Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 229
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Lacoste has launched a click-and-collect service, allowing French customers to...
Lacoste has launched a click-and-collect service, allowing French customers to browse through the internet to check the availability of an item and to pick it up at one of its stores
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Vitalnutritech is the new distributor in Spain and Andorra for...
Vitalnutritech is the new distributor in Spain and Andorra for Bollé and Cébé, the two sports eyewear brands of Bushnell, for sale in specialty bike shops. Based in Barcelona, the company imports and distributes products for cycling, triathlon, fitness and swimming and offers them also on its website.
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Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop,...
Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop, Camelbak, Julbo and other sports brands, will take over the distribution of the football collection of Reusch in Sweden. The company already distributes the German brand's winter sports and football collections in Norway, and took on the distribution of its ...
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Joma is moving into the Argentinian market through a licensing...
Joma is moving into the Argentinian market through a licensing agreement with KA Argentina, a company that was previously the licensee for the Kappa and Robe di Kappa brands. According to the local press, the Argentinian company will invest $15 million into a new factory that will manufacture sports shoes ...
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Body Glove has signed a contract with a new distributor...
Body Glove has signed a contract with a new distributor for Peru, Wave Pool SAC, which started up in October 2010 as the operator of a surf arena, called La Ola Movistar, which is said to have the largest wave machine in the world
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Intersport's global network of sporting goods retailers is about to...
Intersport's global network of sporting goods retailers is about to move into its 43rd market, Morocco. With plans to open at least 12 stores with average surfaces of 300 to 400 square meters, Intersport International Corporation has granted a sub-license for the Moroccan market to Intersport Spain. The Spanish Intersport ...
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GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine...
GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine years ago, has presented a new concept, SportXtreme, which addresses about 80 of its 1,000-odd retail members in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries that carry some sports brands in the stores. It is also targeting sporting goods retailers specializing ...
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+++ Two new franchised Intersport stores are being opened in...
+++ Two new franchised Intersport stores are being opened in Italy, one on the island of Ischia and one in Udine +++ Fire & Ice has opened a new store in Munich +++
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Rejig in Indian distribution deals
Following the example of several other Indian sporting goods manufacturers, Mayor World is the latest producer to have become active in distribution of international brands in India and neighboring countries. It has restructured its business in the last two years and obtained deals with Slazenger as well as Gola, Lonsdale ...
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Easton-Bell Sports has signed up Zyro as exclusive distributor for...
Easton-Bell Sports has signed up Zyro as exclusive distributor for the U.K. and Ireland of the company's Bell, Blackburn, Easton and Giro lines of cycling components and accessories, starting July. Another U.K. distributor, Madison, had been selling Giro, Bell and Blackburn for more than 25 years, while Extra UK had ...
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Race Company has taken on the distribution of Alpinstars in...
Race Company has taken on the distribution of Alpinstars in France
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Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved...
Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved a gross turnover of about €394 million for the fiscal year ended in February, down by just 3.4 percent compared with its record sales in the previous year. The company said that it still managed to lift its operating profit. ...
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In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods...
In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods retail chain under the helm of the Migros cooperative, managed to increase its sales by 2.9 percent to 257 million Swiss francs (€211.2m-$276.3m) before VAT. Given an average deflation of retail prices for the chain of 1.0 percent, the actual increase ...
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Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2,...
Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2, at the end of its latest financial year, or 5.2 percent more than a year earlier. Globally, its total door count under various banners went up by just 1 percent to 3,335 units. It had 42 franchised stores, half of ...
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Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in...
Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in the prestigious residential area of Tangerang, Jakarta, last April 6. The premises include two floors for offices and a showroom. It is the first store where the Spanish company has used a new interior design that it will use to present Kelme's image ...
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Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues...
Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues to develop internationally. According to sport-guide.com, it has opened its first store in Morocco, in Casablanca. It already has two stores in Spain, one in Brussels and one in the French territory of La Réunion. It has others in France. ...
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JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five...
JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five of the six Made in Sport stores operating in France and plans to convert them to the JD format, starting in the autumn, according to sport-guide.com. The Made in Sport chain had been created by the Printemps department store group, ...
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The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where...
The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where Amazon Germany's most important distribution center is located, have voted with an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike, claiming that the wages paid by the retailer are too low. The issue is that Amazon Germany is not bound to ...
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Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends...
Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends to open six new stores across Europe this year. The Austrian specialty retailer of board sports gear has not named the locations except for the two new stores to be opened in Germany in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The company already ...
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Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to...
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to Asics for the retail brand strategy for its Onitsuka Tiger brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agency has already created the brand's shop windows for spring 2013. The Retaildesign blog gave a “best” note to its booth ...
