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UK company JD Sports Fashion has engaged influencer marketing firm Rocketfuel Entertainment to help develop digital content for its brand in Malaysia. JD carries brands such as Adidas, New Balance and Nike as well as in-house labels Brookhaven, Pink Soda,…
French luxury brand Chanel has launched a capsule featuring 500 pairs of €1000 (US$1185) sneakers to celebrate its takeover of French high-fashion streetwear retailer Colette. Courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld, the sneakers are part of singer Pharrell Williams…
AW Lab Singapore has opened a store in Suntec City, the first brick-and-mortar outlet in Asia Pacific for the Italian sports apparel retailer. Covering 2630sqft (240sqm), the store has a futuristic concept that invites young people to “play with style”.…
Kanye West’s Yeezy x Adidas footwear line has witnessed paramount success and a Chinese business showed just how far brands are willing to go to get a piece of the pie. This week in Wenzhou, China, a brick-and-mortar location opened to the public, selling…
Sports Central’s new Adidas HomeCourt Concept Store on the ground floor of the SM Megamall in Ortigas, Metro Manila, brings together innovation in both design and retail. Covering 279sqm, the store is designed as a retail space offering a sporting arena…
The Adidas Originals Seoul flagship store, which closed last Monday, will open on July 28 again. Adidas Korea renewed its flagship store and reopened to commemorate the third anniversary of the opening of this year. “Adidas Originals” will provide consumers…
As apparel and footwear industries rely heavily on outsourcing, sportswear companies have faced growing scrutiny. Adidas executive Aditi Wanchoo is on a mission – to wipe out any slavery in the German sportswear company’s supply chain, and she hopes giving…
Adidas AG plans to open 2,000 new stores in China by 2020, after the sports group’s business in the Asian nation grew nearly 30% last year, making it the second-largest market in the world after Western Europe. According to local media reports, Adidas AG –…
Octogenarian Wang Deshun, a silver-haired actor known as “China’s hottest grandpa”, is Reebok China’s newest brand ambassador. Wang, who was born in Shenyang in 1936, stars in the sports brand’s latest Chinese video campaign “Be More Human” alongside actress…
Adidas Group wants to kick off its expansion in China on the right foot. The sportswear brand plans to bolster its retail sales network to 12,000 outlets in China by 2020, with much of the growth slated for smaller cities. However, the company also knows that…
Nike boosted earnings by 20.1 per cent in its latest quarter, on sales up a much more modest 5 per cent. While the bottom line was impressive – aided by a substantial reduction in costs – the top line growth trailed Adidas’ impressive 18 per cent growth…
Adidas sales have soared 18 per cent last year as the German sportswear brand plays catch-up with America’s Nike. For the first time in its history, Adidas’ net income topped euro 1 billion. In Greater China, sales soared 28 per cent year-on-year. “These…
New York-based architecture and urban planning firm Laguarda.Low Architects has completed the first phase of Europark, a 3 million sqft (280,000 sqm) mixed-use complex in Dalian. Set on a landscaped park in the heart of Donggang’s CBD, Europark Dalian…
Police in Bangkok have arrested two drivers who delivered nearly 7000 counterfeit items to Lumpini Park. Police chief Sanit Mahathavorn says the two drivers were taken into custody after a routine search of the parked bus. Hat Thongbu from Chainat and Niran…
Food and beverage and lifestyle is driving Hong Kong retail innovation, says property expert Shaun McManus with JLL Hong Kong. “The activewear and sports apparel sector has been a front-runner in elevating in-store experiences for shoppers,” McManus, who…
The prime shopping hubs of Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui, among the most expensive in Hong Kong in terms of rental costs, remain attractive for retailers amid overall sluggishness in the sector. Retail rents in Causeway Bay fell 8 per cent in the rental…
