COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 9, 2026--
Expanding on its retail store network throughout Denmark, Skechers brings its revolutionary performance and lifestyle comfort technologies to Copenhagen with the city’s first Skechers flagship destination. Located in the heart of Amagertorv, the 700-square-meter store showcases the brand’s extensive offering of award-winning product worn by leading athletes around the globe, as well as its renowned innovations like Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins ® and popular styles for all walks of life.
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“Skechers has experienced strong growth in the Nordics, particularly in Denmark. We have established a solid footprint across the region with 32 stores in the country, and our high-profile Copenhagen store has arrived at the right place and time to escalate our presence,” said Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers. “Offering physical galleries where customers can walk in, explore and experience our product firsthand has transformed every part of our brand—from our immersive World of Sports experiences to lifestyle and performance destinations. This all-encompassing flagship store joins our most prominent Skechers destinations around the globe—presenting Nordic consumers with the innovations, comfort, convenience and value that have made Skechers one of Europe’s fastest-growing names in footwear.”
“Our exceptional flagship retail space and Amagertorv’s high-traffic destination make it the perfect setting to connect our signature Comfort That Performs with locals and visitors from around the world,” added Peter Jørgensen, country manager of Skechers Nordics. “Amagertorv provides a premium space with maximum visibility alongside strong international and Danish brands where we can showcase the full breadth of our universe and offer a footwear experience beyond the ordinary.”
A re-imagination of mid-century design illuminated by state-of-the-art digital LED screens, Copenhagen-inspired graphics and even a giant Skechers Slip-ins ® shoe, the modern space showcases the brand’s popular lifestyle footwear collections for every age and activity: from athleisure, fashion, casual and work styles for men and women to a dedicated section for children’s product. The store’s Skechers Performance area offers a gallery of the brand’s innovations, where athletes and enthusiasts can experience the brand’s extensive offering for running, football, golf, court/padel, basketball, and outdoor footwear.
Skechers collections are enhanced with the Company’s comfort innovations and game-changing performance technologies—including its Skechers Hyper Burst Pro ™ Technology, Skechers Performance FitKnit ® Technology, Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins ® Technology, Skechers Glide-Step ® Technology, Skechers Arch Fit ® Technology, Skechers Max Cushioning ® Technology and Skechers Air-Cooled Memory Foam ® Technology. Shoppers will also enjoy a unique Skechers apparel and accessories range that will be new to Denmark.
The global roster of elite pros competing in Skechers footwear now includes Denmark football player Matt O’Riley along with Anthony Elanga, Harry Kane, Mohammed Kudus, Romeo Lavia and Barış Alper Yılmaz; basketball stars Joel Embiid, OG Anunoby, Julius Randle, Isaiah Hartenstein, Jackie Young, Rickea Jackson, and Kiki Iriafen; and golfers Brooke Henderson, Matt Fitzpatrick, Bernhard Langer and Max Greyserman.
The new location at Amagertorv 11, 1160 København K joins four Skechers concept stores in Copenhagen, as well as 27 locations across Denmark. Consumers can also shop at approximately 5,300 Skechers retail stores, online at skechers.dk, and at department stores and footwear retailers around the world.
About Sports Connection ApS and SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc.
Sports Connection ApS is a subsidiary of Skechers U.S.A., Inc., The Comfort Technology Company ® based in Southern California. Skechers designs, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children. The Company’s collections are available in 180 countries and territories through department and specialty stores, and direct to consumers through skechers.com and approximately 5,300 Skechers retail stores. A Fortune 500 ® company, Skechers manages its international business through a network of wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint venture partners, and distributors. For more information, please visit about.skechers.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
The new Skechers flagship retail store in Copenhagen offers the global brand’s extensive footwear, apparel and accessory collections, including Skechers Hands Free Slip-ins®, Skechers Aero Burst®, and many other comfort technologies.
Skechers first flagship store in Copenhagen opens in the heart of Amagertorv.
Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, a likely pressure tactic as Iran, Israel and the United States are now in an uneasy, two-week ceasefire ahead of possible negotiations in Islamabad.
Meanwhile, in unusually strong language, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “unequivocally” condemned Israeli strikes in Lebanon that killed and injured hundreds Wednesday after the ceasefire was announced, according to a statement by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric.
Israel has said the ceasefire agreement does not extend to its war in Lebanon with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, although Iran and mediator Pakistan said it does. Sirens sounded in northern Israel early Thursday as Hezbollah claimed it was attacking with rocket fire.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again Wednesday in response to Israeli attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Here is the latest:
Pakistan has shut schools and government offices for two days in the capital, Islamabad, to keep people off the roads as authorities ramp up security ahead of U.S.-Iran talks later this week.
Officials have imposed sweeping restrictions across the city, including blocking key roads connecting Islamabad with neighboring Rawalpindi.
Shipping containers have been placed at multiple points to restrict movement and limit public access to sensitive areas.
Islamabad appeared unusually quiet Thursday, with many residents staying home as traffic diversions forced longer commutes between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
The restrictions follow recent unrest in March, when protests by Shiite groups erupted across the country in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
More than two dozen people were killed in those demonstrations nationwide.
In Karachi, 12 people were killed when protesters stormed the U.S. consulate and attempted to set it on fire.
