Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 99
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Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante,...
Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante, which has been redesigned in accordance with the brand's Le Club concept. The 350-square-meter store, on two floors, was inaugurated on Dec. 5. “Le Club” is the format that Lacoste launched internationally in 2017, to enable a customer's total immersion ...
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Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech...
Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech Republic, a market that the e-tailer entered in the summer of 2018. Zalando Lounge, which has more than 25 million members in 14 European countries already, offers discounts of up to 75 percent on a selection of shoes, clothing and ...
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Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD...
Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has expanded its e-tail page into an e-commerce marketplace, adding some 500 brands and 50,000 products to the catalog. Sprinter will now be hosting the sale of hoverboards and electric skates, for instance. Existing categories, such as cycling, ...
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Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental...
Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental store at CF Sherway Gardens, a mall near Toronto. Called “The Journey,” it has no products in its inventory, and it will treat customers to daily synthetic snowstorms. The store uses OLED TV displays, 4K laser applications, rock walls and ...
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Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United...
Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United that will give the Chinese e-commerce giant exclusive rights to share club contents in China across the group's platforms
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Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster...
Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster and Decathlon and a major distributor of foreign sports brands, has opened a new store in the city of Omsk, one of the biggest cities in Siberia. This is the company's second store in the city. As of today, the ...
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After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is...
After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is prepared to pay rent of €6 million per year for a store on Paris' avenue des Champs-Elysées, according to fashionmagazine.it
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Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel...
Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel collection inspired by street culture. The unusual style is meant to break down the typical notion of what golf fashion should look like, combined with the performance features that wearers need on-course.
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Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of...
Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of the Threshold Trail Series in 2020. The Threshold Trail Series is a series of four endurance trail events in the U.K., each offering a variety of terrains, gradients, elevations, landscapes and distances. The four events include: Heineken Race to the ...
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Intersport’s internet platform widens its reach
After doing its own thing in the area of e-commerce, as the Intersport organizations in France and some other countries are still doing, Intersport Germany has decided to take part in the international development of Intersport 2.0, the omni-channel digitalization strategy of Intersport International Corporation (IIC).
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J. Lindeberg has opened a new store in the Illum...
J. Lindeberg has opened a new store in the Illum shopping center of Copenhagen
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ArticleGood sales momentum for Foot Locker
Foot Locker reported a 5.7 percent increase in comparable store sales for the third quarter ended on Nov. 2, indicating an improvement from the previous quarters as the increase for the first nine months of the year was only 3.8 percent. However, the management predicts that the increase on a ...
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Zalando is raising standards and fees
Zalando has taken a series of measures to make its delivery services more efficient, to increase revenues and profitability, and to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. One such measure is to terminate home pick-up for premium German customers who wish to return items. This service, which was part ...
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Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global...
Nike, the NFL and Fanatics have signed a new global partnership that extends Fanatics' exclusive consumer product licensing rights to manufacture and distribute all Nike NFL adult products worldwide. The new agreement is an upgrade to the deal they signed in 2018, which covered only the U.S.
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With three more stores due to open in Spain next...
With three more stores due to open in Spain next month, Courir will be meeting its goal of operating 15 stores in Spain before the year is out. It will have opened 11 during 2019. The 12th of these opened just a few days ago at the X-Madrid “anti-mall” in ...
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CMDsport reports that the management of Deportes Cronos has spent...
CMDsport reports that the management of Deportes Cronos has spent the year strategizing to make up for a projected loss in revenue of about €4 million next year, when it will stop distributing Nike products to its associated retailers. The American sports giant has determined that from now on retailers ...
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China’s Topsports doesn’t disappoint with first results since IPO
After raising $1.01 billion in an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange last month, Topsports International Holdings, the sports retailing arm of Belle International, published strong results for the six months ended on Aug. 31. Sales rose by 12.4 percent as compared to the year-ago period to ...
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Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up...
Bringing its Genius project to Germany, Moncler opened a pop-up store in Breuninger's main department store in Stuttgart on Nov. 7. Under this project, the Italian designer apparel and lifestyle brand will feature collaborations with various designers, such as Poldo, the dog couture brand, Craig Green, the British designer, and ...
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Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store...
Peloton, the U.S. fitness brand, has launched a pop-up store concept with Sport Schuster, the big Munich-based sports retailer. Since Nov. 20, the fitness brand has been presenting new indoor bikes with fixed screens in Sport Schuster's store in the center of Munich. Peloton is producing training content for the ...
