Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 110

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    Black Diamond Equipment has opened its first European flagship store...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    Black Diamond Equipment has opened its first European flagship store in Innsbruck, Austria. The downtown store offers all of the brand's product categories as well as events and workshops. It also serves as a platform for end consumers to test or borrow selected equipment. The positioning in Innsbruck, where Black ...

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    In a counterpoint to XXL Sport, the Norwegian sports retailer...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    In a counterpoint to XXL Sport, the Norwegian sports retailer that is operating in Denmark only through a web store, Magasin du Nord, the Danish department store, is reaching out to Swedish customers with a new online store that opened earlier this month. Magasin once had a Swedish branch ...

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    The North Face will open the first mono-brand store in...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    The North Face will open the first mono-brand store in Russia in cooperation with a local retail partner, Inventive Retail Group, occupying 160 square meters in the Galereya Mall in St. Petersburg next March, the company told the local press. The group plans to open a total of 10 TNF ...

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    Fusalp is opening a new shop in Paris, not far...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    Fusalp is opening a new shop in Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower. The new shop follows another Parisian store on boulevard Beaumarchais, between Bastille and République, opened in mid-October. Fusalp posted revenues of €16.6 million for the financial year ended on May 31, representing a 49 percent increase, ...

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    JD Sports is working on the opening a flagship store...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    JD Sports is working on the opening a flagship store in Paris. Located on the central rue de Rivoli, occupying nearly 2,000 square meters on the premises of a former H&M store. The current work on the site is said to be schedule for completion by next May. France is ...

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    Snowleader, the French online retailer for ski and outdoor products,...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    Snowleader, the French online retailer for ski and outdoor products, is expanding into the Italian market, with a dedicated web store in the Italian language offering more than 18,000 products, including local brands like Montura. It's the eighth market for the Annecy-based company, after France, the U.K., Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, ...

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    On Running is said to be planning to open its...

    2019-12-24T00:00:00Z

    On Running is said to be planning to open its first store worldwide in New York sometime next year. Servicing more than 6,000 points of sale in over 50 countries, the fast-growing, nine-year-old Swiss brand of running shoes already has subsidiaries in the U.S., Japan, Australia and Brazil.

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    Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas Golf is launching Collection Ø, a new limited-edition apparel collection inspired by street culture. The unusual style is meant to break down the typical notion of what golf fashion should look like, combined with the performance features that wearers need on-course.

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    Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Adidas Terrex UK will be the official apparel sponsor of the Threshold Trail Series in 2020. The Threshold Trail Series is a series of four endurance trail events in the U.K., each offering a variety of terrains, gradients, elevations, landscapes and distances. The four events include: Heineken Race to the ...

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    Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Trial Sport, the third-largest Russian sporting goods retailer after Sportmaster and Decathlon and a major distributor of foreign sports brands, has opened a new store in the city of Omsk, one of the biggest cities in Siberia. This is the company's second store in the city. As of today, the ...

  • Short stops

    After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    After expanding its concept store on Munich's Maximilianstrasse, Moncler is prepared to pay rent of €6 million per year for a store on Paris' avenue des Champs-Elysées, according to fashionmagazine.it

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    Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United that will give the Chinese e-commerce giant exclusive rights to share club contents in China across the group's platforms

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    Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has just opened a new and sophisticated experimental store at CF Sherway Gardens, a mall near Toronto. Called “The Journey,” it has no products in its inventory, and it will treat customers to daily synthetic snowstorms. The store uses OLED TV displays, 4K laser applications, rock walls and ...

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    Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Sprinter, the Spanish sports retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has expanded its e-tail page into an e-commerce marketplace, adding some 500 brands and 50,000 products to the catalog. Sprinter will now be hosting the sale of hoverboards and electric skates, for instance. Existing categories, such as cycling, ...

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    Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Zalando has launched its Zalando Lounge concept in the Czech Republic, a market that the e-tailer entered in the summer of 2018. Zalando Lounge, which has more than 25 million members in 14 European countries already, offers discounts of up to 75 percent on a selection of shoes, clothing and ...

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    Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante,...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Lacoste has inaugurated its revamped store in Milan's via Dante, which has been redesigned in accordance with the brand's Le Club concept. The 350-square-meter store, on two floors, was inaugurated on Dec. 5. “Le Club” is the format that Lacoste launched internationally in 2017, to enable a customer's total immersion ...

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    Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon is entering the Serbian market with a new store in a park next to the Big Fashion shopping center in the Karaburma district of Belgrade. Meanwhile, the world's largest sporting goods retailer has opened two more stores in Germany, in Heilbronn and Bremen, making a total of 80 stores ...

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    Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at...

    2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Goldwin has opened a flagship store in San Francisco, at 444 Jackson Street. It is the second retail flagship store and the first of the Japanese technical outdoor apparel brand outside of Japan. San Francisco's Jackson Square area is considered the city's design center. The store was inaugurated on Nov. ...

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    Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs...

    2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

    Moncler will be opening a flagship store at 119, Champs Elysées, on the upper section of Paris' iconic avenue, according to reports in FashionNetwork.com. Moncler will take over a 1,500-square-meter space that was occupied by Nespresso from 2007 to October 2019. The date of the opening has not been unveiled. ...