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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 ...
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New Balance is reportedly planning to open its first flagship...
New Balance is reportedly planning to open its first flagship store in the U.K. at a prime location on Oxford Street in London, but not before 2017, although the lease has been signed apparently. The brand has many stores in the U.S., but in the U.K. it only has concessions ...
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Moncler has opened its first Paris boutique exclusively dedicated to...
Moncler has opened its first Paris boutique exclusively dedicated to the brand's men's collections, which include Moncler Gamme Bleu, Moncler main collection, and the Moncler Lunettes eyewear collection. The new 80-square-meter store is located in the trendy Marais district, at 11 rue des Archives. The concept store has been designed by ...
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Keen has opened an enlarged mono-brand store in Atrium Flora,...
Keen has opened an enlarged mono-brand store in Atrium Flora, a premium shopping center in Prague, through its successful Czech distributor, Outdoor Concept. Replacing a smaller outlet that was opened on the same site three years ago, it's the third Keen store in the city.
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After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg...
After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg last autumn, Stadium plans to open another one in the spring in the trendy Altona district of the city, measuring about 1,000 square meters ++ After opening six new stores in Germany and Switzerland in 2014, Blue Tomato plans to ...
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Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of...
Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) last week, claiming that more than 60 percent of the products sold on its Taobao marketplace were fake and that the company was not doing enough to fight counterfeiting. It was even ...
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Several media reports indicate that 361 Degrees, the Chinese sports...
Several media reports indicate that 361 Degrees, the Chinese sports brand, is preparing to move into European markets this year. The company already made hefty investments last year to start distribution in Brazil and the U.S., where it even opened a subsidiary run by seasoned executives. 361 Degrees, the fourth-largest ...
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Eleven Outdoor has become the exclusive importer for Houdini Sportswear...
Eleven Outdoor has become the exclusive importer for Houdini Sportswear in France, where the Swedish company didn't have a distributor before. Run by Jean-Marc Declroitre, who took it over at the beginning of this year, Eleven Outdoor was previously called JCP. It is still the distributor of Ferrino and Camelbak in ...
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Bauer Hockey, a subsidiary of Performance Sports Group, has announced...
Bauer Hockey, a subsidiary of Performance Sports Group, has announced it will open its first Bauer Hockey store, called “Own The Moment,” in the Boston suburb of Burlington, Massachusetts, in late summer. A second location will start up in the Minneapolis area in the autumn. The company currently plans an ...
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Speedo has extended its distribution agreement with Oberalp to cover...
Speedo has extended its distribution agreement with Oberalp to cover the markets of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, starting next July 1. The Italian company, which has sales subsidiaries in Poland and the Czeck Republic, started distributing Speedo in Italy in 2007 and extended the deal to Germany ...
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Xavier and David Berneda, the two Spanish brothers who own...
Xavier and David Berneda, the two Spanish brothers who own the Munich brand of sneakers, have set up a new distribution company, Bernher, to distribute Jaked, the Italian brand of high-tech swimwear, on the Spanish market. Eduardo Loriente, who ran Jaked's former distributor, Aquatic Global Sports, has joined Bernher.
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Snow Factory is taking on the distribution of Stöckli in...
Snow Factory is taking on the distribution of Stöckli in Spain and Andorra, starting on Jan. 1. At the same time, it is stopping the distribution of the various product lines of K2 Sports, except for Zoot, reportedly because the American group wanted to see an increase in the volumes ...
