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Decathlon opens its first stores in Luxembourg and Kazakhstan
Decathlon will open its first store in Luxembourg, located in the Royal-Hamilius shopping mall, during the first quarter of this year. It will be a “Decathlon City” concept store, with a relatively small area of 630 square meters, spread over two floors.
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ArticleNew round of financing for France’s Snowleader
Snowleader, the leading French online retailer of winter sports and outdoor products, says it has collected €10 million in new financing from three institutional investors, including a fund owned by the BNP Paribas bank, to help pursue its international omni-channel strategy.
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Fusalp opens three pop-up stores
Fusalp will have three new pop-up stores set up in three countries over the next weeks. The temporary “corner” in the men’s department at Le Bon Marché, the department store on the Left Bank of Paris, will be open through March 1; the pop-up at the Reel Mall in Shanghai ...
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Sportspar continues its internationalization
Sportspar.de, the German online outlet shop for surplus sports products, continues its internationalization. Having starting with internet-based factory outlet shops for France (sport-outlet.fr), Italy (Scontosport.it) and Benelux (sport-korting.nl), it is now setting up similar shops for the markets of Spain and Poland. Spain should go online in the first quarter ...
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Progression Brands Group is Movement's new distributor
Movement, the Swiss freeski company, has teamed up with an American equity and investment firm, Progression Brands Group, as their new distributor to relaunch the brand in North America at the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, scheduled to begin on Jan. 29 in Denver. Movement is offering a diverse range of ...
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Zimstern launching apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders
Zimtstern, the German-based action sports brand, is launching a new apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders and has recently expanded its sales team. The former Swiss boardsports brand – once a part of Sports Pool, the Swiss company behind the Belowzero brand of ski and snowboard apparel – withdrew from ...
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Hunter Boots has chosen Socrep as its distributor in Italy
Hunter Boots has chosen Socrep as its distributor in Italy, starting in January. Founded in 1963 by Franco Prinoth, Socrep is based at Ortisei in the Italian Dolomites. It distributes the fashion brands Canada Goose, Fred Perry Lavenham and Orlebar Brown. It also distributes several mountain equipment brands, including Alpina, ...
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MD Viper taking charge of Rock Experience's Spanish distribution
MD Viper is taking charge of the distribution in Spain for Rock Experience, the Italian brand of sustainable outdoor apparel. Over the past few seasons, the company has begun to blend its technical fibers with a kind of merino wool (Aqa Wool 2) to improve the handling of moisture, odor ...
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Megasport to take charge of Lowa's Iberian distribution
This summer, Megasport will be taking charge of the distribution of Lowa throughout the Iberian Peninsula, following the bankruptcy last October of the German brand’s former long-time Spanish distributor, Gregal Sport. Megasport’s brand portfolio includes Haglöfs, Black Diamond, Rossignol, Spyder, Peak Performance, Briko, Protest, Dynastar, Lange and Giro.
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UA reassessing its wholesale and direct-to-consumer strategy in Russia
Under Armour is reassessing its wholesale and direct-to-consumer strategy in Russia, where it intends to be an active player, following the liquidation of Vostokinvest, with which it signed a non-exclusive distribution and franchising agreement in 2017. By the end of 2018, the company had opened 16 Under Armour stores in ...
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Andreas Heep leaves Adidas
Andreas Heep, senior director of sales for fashion products in Central Europe at Adidas, has left the company at his own request, after working there for 22 years. He is said to want to follow new projects in the future. His successor is Philip Clas, who has been with the ...
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Zalando completes construction of two buildings
In the summer of 2019, Zalando completed the construction of buildings X and O in Berlin. In April 2020, the e-commerce company will be starting the construction of another building (Z) in Friedrichshain, Berlin. The new building is expected to offer a flexible working environment, allowing employees to work individually ...
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EventsOUTDOOR RETAILER + SNOW SHOW
Date: 29-31 January 2020
Venue: Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Trend ReportsSupply chain of the future: Key principles in building an omnichannel distribution network
The consumer product and retail landscape continues to evolve as companies race to catch up with leading e-tailers. Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Walmart are expanding their online offerings and introducing new models, such as in-store fulfillment of online orders. Online players such as ...
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OpinionWhy 2020 could be the year Amazon becomes unstoppable
From infiltrating the pharma business to owning the internet, the Amazon juggernaut will be flexing its muscle with broad implications.
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AnalysisGlobal industry stocks leap by 46%, led by sports retailers
This exclusive chart shows the market capitalization development of the top 85 stock listed sporting goods companies (2019 to 2018). This is exclusive data and analysis for Professional Members.
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ArticleRussia’s Sportmaster buys the Danish chain by the same name
Sport Danmark, the company that owns the Danish loss-making Sportmaster chain of sporting goods stores, was sold on Dec. 23 by Nordic Capital to a company in Singapore, Sportmaster Operations Pte., created by the Russian Sportmaster Group in 2012 to oversee its development in China and to conduct acquisitions in ...
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ArticleSportmaster reportedly emerges in Uzbekistan
The leading Russian sporting goods retailer is to open three stores in Uzbekistan, starting in March, in three of its shopping malls in Uzebistan’s capital city of Tashkent, said a local real estate operator, The Tower MMG. The new stores will occupy 1,100 to 1,270 square meters each.
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ArticleAnother new chief executive for XXL
After issuing yet another profit warning for the fourth quarter of 2019, the board of directors of XXL ASA announced earlier this week that it has appointed Pål Wibe as the new chief executive of the company, which is the largest sporting goods retailer in the Nordic countries.
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ArticleDecathlon Germany will open a third logistics center and its largest store
After 16 new store openings in 2019, Decathlon Germany ended a very successful year with a total of 80 doors, compared with only 26 at the end of 2015. More or less until 2010, the French retailer had a tough time in the market, due in part to its disruptive ...
