Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 66
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Intersport matched 2019 levels in the first nine months of 2021
Steve Evers, CEO of Intersport International Corp., tells us that the international retail network of Intersport returned to the 2019 level of €8.5 billion (including VAT) in the first nine months of 2021. The retail sales of the affiliated stores went up by 12.6 percent in the third quarter as ...
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Zalando more than triples its fleet of Magazino robots
Zalando has ordered 20 order picking robots specifically designed for the footwear industry from the German start-up Magazino. Zalando, which has invested in Magazino, initially bought two of the robots called Toru in 2018, before increasing the fleet by an additional six in 2019. Once the latest robots are fully ...
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Bike delivery problems sink XXL’s results
Delays in deliveries of bicycles continued to negatively affect the sales performance of XXL ASA, whose revenues in the third quarter declined by 4.8 percent to 2,688 million Norwegian kroner (€276.1m-$321.2), with a drop of 4.0 percent on a comparable store basis. As its profit margins were also squeezed, resulting ...
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News briefsWeSports buys a Swedish Nordic ski retail specialist
After its recent acquisition of the Finnish water sports equipment supplier Finwake in September, WeSports, a Stockholm-based group of individual sports, outdoor and mobility companies operating both online and with physical stores and product brands, has completed the acquisition of a Swedish sports retailer, Pölder Sport AB. Founded in 1990, ...
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Updated: Decathlon will launch a new “Decathlon Mountain” store franchising project in France and Switzerland
Decathlon is about to open two pilot stores in France and Switzerland for a new “Decathlon Mountain” concept that it plans to franchise in about 15 mountain resorts in the two countries. They will be selling only Decathlon products from the retailer’s huge range of private label items for winter ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters will leave Sport 2000
Hans-Hermann Deters, an iconic figure in the German sporting goods market, is planning to leave the position of joint general manager of Sport 2000 GmbH next March 31, after seven and a half years of successful work with the retail organization, where he reinforced its specialist orientation. At the age ...
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Zalando launches Connected Retail in Italy
Zalando is launching its Connected Retail program in Italy, offering a reduced commission until the end of the year to the physical retailers that wish to join its online marketplace. Like in 12 countries where this service is already available, the goods will be ordered through Zalando’s website and delivered ...
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Top JD managers get stock options
JD Sports Fashion has granted performance-based stock options to Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the company, and Neil Greenhalgh, chief financial officer, under the company’s 2021 Long Term Incentive Plan. The options will become ordinarily vested in five years’ time, subject to the achievement of certain performance conditions. Cowgill got ...
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JD acquires control of a Greek retailer
JD Sports Fashion has further expended its presence in Europe by acquiring 80 percent of Cosmos Sport, a retailing group that operates 57 stores in Greece and three in Cyprus under various banners, associated with web stores. Of these, 32 are under the Cosmos banner, offering an “elevated sporting goods ...
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ArticleSport 2000 is market leader in Austria for the first time
Presenting the results of a large nationwide study by the market research company Regio Plan. Holger Schwarting, CEO of Sport 2000 Austria, confirmed that his cooperative was able to secure market leadership in Austria for the first time in 2020 with a market share of 33.6 percent, followed by Intersport ...
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XXL adopts RFID tags
According to the British trade magazine Retail Technology, XXL ASA has begun to use RFID tags to track its inventory. With the help of a Scandinavian firm, Securitas, it has adopted Nedap’s iD Cloud platform throughout Norway and plans to roll it out to its 89 other megastores in various ...
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Decathlon is making new environmental pledges for 2026
Decathlon says it has spent the past two years working with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to bring its design, production and distribution into line with the Paris Agreement on the earth’s climate. It says that its carbon intensity (tCO2e per euro) has declined by 10 ...
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ArticleSome French employees strike over pay at Decathlon
The CFDT called on Decathlon’s employees to go on a national strike in France on Saturday, Oct. 16. The union, third largest by employee representation, is seeking to raise employee compensation in view of this year’s “record profits” at the French producer and retailer of sporting goods. According to a ...
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Hervis Team Run raises €100,000 for Austria’s Sports Aid
Hervis Sport, the Austrian sports retail chain, has raised a total of €100,000 for Österreichische Sportshilfe, an organization that helps breed international sports talents, with this year’s edition of its “Hervis Team Run.” Nine provincial teams and one celebrity team took part in the nationwide campaign, running for a total ...
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News briefsFoot Locker to launch new proprietary apparel line
Foot Locker is launching a new clothing line called LCKR by Foot Locker that ”merges sneaker and sports culture with the heritage of Foot Locker to bring a new iteration of casual wear to the market.” The launch is supported by U.S. rapper and activist Gunna, the first promotional protagonist ...
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Canada Goose opens pop-up in Manchester
Canada Goose has opened a pop-up location on New Cathedral Street in the English city of Manchester. The pop-up is hosting an installation for the senses called “Live in the Open,” with a storytelling platform, to urge “the community to connect with the world around outside;” an exhibition of photographs, ...
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Poshmark boosts its sneaker authentication process by buying Suede One
Poshmark, a California-based marketplace for second-hand fashion products, has acquired a virtual sneaker authentication platform called Suede One. The price of the takeover was not disclosed. Founded in 2020, the latter is said to achieve 99 percent accuracy in recognizing popular models such as those of Jordan and Yeezy by ...
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ArticleTwo new top managers for Intersport International
Christian Wille, a 43-year-old German citizen who holds a university degree in international finance, will take the place of Martin Künzi as chief financial officer of Intersport International Corp. (IIC) as of January 2022. He will join IIC’s executive management board at the same time as Mateja Jesenek, a 54-year-old ...
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Fabletics opens a first store outside the U.S.
Fabletics’ latest store is also, reports Fashion Network, its first one abroad. The U.S. brand has settled on Germany – one of the brand’s top markets, according to its managing director for Europe, Gerrit Müller – to begin its international expansion. The new store is located on the Kurfürstendamm, the ...
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Signa Sports United to launch AI-based virtual bike fitting engine
Signa Sports United (SSU), the German-based sports e-commerce platform that owns several websites for the sale of bicycles, has entered a strategic partnership with Motesque, a specialist startup for biomechanics, computer vision and AI, to launch what they claim will be the first biomechanical AI-based virtual bike fitting engine ...
