Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 208
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Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in...
Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in a building due to be demolished, with two levels of retail topped by a rooftop basketball court
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Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's...
Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's store on King's Road, in the Chelsea district of London, by May. A Nike spokesman would not comment on the report. The Swoosh already opened two women's stand-alone stores late last year, one in Newport Beach, California, and the other ...
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Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group,...
Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group, plans to open its first women-only store on Feb. 28. Called CLa Boutique and located at 110, rue de Rennes in Paris, it will the biggest store in France for women's sneakers and sports shoes, offering 300 different models, says ...
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Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the...
Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the acquisition of 18 of the 136 French Bata stores that have been auctioned by a French court following the insolvency of Bata France. The court accepted the offer made by François Le Ménahèze, who acted as chief executive of Bata ...
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Asics started sales of its products in India from the...
Asics started sales of its products in India from the beginning of this year, through a subsidiary it opened in April 2012 to provide marketing support to its distributor, the Reliance Retail, which sold Asics through its Footprint stores and at wholesale. Rajat Khurana, director of Asics India, told Indian ...
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Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running...
Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running gear, has revamped its German website entirely. A new feature is the company's corporate online store. In an effort to appease its retail customers, Erima said that the existing team sports retailers remain the most important distribution channel, but the ...
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Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to...
Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to open a pop-up store in the French ski resort town of Val d'Isère. The company, founded only four years ago, managed to find a small retail space in a popular location, right on the town square. It will open for ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in the Netherlands and that distribution of the Regatta and Dare2B brands is to be handled from the start of May by Corvus Sports. This is a new agency formed by Erik Kray, who has been the Dutch country manager for ...
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Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor...
Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor for the Polish market, Portal Gorski, which also distributes the British brands Rab and Kozi Kidz, the marketer of specialty outdoor and snow apparel for children. Wigwam has been distributed in Europe, since last year, by Hej International, a U.K.-based ...
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Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French...
Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French resort of Chamonix on Feb. 27. It will be deployed in the course of this year at shop-in-shops all over Europe, notably at Alpisport in Namur, Belgium; at El Corte Inglés in Barcelona; at Alpi Trail in Puidoux, Switzerland; and ...
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JD Sports Fashion plans to open a Size? store in...
JD Sports Fashion plans to open a Size? store in Cologne, Germany a few weeks from now
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Falke has opened its first concept store in China, located...
Falke has opened its first concept store in China, located in the Hangzhou Tower department store of Hangzhou
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Thule Group has inaugurated a big new distribution center in...
Thule Group has inaugurated a big new distribution center in Poland to service customers in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Russia and Scandinavia. The new center, which has involved investments of 65 million Swedish kronor (€6.9m-$7.8m) is located at Huta, in western Poland, where the group has operated ...
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Tittallon, a highly technical and colorful Chinese brand of ski...
Tittallon, a highly technical and colorful Chinese brand of ski and outdoor clothing, has started to be sold in about 40 stores in Germany and other parts of Europe, according to the European distributor of the brand, Conel. It has recruited agents in Germany and distributors for the Czech Republic ...
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Olympic Sportswear, Benelux distributor for Alpina eyewear and helmets, has...
Olympic Sportswear, Benelux distributor for Alpina eyewear and helmets, has named Sollie Brands as its Dutch agent
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Go Sport has launched an internet platform in France to...
Go Sport has launched an internet platform in France to allow consumers to rent or rent out all kinds of sporting goods items, including skis, bicycles, tennis racquets, tents and canoes. Other companies that rent out these kinds of products can post their ads on the website. The French retailer, ...
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Twinner Iberia continues to federate other smaller Spanish buying groups...
Twinner Iberia continues to federate other smaller Spanish buying groups around it in order to raise their collective buying power. It has signed a collaboration agreement with Gys Sport in the financial, administrative and commercial areas, starting with orders placed with some strategic vendors by their retail members for the ...
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Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of...
Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of Gigasport stores in Austria to its present network of 15 sports stores in the country. It closed one in the past summer. After pulling out of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2012, Gigasport also closed its three stores in ...
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Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on...
Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on Jan. 23. Meanwhile, members of the Wilson family that controls Lululemon are planning to open two or three Kit & Ace stores in London as well later this year, according to Drapers magazine. Kit & Ace is a new chain ...
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Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop...
Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop the first Uefa Champions League Experience concept stores in the Middle East. The first opening is scheduled for May this year at the Yas Mall on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and there are confirmed plans for further expansion across the ...
