Topline German sportswear giant Adidas unveiled plans to slash its dividend on Wednesday, reiterating warnings the company could face its first annual loss in decades following the costly decision to ...
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Biden Weighs In On Kanye Controversy
Topline In his first response to a torrent of antisemitic remarks spewed by controversial rapper Kanye West, President Joe Biden called out political leaders for giving antisemitism a platform, arguin...
Elon Musk Suspends Kanye West On Twitter For ‘Incitement To Violence’ After Swastika Post
Topline Kanye West, also known as Ye, has been banned from Twitter again after sharing an image combining the Star of David and a swastika, billionaire owner Elon Musk announced Friday—it’s the latest...
Kanye West—Under Misconduct Investigation By Adidas—Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign. Here’s What To Know.
Topline Kanye West announced his 2024 presidential campaign on Friday and claimed he asked former President Donald Trump to be his running mate, just as Adidas—which carried his Yeezy-brand clothing—l...
Zero Tolerance For Hate Speech, Nike And Adidas Step Up
Kyrie Irving loses deal with Nike including the cancellation of the Kyrie 8 shoe launch (Photo by … [+] Dustin Satloff/Getty Images) Getty Images Nike and Adidas are sending a clear message to t...
Foot Locker Suffers A One-Two Punch As It Cuts Ties With Yeezy And Nike Pulls Back
Ye Getty Images for BET Foot Locker was already reckoning with the difficult reality that Nike is pumping the breaks on its relationship and wants to sell significantly fewer shoes in its stores. Then...
Adidas Implements Hiring Freeze, But No Layoffs, Amid Split With Kanye
Illustration by Forbes; Photos by Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images; Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images Adidas has initiated a hiring freeze but suggested it does not plan to conduct layoffs after it cut ties ...
Chaos, Antisemitism, ‘White Lives Matter’ — And Steady, Unbothered Sales
Jamel Toppin/The Forbes Collection Hateful rhetoric isn’t putting a pinch on resales of Adidas’ Yeezy sneakers — at least not yet. Ye, the billionaire music entrepreneur and fashion designer previousl...
What Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Can Tell Us About Financial Market Regulation
Hand is turning a dice and changes the direction of an arrow symbolizing that the value of the … [+] crypto currency Ethereum (ETH) is going up (or vice versa) getty The week after the Securitie...
Kanye Says His Catalog Put Up For Sale Without His Knowledge—‘Just Like Taylor Swift’
Topline Ye, otherwise known as Kanye West, said Tuesday his publishing catalog “is being put up for sale without my knowledge,” one day after Billboard reported the rapper is seeking a monumental valu...
Light, Liberation, Fire And Freedom
Nick Knight, used with permission, courtesy of YZY. Nick Knight The following is based on my one-hour conversation with Ye. Light helps us see in the dark, but it can blind us too, just like how fire ...
Gap Can’t Afford To Let Kanye West And Yeezy Go
“This is not celebrity marketing. This is not a collaboration. This is a life mission,” Ye said. (AP … [+] Photo/Michael Wyke) Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Whe...
Kanye West Says He’s Releasing His 11th Studio Album, ‘Donda 2,’ Next Month
Topline Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, announced Thursday he plans to release a new album next month, a follow up to Donda, his most-recent work and a tribute to his late mother. Ye att...
Adidas Cuts Ties With Kanye West After Anti-Semitic Comments
Topline Sportswear giant Adidas on Tuesday announced it has cut ties with rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, over a series of offensive and anti-Semitic remarks, the latest company to distance itsel...