Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 144
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Hardly a week goes by without a Decathlon store opening,...
Hardly a week goes by without a Decathlon store opening, and the latest batch includes its expansion in three relatively small markets. The French retailer opened a store in Maribor earlier this month, its second in Slovenia after Ljubljana last year. Another opening occurred in Romania, where Decathlon has been ...
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Textilwirtschaft reports that Decathlon intends to open a shop in...
Textilwirtschaft reports that Decathlon intends to open a shop in the basement of a C&A store in Düsseldorf before the end of the year. The store would cover about 2,000 square meters in the fashion apparel retailer's flagship store in the city. A spokesman told the newspaper that the partnership ...
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Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier...
Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier this month. Located in the famous Berlin shopping avenue, the Ku'damm, the shop occupies 70 square meters of retail space. There are now 30 Havaianas stores throughout Europe, as well as 40 concessions and 80 franchise shops.
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K-Way is set to open a flagship store on Paris'...
K-Way is set to open a flagship store on Paris' rue du Temple on Aug. 22
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Foot Locker is set to take the place of a...
Foot Locker is set to take the place of a former Benetton store at the prestigious address of 66 avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris during the third quarter, according to FashionNetwork.com
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Foot Locker is aiming for A1 locations in the major...
Foot Locker is aiming for A1 locations in the major European cities. It plans to open a new store measuring 550 square meters at Alexanderplatz, in the center of Berlin, next spring. According to sport-guide.com, the American banner is also negotiating a lease for a store of 1,500 sqm. on ...
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Carhartt has announced plans to open a 2,500-square-foot store on...
Carhartt has announced plans to open a 2,500-square-foot store on London's King's Boulevard in September, not far from the Nike Central store that opened last August
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After 20 years of glorious existence, Colette, the Paris boutique...
After 20 years of glorious existence, Colette, the Paris boutique that has been offering original products from many different sports and fashion brands, is going to close its doors on Dec. 20
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, told Focus...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive of the Adidas Group, told Focus magazine that the Reebok brand has to return to profitability within four years. Shortly after Rorsted took over the helm in October last year, the company launched a reorganization at Reebok, Muscle Up, which entailed about 150 job cuts, the ...
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Decathlon is expanding its store at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin...
Decathlon is expanding its store at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin by increasing the sales surface from 6,000 to 8,500 sqm. New sports categories like rugby, fun wheels, tennis for kids and yoga for men, have been added to the existing product offer. The number of employees has been increased by ...
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Banking on the athleisure trend, Supergroup has announced plans to...
Banking on the athleisure trend, Supergroup has announced plans to launch directly-owned or franchised stand-alone stores and shop-in-shops for its 18-month-old Superdry Sport range, in a move that is aimed at accelerating what it calls its “global lifestyle” strategy. The British sportswear brand is already sold in 60 countries. After ...
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Intersport Austria has updated the appearance as well as the...
Intersport Austria has updated the appearance as well as the functions of its online store as part of the relaunch of intersport.at. The Austrian buying group says it has introduced new tools to reinforce the integration between its online and stationary business, comprising 272 stores at the end of June. ...
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Oberalp, which recently got the distribution of Under Armour in...
Oberalp, which recently got the distribution of Under Armour in Italy, has opened its first brand store in the peninsula. It's located in the Orio shopping mall near Bergamo's airport, close to Foot Locker and many other sports stores. Under Armour has also taken advantage of the settlement of a ...
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Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper, reports that Intersport Austria has...
Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper, reports that Intersport Austria has taken over large selling surfaces from Sports Direct International (SDI) in the country. The report says that the British retailer intends to close down all of its unprofitable stores in Austria, and to keep just 20 of them. When SDI ...
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Poc Sweden will close in the autumn its first and...
Poc Sweden will close in the autumn its first and only single-brand store, which it had opened in the French ski resort of Chamonix in 2006
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Keller Sports, the German multi-channel retailer based in Munich, won...
Keller Sports, the German multi-channel retailer based in Munich, won the German Brand Award 2017 at the end of June. Other bands that were given with the award were Uvex, Lowa and Led Lenser. Among the sporting goods retailers that participated, Keller Sports was the only company that won an ...
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Champion Europe is reportedly set to open the first Champion...
Champion Europe is reportedly set to open the first Champion USA store in the Soho district of London
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Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K....
Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K. It will be an outlet store located in Wembley Park's London Designer Outlet center. Converse already has a corner in Nike's outlet in the same center. Vans and Dr. Martens are also coming to the center with their own outlet ...
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Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its...
Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its small-surface Decathlon City stores in a landmark building at 16 Calle Fuencarral, the famous shopping street in the center of Madrid. Decathlon already operates 12 Decathlon City stores in the Spanish capital and 15 regular, large Decathlon stores in the ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) has slightly reduced its interest in...
Sports Direct International (SDI) has slightly reduced its interest in Finish Line, the U.S. sports retailer. It previously amassed contracts amounting to an interest of 19.9 percent in Finish Line through 19 purchases, from May 6 to June 19, but the seven transactions thereafter were all sales and the latest ...
