Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 131

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    Footasylum, the British lifestyle footwear retailer, says it has increased...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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,...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-18T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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,...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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 &...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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,...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    An Under Armour store is set to open soon in...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    An Under Armour store is set to open soon in Milan in a former building of Luxottica on via Orefici, next to Levi's and Tommy Hilfiger

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    Woolrich has opened a directly operated store in the Austrian...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Woolrich has opened a directly operated store in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel

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    Bogner, the German luxury sports brand, has expanded into China,...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Bogner, the German luxury sports brand, has expanded into China, where it has opened its first franchise space. The store is located in the Thaiwoo ski resort, northwest of Beijing and a three-hour drive from China's capital city. The shop will be open seven days a week. Thaiwoo will play ...

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    Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...

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    El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the...

    2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

    El Corte Inglés has entered a wide-ranging cooperation with the Alibaba Group, covering cloud computing, trading, logistics and smart payments. The Spanish department store chain, which is a major player in the domestic sporting goods market, will have access to Alibaba's software solutions for large data analysis and customer relationship ...