After a 7-year distribution partnership with Siker Sports, the Swiss sneaker brand will take direct control of its operations on the Spanish market on January 1, having named Jens Ullbrich as sales director Spain.
The UK has announced new measures to try to slow the spread of the new Omicron Covid variant and the country’s top health official said vaccines could be less effective against it.
Visa Inc has complained to the U.S. government that India's "informal and formal" promotion of domestic payments rival RuPay hurts the U.S. giant in a key market, memos seen by Reuters show.
Montreal-based Frank And Oak is ending the year with retail expansion plans including its first foray into China.
Japan's retail sales rose for the first time in three months in October, though less than expected, data showed on Monday, a sign private consumption has yet to pick up strongly despite the easing of COVID-19 curbs.
A senior Amazon.com Inc executive said it remains too early to predict how the Omicron coronavirus variant will impact consumer spending during the holiday season but suggested that shoppers will press ahead for now.
Amazon has partnered with Abu Dhabi Investment Office to establish a fulfilment centre by 2024 to be built in accordance with the company's carbon-reduction strategies, the Abu Dhabi government's media office said.
U.S. shoppers spent less online during Black Friday this year, with many venturing back to physical stores despite coronavirus fears, tight supplies, and retailers' efforts to encourage earlier holiday purchases.
A surge in coronavirus cases in Germany has led to a disappointing start to the Christmas season for retailers in Europe's biggest economy, the sector body said on Sunday.
The California-based board sports equipment group has reportedly named Deborah Palmer Keiser as its new chief operating officer.
Black Friday spending volumes exceeded those of both 2020 and the pre-pandemic shopping day in 2019, Barclaycard said as stores closed on Friday.
Fast-expanding high-end trainers retailer Kick Game is continuing its physical and digital stores growth in its bid to help it achieve revenues of £50 million by 2022. It's latest store opens in Manchester in December.
As pop-up stores go, this is one of the briefest but brightest. For two days (26-28 November) emerging designer Mowalola Ogunlesi hosts her first (albeit temporary) store at the Dray Walk Gallery in Shoreditch, London.
The American sportswear giant has been hit by sneaker sourcing issues, like Puma and Adidas, both foreseeing inventory problems, and has cancelled the orders placed by some retailers, according to a US source.
Roland Mouret has placed his fashion company into administration, a move widely expected after the business was crushed by the pandemic.
