Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 95
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Umbro opens e-commerce shop in Italy
In keeping with its overall digitalization, Umbro has just expanded its e-commerce operations to Italy. According to its social media manager, Marina Amoruso, Italy is a key market for Umbro. To launch this e-tail shop, the British sportswear brand established a partnership with an enterprise cloud commerce platform called Kooomo, ...
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Zalando expects less revenues and profit due to corona pandemic
As we had previously indicated, the shutdown of many brick-and-mortar stores because of the coronavirus epidemic doesn’t necessarily imply a boost in the sales of pure online retailers. As Zalando announced on March 30, it is now projecting significantly less revenues, a smaller gross merchandise volume (GMV) and a lower ...
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Alltricks goes offline
Alltricks, the French-based e-tailer controlled by the Decathlon group since last September, is planning to open its fourth brick-and-mortar store. According to reports in sport-guide.com, the new Alltricks store will be located in Lyon-Bron, near a Decathlon store. With a surface of 280 square meters, it will be smaller than ...
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Asos teams up with Nike for the Re:Set Lab
As reported by Fashion Network, Asos and Nike recently invited customers to take part in immersive or high-intensity classes in exercise, yoga, meditation, and arts and crafts such as candle-making, make-up application, terrarium set-up and illustration. The event, called Re:Set Lab, was held from Feb. 28 to March 1 at ...
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ArticleDaka Sport acquires Sportsworld
Daka Sport says it will become the largest independent, family-owned sporting goods retailer in the Dutch market in terms of sales and sales surface area following an agreement to take over the three remaining mega-stores of Sportsworld in the country and their 100-plus employees.
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With higher sales and visits, Zalando pushes its marketplace
Zalando’s momentum keeps going, and the e-tailer is looking at new ways to grow after posting strong results for the fourth quarter of the year. One of the highlights was a jump in the number of site visits, which progressed by 31.9 percent to 960.7 million.
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Maus Frères creates a new group around Lacoste
Maus Frères Holding, the Swiss retail and wholesale conglomerate, has created a new entity, the MF Brands Group, or MF Group, to put together Lacoste, Tecnifibre, Aigle and its other sports and fashion brands under common management for greater “coherence, integration and internationalization.” The company, which was previously called Maus ...
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ArticleAdidas posts strong results, but warns about coronavirus impact
The year 2019 was a pretty good one for the Adidas Group. On March 11, the company reported revenue gains in all the regions, with Europe returning to growth, and strong increases in direct-to-consumer sales, while profit margins improved. However, the share price tumbled by about 10 percent as the ...
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Adidas changes its practices in Spain
Adidas has avoided a fine from the Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) in exchange for voluntary changes to its franchising policy. The commission opened an inquiry after a franchisee in Spain accused the company of anti-competitive practices in November 2018. In essence, Adidas had different contracts in ...
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ArticleNautilus re-launches its digital platform
Significant reductions in expenses in the fourth quarter helped Nautilus to reach a net income of $3.5 million, up from $1.4 million for the same period a year ago, in spite of sharply reduced revenues and a lower gross margin.
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ArticleCoronavirus depresses Adidas’ and others’ sales in China
COVID-19 or the novel cronavirus, as the virus is now named, has already infected more than 79,000 people in 30 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization, but it remains largely concentrated in China. While it has been expanding at a slower rate recently in the country, ...
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Patagonia Opens Second U.K. Store
Patagonia opened its second store in the U.K. earlier this month, in Bristol. It already has one in Manchester. The new 280-square-meter brand store will not only present the collections from the outdoor sports segments, covering climbing, snow sports, surfing and trail running, but will also serve as a meeting ...
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JD celebrates the Superstar with Adidas
JD Sports Fashion, the U.K.-based retailer, and Kano, the British rapper, are helping Adidas to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Superstar shoe. Their collaboration, called “3 Bar Superstar,” amounts to a talent search. This February, a mobile recording booth has been stopping at three malls in the U.K. – ...
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Coronavirus depresses Adidas’ sales in China
Updating investors on the effects of the coronavirus on its business, Adidas said that it performed well in China during the first three weeks of 2020 but has since suffered a decline of about 85 percent as compared to the same period of last year. A number of the German ...
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Bertelsmann’s CEO is slated to be Adidas’ new chairman
The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has recommended the election of Thomas Rabe, who has been the chairman and chief executive of Bertelsmann since 2012, as its new chairman at the company’s annual meeting on May 9. Bertelsmann is a global German media, education and service group whose Ebitda ...
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JD’s acquisition of Footasylum hits anti-trust hurdle
Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct, must be jumping with joy at getting his way with his criticism of JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition of Footasylum last April, which is again being questioned by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA launched a review of the case ...
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Infographics & DataAnalysis - Online traffic of the leading Scandinavian retailers
This exclusive chart shows the online traffic of the leading Scandinavian retailers in Q4 2019. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Internetstores grows by 30%
Internetstores, a subsidiary of Signa Sports United, recorded total sales of €373 million in 2019. The online retailer reported that its sales increased by 30 percent over the past three years. This online retail platform for bike and outdoor products, which owns the Fahrrad.de, Brügelmann, Bikester, Probikeshop, Campz and Addnature ...
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Magasin du Nord expands internationally
Online retailing is developing rapidly in Scandinavia. Magasin du Nord, the Danish department store organization, is planning to open web stores in various parts of Europe, as it did in Sweden in November. This year, according to Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest daily newspaper, it will start with Norway and continue with ...
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H&M wins court fight against Adidas
H&M, which is moving more strongly into men’s activewear, has won a long-standing case against Adidas at the Court of Appeal in The Hague, which has ruled that the dual stripe design on its apparel didn’t infringe on Adidas’ three-stripe trademark. The court has also found that the proportions of ...
