Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 126
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Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium...
Alibaba is setting up an e-commerce trade hub in Belgium
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Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has...
Fusalp, the French sportswear brand inspired by alpine skiing, has opened its sixth Parisian store. It is located in 177 rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris' 1st district and not far from the Louvre museum. The store, designed by Dillon Garris, sells the women's, men's and children's collections of the brand, alongside ...
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Knud Hansen, chairman of the supervisory board at Intersport Deutschland, has closed his...
Knud Hansen, chairman of the supervisory board at Intersport Deutschland, has closed his Intersport store in Kiel. The decision was taken two or three months ago, as the frequency at the store was continuing to decline. Other stores in the center of Kiel have also closed in the course of this year. Intersport ...
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The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with...
The Bründl group, an Austrian retailing group that works with Intersport, will be going its own way on Sept. 1, 2019. Both companies are closely linked, and they have influenced the Austrian sports goods retail industry for the past five years together. The Bründl group currently manages 26 stores and 550 ...
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UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched...
UYN, the new Italian brand of functional underwear, has launched its web store, addressing customers in 47 countries, with others due to follow soon. The brand, which stands for Unleash Your Nature, was launched last year by Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works also for Armani and ...
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Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased...
Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased its revenue from e-mail marketing by 28 percent by harvesting its existing customer data. According to the company, a recent test showed that its cost per click had been cut by 75 percent. Looking for ways to direct customers to ...
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Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store...
Canada Goose suspended the planned opening of a flagship store in Beijing, originally planned for Dec. 15, justifying the move with delays in construction. No new date was given. Observers felt that the suspension was linked to the arrest on Dec. 1 of Meng Wanzhou, the financial director of Huawei, ...
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Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in...
Complementing our exclusive charts on the major sports retailers in the main European countries, the Norwegian sporting goods industry association, Norsk Sportsbransjeforening, is sharing with us some additional figures that show the estimated share of online sales in the market. They indicate that internet sales of sporting goods were worth ...
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Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the...
Decathlon will open two new stores in Munich in the course of next year. The French sporting goods retail chain already has one store in the Bavarian capital. Decathlon aimed to open no less than 13 new stores in Germany before the end of the year, building on its current strong portfolio ...
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Major sports retailers grow twice as fast as the world market
The 64 largest sporting goods specialty retail chains in the world raised their sales by 10 percent in local currencies as well as in dollars in 2017, according to an annual survey by Sporting Goods Intelligence, in spite of the strong growth of the generalist internet operators in this and ...
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Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor...
Nike has opened a flagship store on the second floor of the Dubai Mall. The 3,500-square-meter store in the capital of the United Arab Emirates has a small basketball court. It features a women's salon, NikePlus enhancements and customization facilities for shoes and apparel. The opening in Dubai follows last ...
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Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse,...
Karstadt Sports has opened a new store in Stuttgart's Königstrasse, with a surface of 3,650 square meters on three floors. It's smaller than a store that the chain had in the city until 2013, but it has more modern features, similar to those that it introduced at a redesigned store ...
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Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in...
Vivobarefoot has opened a second store in Switzerland, located in the downtown area of Zurich
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Decathlon has opened its ninth store in Mexico, covering 3,000...
Decathlon has opened its ninth store in Mexico, covering 3,000 square meters in the Magnocentro de Interlomas in Mexico City
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As expected, the retailers affiliated with Sport 2000 in France...
As expected, the retailers affiliated with Sport 2000 in France approved their acquisition of the 52 percent stake held by Activa Capital in their company at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on Nov. 22. Supported by bank loans, the retailers will finance the acquisition in different ways, changing the status of ...
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In December, with a soft launch scheduled for the 21st,...
In December, with a soft launch scheduled for the 21st, Rossignol is set to open its first American pop-up store at the Benton building in Aspen, Colorado. It will be a seasonal concept store with a decor recalling both Rossignol's 110-year history in winter sports and its rooster logo. The ...
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Zalando booked a net loss of €41.7 million in the...
Zalando booked a net loss of €41.7 million in the third quarter, up sharply from €11.1 million in the year-ago period, while sales growth slowed down to 11.7 percent from 28.7 percent. The adjusted operating profit (Ebit) sank to a negative level of €38.9 million on total turnover of €1.2 ...
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Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new...
Arc'teryx, a division of Amer Sports, has opened a new mono-brand store in Japan, its largest in-mall store in the country. The new 264-square-meter store, on two floors, is located in Fukuoka Momochi, the largest commercial facility in western Japan. The store, which was inaugurated on Nov. 21, sells Arc'teryx's ...
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Zalando announced that it would not organize the Bread &...
Zalando announced that it would not organize the Bread & Butter by Zalando fashion festival in 2019, leaving the door open for similar events in selected cities. The online retailer launched the consumer-oriented marketing event for the first time three years ago at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, after ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
