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Infographics & DataInflation rates in the G20
This exclusive interactive chart shows inflation rates for June and July 2022 for all members of the G20. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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News briefsGerman retail association rejects new lockdowns in fall
HDE (German Retail Association) and ZIA (Central Real Estate Committee, the umbrella organization of the German real estate industry) have published a strategy paper in which they jointly formulate specific demands to policymakers to prevent a repetition of the past two fall/winter seasons. These include an exemption from lockdowns or ...
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News briefsYouGov: Sustainability in retail is important to 25% of Germans
The trend toward greater sustainability in times of climate change is increasingly coming into focus in the retail and consumer goods industries. For every fourth German (25%), sustainability in retail is one of the most important aspects. This is shown by data from the YouGov Profile Peek “Sustainable Retail,” which ...
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ArticleGerman consumer climate falls to new record low
According to GfK, German consumers were more uncertain than ever in June 2022. At minus 27.4 points, consumer sentiment has never been lower since the first German consumer climate survey in 1991. Above all, German consumers are more pessimistic about their own income than they have been for decades. According ...
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News briefsJD Sports opens mega store in Hamburg’s HafenCity district
The British retail chain JD Sports will open an 800-square-meter store in Hamburg’s HafenCity, operated by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, a global developer and operator of flagship destinations with a portfolio worth €54.5 billion. The new mega store’s extensive brand and assortment mix will combine brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The ...
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News briefsLids will open 20 stores in Germany
Source: Lids Lids store in the U.K. Lids, the U.S. sportswear retailer headquartered in Indianapolis, is expanding into Germany with the opening of 20 stores. The first three locations will open in Berlin in the coming weeks. Alexa Berlin is set to open on June 17, followed ...
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ArticleGrowth in German e-commerce continues to normalize
E-commerce in Germany cannot evade the effects of war, rising prices and insecure consumers and is returning to familiar growth paths after double-digit revenue increases in previous years, says the German e-commerce and mail order retail association (bevh) regarding the first half of Q2. Consumer goods e-commerce sales as a ...
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News briefsSchanner to distribute Bauer’s Prosharp in four European markets
After the Canadian hockey specialist Bauer Hockey acquired the Swedish company Prosharp AB, specializing in fully automatic grinding machines for skate blades, in August 2021, the company now announced that Schanner Eishockeyartikel GmbH + Co. KG will take over the distribution of Prosharp in Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia on ...
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News briefsNew operational manager for Therm-ic and Sidas at STC for German-speaking countries
Source: STC Distribution GmbH Markus Haid, new operational manager for Therm-ic and Sidas, DACH Since March 1, Katharina Spar has joined marketing manager Jan Otto as junior marketing manager at the Austrian company STC Distribution GmbH, which is responsible for sales of the Sidas and Therm-ic brands ...
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ArticleOngoing war in Ukraine weighs on German consumer sentiment
As the consumer barometer of the German Retail Association (HDE) shows, consumer sentiment among Germans is continuing to deteriorate in May. After plummeting massively following the start of the Russian war in Ukraine, the index is now declining again. This is the sixth month of consecutive declines in the HDE ...
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ArticleRe-commerce market leader momox increases revenue to €335 million in 2021
The Germany-based, European re-commerce market leader momox continues to be on a growth course and looks back on a successful business year 2021 with an increase in sales to € 335 million. The focus of the past fiscal year at momox AG – the transformation of momox GmbH to a ...
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ArticleeBay survey analyzes shopping behavior during Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
In its consumer behavior analysis for the German website eBay.de, the online company eBay Ads has evaluated search queries during the extract search words and trends among its users. According to the report, two trends are becoming obvious: Search words like “well-being” and “cozy” have seen a significant increase compared ...
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ArticleSport 2000 Germany reports best result in company history; outdoor, ski touring leading the pack
Sport 2000 GmbH continues to grow in Germany. The factored purchasing volume and external sales of the affiliated partner companies in Germany gave Sport 2000 the best result in the company’s history in 2021. As a result, Sport 2000 defends the position it already held in 2019 as Germany’s largest ...
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News briefsPuma is looking for 500 testers for the next phase of the Re:Suede project
Puma is looking for 500 people in Germany to join brand ambassadors such as Cara Delevingne and Raphaël Varane to test the Re:Suede sneaker and become part of the company’s experiment to find out if it is possible to produce a biodegradable version of the classic Suede, one of the ...
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ArticleGerman survey: Paralympics help reduce prejudice against people with physical disabilities
On March 4, the Paralympic Winter Games will kick off in Beijing, barely two weeks after the end of the Winter Olympics. According to a recent survey by YouGov in cooperation with Statista, 72 percent of people in Germany say that the Paralympics can help break down prejudice against people ...
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German retail supply bottlenecks worsen in February
According to a survey by the research institute Ifo, supply problems in German retail have worsened again in February. In February, 76.3 percent of overall retailers said they did not receive all the goods they ordered. A month earlier, the figure was 57.1 percent. Among retailers selling clothing, 52.6 percent ...
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News briefsGermans invest in home fitness
A representative study by the German Industry Association for Fitness and Health (DFIG) has found that home fitness continues to be a growth market in Germany. The Covid-19 pandemic has boosted the market, and this trend continues. The survey shows that: 50 percent of households in Germany purchased fitness ...
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ArticleDecathlon Germany reports best year in history
Decathlon Germany has reported the most successful financial year in the company’s 35-year history. Since the first German store opened in Dortmund in 1986, the sporting goods manufacturer and retailer has expanded to 84 stores, two logistics centers and four campus locations for central services with a total of 4,833 ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany tests CO2-friendly same-day delivery
The sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon is testing the expansion of sustainable services in Germany. In Munich, a pilot project has been set up in collaboration with Glocally, a logistics company founded in 2021 by three students at the Technical University of Munich. The company focuses on a sustainable ...
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News briefsSeventh Absolute Run store opened
Sport 2000 reports that the seventh Absolute Run store opened on Feb. 4 in Germany. The owner of the store, which has been existing as “Laufsport Andreas” since 2006 in the city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia (80,000 inhabitants), is Petra Benecke, who has now reopened her store as “Absolute ...
