Sportswear retailer Lids has launched a new, reinvented store concept specially designed to enhance the shopping experience. Focusing on personalization, the revised store format includes a modernized layout and a customization zone alongside a broader range of localized and exclusive products. The retail concept places greater emphasis on...
Apr 17, 2025
Sportswear retailer Lids has opened a new store under its retail concept, Lids HD, in Los Angeles, California, marking its third Lids HD store to open date. Short for 'Lids Hat Drop,' the new store is the physical version of an online concept developed and launched by the retailer in 2022. Offering all types of sportswear hats, from baseball...
Mar 25, 2025
Lids has appointed Greg Cox as its new chief financial officer, a step up from his previous accounting and finance leadership roles he has held at the US sports retailer, where he has been for eight years. In his new role, Cox has been tasked with overseeing the company’s finance, loss prevention, human resources and information technology...
Feb 21, 2025
US sportswear retailer Lids is believed to be on the verge of exiting the UK market just three years after opening its first stores there. It has been reported by Drapers that the company is currently in negotiations with landlords to end its leases, with all UK stores from the brand expected to close upon agreements. Lids debuted in the UK in...
Dec 23, 2024
Football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is extending its long-term partnership with Lids and Fanatics with the opening of a new store location in Las Vegas. Lids has been operating the French football club’s retail network since the duo debuted PSG’s first permanent store in Los Angeles in 2021, later adding locations in New York, Miami and...
Jul 31, 2023
Sports retailer Lids has appointed Ariel Sandler as its head of brand and collaborations. Sandler, who has previously helped lead brand and marketing efforts for the NBA, New Era and StockX, will be responsible for leading Lids’ new branding department across partnerships, activations, and brand development. Commenting on her new role, Sandler...
Jun 20, 2023
Sportswear retailer Lids has announced that Bob Durba, its current senior vice president, merchandising, has been promoted to the position of president. Durda has been at the company over the course of 13 years, first joining as buying director in 2009, after his own brand Sport Fan-Attic was acquired by Lids, and later becoming vice president...
May 25, 2023
Sports retailer Lids has unveiled its newest retail concept at the first store in Queens, New York. ‘Lids Hat Drop’ comes as a brick and mortar iteration of an online concept the brand launched under the same name earlier this year. With a focus on hats, from baseball caps to beanies, the space will honour Jamaica, Queens, and its history with...
Dec 12, 2022
Following its entry into the European market late last year, US sportswear retailer Lids is expanding into Germany with the planned opening of 20 standalone stores. The company will start by opening three Berlin locations in the coming weeks, with stores in other cities to follow, including in Bremen, Dresden, and Hamburg. The Indianapolis-based...
Jun 14, 2022
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Fanatics, a digital sports platform and global provider of licensed sports merchandise, have announced they are opening the first NBA store in Paris this summer. The store will be operated by retail giant Lids and located at 20 Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris’s Latin Quarter and will mark the third...
Apr 11, 2022
Sports retailer Lids has opened its first store in Europe. Aiming to expand its international presence through brick-and-mortar stores, the brand has debuted in England with four locations. Having already opened in Seven Dials in London, the locations of the Icon Outlet at The O2, London, Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex and Churchill Square...
Dec 6, 2021
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Fanatics, a global leader in licensed sports merchandise, has opened the first NBA Store in the UK, on London’s well-known pedestrian shopping area Carnaby, Soho. The new two-floor store, located at 14-16 Foubert’s Place in London, is being operated by retail giant Lids, the largest licensed sports...
Jul 19, 2021