Sports Business/03/22/2017

Adidas abandons TV commercials and focuses on e-commerce

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Adidas is leaving the TV business and no longer wants to air TV commercials. This is to quadruple e-commerce revenues by 2020, reports the CNBC news channel group.

CEO Kasper Rorsted wants to target communication via digital channels in the future.
CEO Kasper Rorsted wants to target communication via digital channels in the future.

The company plans to focus on digital channels in the future to appeal to younger consumers, a crucial target group for the sporting goods giant.

"Digital communication is key for us, that's why you won't see TV ads anymore," CEO Kasper Rorsted told CNBC.

 

"All of our communication with consumers happens through digital media and we believe that in the next three years our online business can grow from around 1 billion euros to around 4 billion euros and we can create more direct communication with consumers," Rorsted said.

Rorsted took over as head of Adidas last year and has focused his strategy on digital retail sales.

 

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