Adidas Aims to Overtake Nike

Adidas (ADDYY) aims to boost its sales to 17 billion euros ($24 billion) by 2015 as part of a strategy to overtake Nike (NKE) as the world’s largest sporting goods company.

“Our aspirations are to outperform total market growth … to outgrow our maj…

Week in Preview: Here Come Retail Earnings

The first of the major retailers will report quarterly earnings this week. Analysts expect to see strong results from Macy’s and Penney, but flat earnings from Kohl’s. Agilent may be one of this week’s biggest earnings gainers….