© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A buyer is mirrored in a store window embellished with Nike retailer brand on the outlet village Belaya Dacha exterior Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2016. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
(This March 11 story corrects to say “not less than six impartial shops” as an alternative of “many” shops; provides particulars on Nike (NYSE:)’s March 3 assertion about suspension of operations in Russia)
By Richa Naidu
LONDON (Reuters) – At the least six impartial Nike shops in Russia had been open on Friday afternoon, in accordance with checks made by Reuters, greater than per week after the world’s greatest sports activities retailer stated it was briefly closing all its retailers within the nation.
Beaverton, Oregon-based Nike stated the shops that had been open are owned and operated by impartial companions.
Nike stated on March 3 that it will briefly droop operations in any respect its Nike-owned and -operated shops in Russia, becoming a member of a number of Western manufacturers that did so following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters couldn’t instantly decide the whole variety of impartial, accomplice shops that had been open on Friday. Nike has roughly 100 shops within the Russian Federation, in accordance with the shop listing on its web site, which confirmed that each one of them had been “open.” A Nike spokesperson stated Friday that Nike is “updating” its on-line retailer locator “to mirror our retailer closures.”
Days previous to Nike’s announcement that shops would briefly shut, Nike made merchandise purchases on its web site and app unavailable in Russia and directed its prospects within the nation to brick-and-mortar shops as an alternative.
Nike is offering continuity pay for workers within the shops it closed, the Nike spokesperson stated Friday.
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