Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 228
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XXL Sport og Villmark, the large Norwegian sporting goods retailer,...
XXL Sport og Villmark, the large Norwegian sporting goods retailer, continues to focus investments on the Swedish market. This spring, the tenth Swedish XXL store opened in the city of Jönköping, but the expansion will not stop there. By the autumn of 2013, three more stores are set to open ...
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Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium,...
Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium, told reporters earlier this month that the French retailer intends to double its number of Belgian stores to 30 in the next five years. As reported by Sport Partner, there are currently 15 Décathlon stores in Belgium but two more ...
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Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores...
Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores to Décathlon Simply, according to Sport-Guide.com. The parent company, Oxylane, has sharply reduced the number of Koodza stores in France in the last two years.
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Asics is launching its first European online store in the...
Asics is launching its first European online store in the U.K. in September 2013. It already launched its virtual store in the U.S. at the end of April, followed by one in Japan. The U.K. was chosen for the European launch because of its high internet penetration in retailing and ...
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Prince is opening a store in Wimbledon, London, in connection...
Prince is opening a store in Wimbledon, London, in connection with the annual tennis tournament in this historic site. A private VIP and media event will mark the opening this coming weekend in the presence of Nick Bollettieri and some top tennis players sponsored by Prince. The store will carry ...
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New Era is opening its second corporate store in Germany...
New Era is opening its second corporate store in Germany and the fifth in Europe in Frankfurt on Aug. 1. Located in MyZeil, a prestigious shopping mall in downtown Frankfurt, it will have a sales surface of 250 square meters and will feature a completely new concept, setting a model ...
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Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship...
Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship store in Biarritz on the Basque coast of France, almost simultaneously with the inauguration of its 7th European store not far away at Saint-Jean-de-Luz. According to Fashionmag.fr, the brand is planning to open shop in the French ski resort of ...
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GPG, the French agency of Patrick Genestier, has become the...
GPG, the French agency of Patrick Genestier, has become the general agent of Diadora in France for all its product categories excluding football, where the Italian brand will continue to work directly with key accounts such as Intersport. For other products, such as its active lifestyle range, Diadora had been ...
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Zopfi Sustainable Business Development, the new Dutch company recently founded...
Zopfi Sustainable Business Development, the new Dutch company recently founded by John and Rob Zopfi, is going to introduce Houdini in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. As reported, John Zopfi build up Patagonia's sales in northern Europe and then acted as sales director of ...
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Reydon Sports, a big British wholesaler, has agreed to distribute...
Reydon Sports, a big British wholesaler, has agreed to distribute Li-Ning's products in the U.K. and Ireland. The Chinese brand is now featured in Reydon's latest product catalog, which has just come out with a new look. Reydon guarantees shipment of all the products in the catalog within 48 hours ...
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SportScheck, Germany's leading specialty sporting goods chain, is joining an...
SportScheck, Germany's leading specialty sporting goods chain, is joining an charity initiative called Tag des Aufrundens (“Day of rounding Up”). The retailer and other participants in the campaign encourage their customers to round up the total of their purchases at the cashier by up to ten cents of a euro. ...
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Quiksilver has inaugurated its first store in Myanmar, the former...
Quiksilver has inaugurated its first store in Myanmar, the former Burma, which has recently opened up to the world after many years of isolation. The store was opened in partnership with Sein Wut Hmon Company Limited (SWH Asia) and is located in Kamayut Township, in the capital city of Rangoon, ...
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Peter Jørgensen, who runs a Danish distribution company, Sports Connection,...
Peter Jørgensen, who runs a Danish distribution company, Sports Connection, has been elected president of the Danish shoe industry association, which has changed its name from Danmarks Skoleverandør Forening to Skobranchen.dk. The association represents 40 suppliers, including Ecco. Sports Connection is currently the distributor of Skechers and other brands in ...
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A Danish distributor with an original name, The Good Karma...
A Danish distributor with an original name, The Good Karma Company, has expanded to Sweden, according to Sportfack. As a result, six new sports brands already sold in Denmark are now available on the Swedish market: Skora, Ashmei, Ultraspire, Klymit, Montbell and OMM. They are all known for their lightweight ...
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Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with...
Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with a strong position in the Basque region, has decided to join Sports Trade Marketing International (STMI) as a member of Twinner International. STMI is the European purchasing group created last year by the French-based Groupe Go Sport and Hervis Sport, ...
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Décathlon is opening its 19th German store in Neustadt on...
Décathlon is opening its 19th German store in Neustadt on a surface of 2,450 square meters. Fighting against the competition from established traditional German retailers, Décathlon opened four new stores in Germany last year including a downtown location in Essen's Rathausgalerie. Another downtown store is reportedly planned for Mannheim's former ...
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Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga...
Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga and sports apparel brand, is preparing to move into the Dutch market. The specialized Dutch newspaper was told by Jessica Edwards, international community manager at Lululemon, that the company intended to open its first store in Amsterdam before the end ...
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In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second...
In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second factory outlet store in Insjøn, Sweden. It will have three different areas for Lundhags own products, external brands and an outlet section. The company's first store in Järpen, Sweden has turned into something of a destination store and the same ...
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At the end of May, Stormberg will open its second...
At the end of May, Stormberg will open its second store in Sweden, this time in the town of Norrköping. The new store comes only half a year after the Norwegian sportswear brand opened its first Swedish store in Malmö. In addition, Stormberg is strongly represented in all the Swedish ...
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Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year,...
Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year, saw its sales drop by 6 percent to 267.5 million Danish kroner (€35.9m-$46.3m) for the three months until the end of March. This is the third quarter in the fiscal year of IC Companys, the Danish company that owns the ...
