Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 248
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The Flatiron District of New York City is the home...
The Flatiron District of New York City is the home to the first New Balance Experience Store in North America. The store has a Mondo running track as well as a Demonstration Area where customers can watch a New Balance employee assemble shoes. It takes up 4,000 square feet and ...
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Crocs' second store in France has opened its door in...
Crocs' second store in France has opened its door in the seaside resort of Antibes
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Skechers has opened a shop-in-shop in the London department store...
Skechers has opened a shop-in-shop in the London department store of Harrods, situated in the fitness department, on the store's fifth floor
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Holey Soles and Double Diamond Distribution of Canada, plus a...
Holey Soles and Double Diamond Distribution of Canada, plus a Massachusetts retailer selling Waldies clogs are going to be forbidden from selling foam shoes like those of Crocs in the U.S. if President Obama endorses a decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Crocs has thus won a ...
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DQM, described as the leading skate shop in New York,...
DQM, described as the leading skate shop in New York, will open a co-branded store with Vans in the heart of the city's SoHo district in September. Called the Vans DQM General store, it will showcase DQM's own line of apparel and Vans footwear, including some exclusive co-branded styles. It ...
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Intersport España indicates that its members will open eight...
Intersport España indicates that its members will open eight new stores during the second half of 2011
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Forum Sport will be able to open a new 2,400-m²...
Forum Sport will be able to open a new 2,400-m² store in Gijón in September, the 39th door within the Spanish chain, as a local court overruled the opposition of municipal authorities against the move
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Protest, the Dutch board sports brand, has opened its first...
Protest, the Dutch board sports brand, has opened its first brand store in China, in The Place, an upmarket shopping mall in Beijing
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Vibram takes over FiveFingers’ distribution in Europe
Vibram has amicably parted ways with Aicad, the Italian producer of Lizard sandals, by not renewing a contract that had given it the right to distribute its own line of FiveFingers shoes in Europe for the past five years. Aicad will have until the end of this year to clear ...
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Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the...
Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the Russian market and with Sport on Top for the Danish market. Both contracts were signed at the beginning of this year. In July this year, Freddy signed a new distribution contract with Snow Force BVBA for the Benelux countries. Zalando, ...
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Alpargatas is going to take over the distribution of Mizuno...
Alpargatas is going to take over the distribution of Mizuno in Argentina, from next February, and it has already started to take orders for the brand in the country. Alpargatas has already been quite successful with the Japanese brand in Brazil, particularly in the running segment. The Brazilian group, which ...
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Under Armour is considering opening a full-price shop in a...
Under Armour is considering opening a full-price shop in a European country sometime over the next 12 months as the range of its products is widening, comprising also some models that have been specifically designed for the market. Under Armour's Iberian distributor, Alnisa Sport Group, has just opened the first ...
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J.Lindeberg opened several new mono-brand stores in the last couple...
J.Lindeberg opened several new mono-brand stores in the last couple of months. Three new stores have been opened in Hong Kong, a new store has been opened in Malmö, two new stores in Stockholm and one new store in Miami. Further expansion of mono-brand stores is planned for the second ...
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Three Telstar megastores are to open in Almere, Groningen and...
Three Telstar megastores are to open in Almere, Groningen and Amersfoort, in the Netherlands, adding up to seven extra-large sports and lifestyle stores for the banner
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Adidas is opening its fifth mono-brand store in Sri Lanka...
Adidas is opening its fifth mono-brand store in Sri Lanka and the first performance store in the country through its local distributor, Hameedia
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Benitosports, one of the major retail members of Spain's Base...
Benitosports, one of the major retail members of Spain's Base buying group, has launched its own e-commerce site
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Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe...
Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe collections in Portugal and Slovakia. Before, Crocs had been selling its product line in these countries by means of a distributor. At the moment, Crocs manages the distribution of its products directly in altogether 15 countries. In the future, the ...
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Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France...
Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France of Sunn, a French brand of mountain and all-terrain bicycles with revenues of €2.2 million in 2009
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Sportshopsdirect, a specialist online retailer in the Netherlands, wants to...
Sportshopsdirect, a specialist online retailer in the Netherlands, wants to increase the number of its websites from two to 11 by 2014. Established in 2002, the company has rapidly become a weighty online retailer in the tennis and football categories, with its specialist websites tennisdirect.nl and voetbaldirect.nl. Sportshopsdirect's managers told ...
