will fill 700 square meters on three floors. The Japanese brand wants to add three to five more stores at various European locations.
