Cape Town, W. Cape, SA – Miles O’Brien went to Progress College in Rondebosch and studied marketing at Cape Technikon. His first job was at Standard Bank in Plumstead for a short period of time, then onto the City Tramways for 10 years.Sportshoe was owned by Benny Stoltzman (who also owned Vogue Shoes) who had the agency for A ...more

This is my last contribution to this series of events. I have thoroughly enjoyed stepping back into the days when travelling to find new designs was real travel.My final contribution is to say that with all that happened there were a lot of positives also achieved. I managed to visit some international manufacturing facilit ...more

Adidas is under scrutiny in Mexico over its “Oaxaca Slip-On” sandal, which officials say closely resembles the traditional huaraches of the Zapotec people. Cultural appropriation — taking elements from another culture, often without credit or fair compensation — is at the centre of the dispute. While such appropria ...more

Cape Town, W. Cape, SA - Mike’s Sports – 76 this year and with a fourth generation Augoustides family member, Luka, in the management team – will officially reopen its store within a month. In fact, the revamped, 2-floor, 350 m² store has been trading since May, but the event will coincide with the return to the she ...more

Tom Brown is senior brand director at Adidas. He answered our questions.Is Adidas targeting technical running internationally, or is this mainly in SA?Technical running is a proud cornerstone of the adidas business internationally and we constantly endeavour to develop the best products and work with the best athletes and events. Last yea ...more

On 29 April 2025, more than 70 major footwear companies — including Nike, Adidas, Skechers, Puma, and Crocs — signed a joint letter to President Donald Trump, urgently requesting that footwear be removed from the list of products subject to new reciprocal tariffs. These companies warned that the added tariff burden poses a ser ...more

Adidas, a dominating force in the sportswear and footwear sector, has successfully achieved a perfect equilibrium, with an equal split between traditional brick-and-mortar and cutting-edge e-commerce sales, as outlined in a recent report by Retail Brew. The intriguing question arises: what factors could have propelled this surge in o ...more

According to a report in Biz Community, Adidas South Africa has opened a new Home of Sport concept store in Durban, at Gateway Shopping Centre. It's the first of its kind on the African continent, and with a retail footprint of 1687 square meters, it's also the largest Adidas store in Africa.The Home of Sport concept is rooted in sport cu ...more

Cape Town, W. Cape, SA - Adidas AG will lose between €1 billion and €1.5 billion in annual sales of Yeezy product following the split last week, according to a report in Bloomberg, which also said it had been "too slow to walk away from Kanye's controversies""The company said the termination would have a short-ter ...more

Cape Town, W. Cape, SA – On 03 January, Footwear News speculated on the effects of late deliveries as follows:As the new year kicks off, these chains will likely continue to benefit from the port congestion, factory shutdowns and labour shortages that prevented many retailers from receiving inventory in time for various shopping eve ...more

Edcon deal will take it to close to 200 storesCape Town, W Cape, SA – A lot of things have come together for retailer Footgear in the last 2 months.       On June 6, Old Mutual Private Equity (OMPE), the direct private equity investing arm of Old Mutual Alternative Investments, announced the acqu ...more