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Ski and Sport, a 13-year-old British wholesale distribution company that...
Ski and Sport, a 13-year-old British wholesale distribution company that works closely with Sports Direct, has a design and manufacturing license to re-introduce footwear and apparel under the Vision Street Wear brand throughout the European Union. The first products will become available next month. Vision Street Wear belongs to Collective ...
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Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing...
Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing a sporting goods corner at one of its stores at Fontaine in the Isère region, according to sport-guide.com. Named Go Sport Basics, the area features only private label products by Go Sport, the French chain of sporting goods stores which, ...
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Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of...
Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of more than 5,000 square meters in June in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic. It will be the country's largest sporting goods store. The record in terms of size had been held by a store of 3,700 m² ...
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Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic...
Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic Sea coast, has been appointed new managing director of LEX Laufexperten (“running experts”), the influential cooperative network of specialty running shops across Germany. The 59-year-old has been in the retailing business for about 28 years and will coordinate the actions ...
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Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in...
Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in Germany. The selling surface of 170 square meters is located in the pedestrian zone in the heart of Regensburg, Bavaria, and follows similar formats in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kempten, Münster, Stuttgart and Rosenheim. The new store displays the whole ...
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Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride...
Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride n' Roll in at LidenStasse, in Potsdam. The company plans to open more Rusty Collaboration Stores throughout Europe. The goal of the stores is for the brand and the retailer to work together on sales.
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Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in...
Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in Mannheim, whose selling surface of 9,600 square meters makes it one of the largest sports stores in Europe. The GPS specialty brand offers its range on a surface of some 20 square meters.
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Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia....
Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia. Effective immediately, the new distributor is Lifestyle Industries Group which also takes care of Keen down under. The company replaces Sitro Group Australia.
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Décathlon has reportedly given up on a project for its...
Décathlon has reportedly given up on a project for its first superstore in Andorra for several reasons, including a requirement that it could not have control over the operation under the local legislation
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Columbia and Sorel are launching online sales to consumers in...
Columbia and Sorel are launching online sales to consumers in Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain (more in The Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Salomon will open a store in Chamonix next December in...
Salomon will open a store in Chamonix next December in partnership with a major local retailer, Coquoz Sport
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Oxbow is opening new stores in two French cities,...
Oxbow is opening new stores in two French cities, Dijon and Colmar
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KPSport has started the distribution of Halti in Spain and...
KPSport has started the distribution of Halti in Spain and Andorra
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JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in...
JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in and around Paris and five to six shops in Marseille as the group focuses on its development in France this year, chairman Peter Cowgill said in an interview with the Financial Times. Cowgill explained that the JD format, focused on ...
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Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within...
Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within the next few months. First out is a 154-square-meter store at Frölunda Torg, Gothenburg. Locations for the other four stores have yet to be announced. Peak Performance is also expanding internationally. New stores are to be opened in Switzerland, Italy ...
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Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding...
Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding brand, which is owned by Billabong, is most recently opening shop in Paris, following on the heels of a new store in Plymouth, England, earlier this month and the March opening in Barcelona. The new Paris shop, on the Rue ...
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The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St....
The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St. Andrews in Scotland, has reopened after being closed for remodeling over the winter. The shop has a new “old” look, featuring furniture that Tom Morris himself owned and the same design for the shop's sign as was used when he ...
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Quiksilver has opened a new flagship store in the Orchard...
Quiksilver has opened a new flagship store in the Orchard Central Mall in Singapore, its fourth retail location in the country in partnership with RSH (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
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Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged...
Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged stores in France this year, all in the Paris region. The first one is set to open shortly on 1,500 m² in the area of Herblay-Franconville, across from a Décathlon superstore. Another one, measuring 2,000 m², should take the place ...
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Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport...
Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport departments ranging from 50 to 300 square meters in most Swedish stores. Claes Forsberg, former chief executive of Svenskt Sportforum, is responsible for this launch. At first the focus will be on athletic shoes and running clothes. A former athlete, ...