Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 85
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+++ The Russian-based Sportmaster Group denies a report that its newly acquired Danish Sportmaster subsidiary is shutting down its seven Rezet sneaker stores +++ Adidas Originals has opened a flagship store in London’s trendy Carnaby Street, featuring some exclusive product releases +++
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Analysis
Analysis: The 10 major European sports retailers online
The online retail business in the sporting goods sector has been growing stronger and stronger in recent years, find out which players are the real winners.
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Decathlon opens a shop-in-shop at Auchan in Orléans
Decathlon has inaugurated its first shop-in-shop in collaboration with the Auchan chain of hypermarkets. Both retail banners are controlled by the Mulliez family and many of their stores in certain countries are located in the same shopping malls. The new Decathlon shop-in-shop is located at the Auchan hypermarket in Saint-Jean ...
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Blue Tomato expands in Finland
Blue Tomato is opening its second and third stores in Finland, a country where many customers have been ordering from its website for many years. The Austrian-based action sports retailer owned by Zumiez started working offline there a year ago with a shop in Helsinki. New ones will follow in ...
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Adidas holds digital festival for loyalty program members
Adidas has launched a “digital festival” for its loyalty program. Creators Club Week runs for seven days from Oct. 13 and is, according to the company, the first event of its kind. Adidas’ “global member community” will be privy to the company’s largest single introduction of exclusive and limited-edition ...
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eBay to certify sneakers, like StockX and others
Joining the likes of StockX, the online resale exchange for sneakers and streetwear, eBay will be testing all new and used sneakers sold on its platform in the U.S for $100 or more from this month onward to ensure that they are genuine. Those that pass will receive its Authenticity ...
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Burton opens new Hub in Stockholm, appoints new managers for the Nordics
Burton Snowboards will open a new multi-use space, referred to as the Burton Hub, at Norrlandsgatan 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 15. After establishing the concept of combining retail store, showroom, and office spaces already in Innsbruck, Munich, and Zurich, the company now expands to Scandinavia. The new Burton ...
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Zalando raises its own expectations
Zalando is performing better than expected. It is now projecting an adjusted operating profit (Ebit) of between €375 million and €425 million for the full 2020 financial year on an increase in total revenues of between 20 and 22 percent. As usual, the growth will be driven by an increase ...
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4F emerges in Ukraine
One of the major Polish sports apparel brands, 4F, has emerged on the Ukrainian market by opening its first store in the country through Epicenter K, which has become 4F’s exclusive partner in the country. The first store is located in Kiev, and by the end of 2020, Epicenter plans ...
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Foot Locker partners with Adyen for online and in-store payments
Foot Locker is expanding its relationship with Adyen to various markets internationally for in-store and online payments. The international athletic footwear retailer has been working with Adyen since 2018. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Adyen has offices across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
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Infographics & Data
Ranking - The largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe
This exclusive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by website visitors. Included are sporting goods retailer and e-tailer. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Covid boosted online sales of sports goods in Spain
A survey that IAB Spain and Elogia conducted online in June of this year suggests that 15 percent of Spanish e-commerce consumers, aged 16 to 70, purchased sporting goods during the coronavirus quarantines. Streaming services also drew 15 percent. The product of choice, however, was food (48%), followed by household ...
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Intersport settles with creditors in Sweden at 75%
Intersport Sverige says it expects to come out of insolvency proceedings before the end of October, along with its Löplabet chain of running stores and another subsidiary, following the approval of a settlement by 99 percent of its creditors. We have learnt that they agreed to write off 75 percent ...
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Zalando launches Brand Homes for more customer engagement
Zalando has launched a new offer, called Brand Homes, that allows brands to supply high-quality and directly curated content to lead customers to engage with them on its website longer and more frequently, or to discover them for the first time. The service is also meant to enrich the customer ...
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Amanda Rajkumar will run HR for Adidas
Amanda Rajkumar, a 48-year-old British national with 24 years of experience in human relations at other global organizations, is taking the place of Karen Parkin at the Adidas Group as the executive board member in charge of global human relations, overseeing a staff of nearly 60,000 people. She will be ...
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Adidas founds the Football Collective
Adidas has launched the Football Collective in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. A form of federation of local individuals and clubs, the Football Collective intends to foster social changes through football. It will be working with local initiatives already set up under the Adidas Football Collective ...
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The pandemic forces fashion and retail to rethink their business models
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated changes in consumer attitudes toward fashion and retail, and calls are getting louder for “something to be done,” such as fewer collections, less fast fashion and more attention to sustainability.
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Decathlon benefits from multi-channel model in Germany
Decathlon Germany will close the 2020 fiscal year with seven new openings and two expansions. They will more than offset the closure of five units including the French company’s first outlet in the country, opened in 1986 in the Kley district of Dortmund, and the small Decathlon Connect store opened ...
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+++ Burton Snowboards’ first Scandinavian store has opened in Stockholm, taking the place of a former bike and coffee shop at Norrlandsgatan 20 +++ Oct. 16 is the date set for the opening Goldwin’s first European flagship store in Munich’s Schäfferhof +++ Canada Goose is set to open its first ...
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Adidas completes green bond offer
Adidas has announced the successful placement of its first sustainability bond, whose offer was more than five times oversubscribed. The €500 million bond carries a 0.00 percent coupon and has a duration of eight years. It is divided into five equal tranches and will be listed on the Luxembourg Stock ...