The widespread Israeli strikes Wednesday killed at least 182 people and wounded 890 others, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Civil Defense spokesperson Elie Khairallah told The Associated Press that a wounded woman was found alive under the rubble overnight in the seaside Beirut neighborhood of Ain Mreisseh.
A man whose building collapsed after strikes in the capital’s southern suburbs was also found alive in rubble.
“The others so far have been killed,” Khairallah said.
Meanwhile, others like Mohammad Chehab, a Syrian man from Deir el-Zour, are anxiously waiting.
Six of his 10 family members have been found but others are still missing. He tries to stay hopeful.
“They’ve been searching all day,” he said nervously, watching rescue workers dig through the rubble.
Pakistani authorities have stepped-up security in the capital, Islamabad, deploying hundreds of additional police and paramilitary forces ahead of much-awaited peace talks between the United States and Iran.
The talks, seen as a potentially significant diplomatic opening to end the war in the region, will begin later this week.
On Thursday, authorities also moved to seal off parts of the city by placing shipping containers along key roads leading to the city’s Red Zone, a heavily fortified enclave that houses the president and prime minister’s office, the Foreign Ministry, and foreign embassies.
A nearby hotel, where the delegations are expected to stay, has also been brought under tight security.
Iran has not said who will represent its delegation, which is due to arrive in Islamabad later Thursday.
The White House, however, has confirmed that Vice President JD Vance will lead the U.S. negotiating team in talks with Iran aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war.
Iran’s negotiating team for talks with the United States will arrive Thursday night in Islamabad, the Iranian ambassador there said.
Reza Amiri Moghadam made the comment on X, without identifying who was on the Iranian team.
He wrote that the “Iranian delegation arrives tonight in Islamabad for serious talks based on 10 points proposed by Iran.”
Those points include Iran enriching uranium, maintaining its control of the Strait of Hormuz and other issues that have been nonstarters in the past for U.S. President Donald Trump.
The White House has repeatedly described the 10 points issued by Iran as false.
Moghadam wrote that the Iranians would come to Islamabad despite “skepticism of Iranian public opinion due to repeated ceasefire violations by Israeli regime to sabotage the diplomatic initiative.”
That refers to Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, which Israel and the U.S. have said wasn’t included in the shaky ceasefire.
Oil rose again to above $97 a barrel and Asian stocks were trading lower Thursday on skepticism over a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.
Brent crude was up 2.9% to $97.46 per barrel. It previously fell briefly to below $92 following the temporary ceasefire announcement.
Benchmark U.S. crude was 3.7% higher Thursday at $97.94 per barrel.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.8% to 55,855.57, while South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.7% to 5,773.03.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.2% to 25,831.21. The Shanghai Composite index was down 0.8% to 3,961.31.
Ship-tracking data from trade data and analytics platform Kpler showed only four vessels with their Automatic Identification System trackers on passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the first day of the ceasefire.
However, this total does not include so-called “dark fleet” vessels — those with their AIS trackers turned off.
Many of those “dark fleet” ships carry sanctioned Iranian crude oil out to the open market.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an online statement Thursday insisting that his surge of warships and troops will remain around Iran “until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with.”
Trump’s comments on his Truth Social platform appear to be a way to pressure Iran as uncertainty hangs over the tentative two-week ceasefire now holding in the war.
“If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘Shootin’ Starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before,” Trump wrote.
He also insisted Iran would not be able to build nuclear weapons and “the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE.” That comes as vessels are not moving through that waterway, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil and natural gas traded once passed.
A New York-based think tank is warning that the tentative ceasefire in the Iran war “hovers on the verge of collapse.”
The Soufan Center said the Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday risked the deal falling apart.
“Even if Lebanon was formally outside the deal, the scale of Israel’s strikes was likely to be viewed as escalatory, nonetheless,” it wrote in an analysis published Thursday.
“Israel’s strikes can be understood both as an effort to drive a wedge between Iran and its proxies and as a response to being allegedly sidelined in the original ceasefire discussions.”
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound reopened with dawn prayer Thursday after being closed for the duration of the Iran war, according to Jerusalem’s Islamic Waqf, the Jordanian religious authority that administers the compound.
Jerusalem’s police said Wednesday that it would lift restrictions on all holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City starting Thursday morning. It added that hundreds of officers and volunteers would be active in the city.
Access had been prohibited altogether, or restricted to a few dozen faithful, at Christian, Jewish and Muslim sites during the now-paused conflict, when missile attacks from Iran often sent Jerusalem residents into shelters.
The restrictions subdued Lent, Passover and Ramadan celebrations for many in some of the holiest sites for adherents of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
But they’re lifted just in time for Orthodox Christians, who celebrate Easter (Pascha) on Sunday, a week after Catholic and Protestant observances.
FILE - Two police officers walk in front of an anti-U.S. billboard depicting American aircraft being caught by Iranian armed forces in a fishing net beneath the words in Farsi, "The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, The entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground," in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Ali, 4, holds a toy horse next to the tent his family uses as a shelter after fleeing Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Smoke rises following several Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Firefighters, first responders, and volunteers work on smoldering debris at the site of an Israeli airstrike that struck an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
