Blue Tomato, the omni-channel boardsports retailer, is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar shop in Scandinavia, according to sport-guide.com. The Austrian-based retailer, which is a subsidiary of the Zumiez group, already sells online in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Blue Tomato is also planning to open a store in Amsterdam in August, its second one in the Netherlands after Utrecht, which was inaugurated in November 2018. On a global basis, Zumiez reported better than expected results for the first quarter ended May 4. Sales increased by 3.2 percent to $212.9 million, with growth of 3.3 percent on a comparable store basis, thanks more full-price selling at the group's stores in the U.S. Zumiez ended up with a net profit of $800,000 for the quarter against a net loss of $2.6 million in the year-ago period.

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