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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Adidas to sell second batch of Yeezy trainers after breakup with Kanye West

A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West
Adidas cut ties with Kanye West, who changed his name to Ye in 2021, last October after he made antisemitic comments on social media. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Adidas is to sell a second batch of Yeezy footwear, including some of its most popular lines, after sales from the first reduced expected annual losses for the company by €250m.

The German sportswear label said in May it would not destroy the unsold merchandise from its now-defunct Yeezy partnership with Kanye West, who changed his name to Ye in 2021, and would instead try to sell the stock and donate some of the proceeds to those harmed by the rapper’s comments.

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