Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 164
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Lacoste, which already has a store in Bangalore's airport, plans...
Lacoste, which already has a store in Bangalore's airport, plans to open eight new retail stores in India, four of which will be located in the airports of Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Kochi
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Alibaba is reportedly planning to open offices in Germany, France...
Alibaba is reportedly planning to open offices in Germany, France and Italy to persuade more European vendors to use Tmall and other internet platforms within the group for the sale of their products in China
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Intersport Austria has launched a new promotion to get young...
Intersport Austria has launched a new promotion to get young customers to register for a loyalty card. Depending on their age, customers who are 16 to 18 years old can get a discount of 16, 17 or 18 percent on the purchase of their favorite product in affiliated stores once ...
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Moncler has opened its first store in Boston
Moncler has opened its first store in Boston
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Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing...
Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing taken over by members of the Lacoste family, has opened a 110-square-meter boutique on rue des Blanc-Manteaux, in the heart of the Marais district of Paris. Three franchised stores are due to open in the French ski resorts of Megève, ...
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Ochsner Sport, the Swiss-based subsidiary of Deichmann specializing in sports...
Ochsner Sport, the Swiss-based subsidiary of Deichmann specializing in sports retailing, will take over Sport Sperk, a German chain of 13 sporting goods stores based in Bavaria, with effect from Jan. 1, provided it gets regulatory approval. The stores include a factory outlet and a bike shop, and six of ...
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New Era has opened its U.K. flagship location in London,...
New Era has opened its U.K. flagship location in London, at 40 Carnaby Street. The 1,540-square-foot store, which was inaugurated on Sept. 30, is split across two floors. The store features an embroidery machine where shoppers can customize their hats in only about 20 minutes. In addition, another featured service ...
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The North Face was planning to inaugurate its first store...
The North Face was planning to inaugurate its first store in Portugal on Oct. 17 in the presence of João (José Silva Abranches) Garcia, the first Portuguese mountaineer to have reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1999. A year later, after reaching the top of Annapurna, ...
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Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by...
Zalando warns investors that its sales will be up by between 33 and 35 percent in 2015, up from a previously forecast range of 28-31 percent, but they will generate an operating margin of 3 to 4 percent, less than the anticipated margin of 4-5 percent. The updated forecast for ...
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Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis...
Go Sport has collected nearly €40,000 to support the tennis section of the French Handisport Federation (FFH), which promotes tennis for disabled people in France. The sporting goods retailer had recently proposed its clients donate €1 in cash for this cause. In 2014, when the initiative was first launched, Go ...
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Keller Sports wins prizes, adds top winter sports brands
Keller Sports, the first online retailer in Europe to have chosen a premium positioning in the market, won a couple of important prizes a few weeks ago in a prestigious contest for the “Shop Usability Award,” organized by a German retail consultancy, Shoplupe. Competing against 533 other e-commerce websites in ...
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Adidas leads research project on recyclable football products
The Adidas Group is leading a three-year research project, Sport Infinity, to make sporting goods that can be repeatedly recycled, without any chemical adhesives or waste. Using an inexaustible super-material, they could be entirely broken down and remolded into new performance products. The project focuses on plastic-based football products, starting with ...
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Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to...
Adidas France is to transfer its French head office to Strasbourg toward the end of 2017, in the new business area of Wacken. It will thus leave the village of Landersheim near Saverne, where it was established in 1973. Despite repeated renovations, the office complex was apparently no longer suitable. ...
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Sport Partner reports that all Telstar Megastores are to remain...
Sport Partner reports that all Telstar Megastores are to remain open, on the back of an agreement between unnamed investors and the Dutch sports retailer's receiver. The stores will continue trading under the Telstar name but the group will work closely together with Daka Sport, another Dutch sports retailer, which has actively ...
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Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in...
Sport-guide.com reports that Anima Athletica, a French retailer specializing in fitness apparel and footwear for women, is preparing to open its fourth store in October, on about 60 square meters in Polygone Riviera, a new shopping center in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice
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Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and...
Arc'teryx has opened its fifth U.S. store in Denver and plans to add two others in New York City and Boston by the end of this year. The fast-growing brand, which is said to have a potential for total sales of €500 million, already opened new stores in London and ...
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Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store...
Nike has opened a new U.S. West Coast flagship store in Los Angeles, Nike The Grove, named after an iconic outdoor shopping mall and covering 31,000 square feet on three floors
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Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online...
Go Sport has launched Go Sport Occasion, a new online platform for second-hand sporting goods of all sorts, including equipment. The platform is open to both private customers and professionals and can be accessed via the retailer's e-commerce site at www.go-sport.fr under “Services.” Ads are grouped by region and city ...
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Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with...
Textilwirtschaft reports that Stadium, the Swedish sporting goods retailer with stores in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and more recently in Germany, has started trading through a German-language online store, www.stadium.de. Stadium opened its first German store on about 1,650 square meters in Hamburg last year and added a second store in ...
