Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 172

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    Trocathlon, a bi-annual event that allows French consumers to sell...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Trocathlon, a bi-annual event that allows French consumers to sell old sports products to other customers at Décathlon stores, has turned into a permanent market. The French sports retailer has set up an online platform at trocathlon.fr this month that will enable consumers to do the same all year around. ...

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    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong at the end of this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and ...

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    Décathlon has opened a new store concept at the train...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has opened a new store concept at the train station of Lille Flandres, near the retail giant's head office in northern France. Décathlon Mobility focuses on urban transport, selling mostly bicycles, scooters, luggage, footwear, accessories and a range of seasonal products. The store also provides a click and collect ...

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    Décathlon has reopened its first Spanish store, which it had...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has reopened its first Spanish store, which it had launched 23 years ago at Montigalá, near Badalona. The surface has been expanded slightly to 3,675 square meters. It features new spaces for fitness, cycling and mountain sports.

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    Décathlon has released the first results of its test phase...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has released the first results of its test phase with Packcity, an automated in-store locker that allows customers to collect the items they have previously bought on-line. Nine stores were equipped with the automated locker solution before Christmas, to test the solution during a particularly busy time of year. ...

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    Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando, tells a German newspaper...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Robert Gentz, an executive of Zalando, tells a German newspaper that he would like to see his company being able to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after the order

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    Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Lowa and Schöffel have opened their first joint store in Austria. It is located in Innsbruck and managed by Schöffel's Austrian subsidiary, which is based in the city. With this opening, the two brands have now a total of 23 common stores in Germany, Austria and Italy.

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    Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Terni...

    2015-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Terni

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    SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters in Mönchengladbach on March 26, but it will shut down its store in Essen early next year, pulling away from the Ruhr area. With its 5,500 square meters, the store in Essen was just too big. The company hopes that ...

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    Adidas Group boasts robust underlying performance

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group is eagerly turning the page on a year of ups and downs, when ample gains for the Adidas brand were marred by shrinking sales in its golf business and the weakness of the Russian ruble. A few weeks ago the group had already revealed headline figures for ...

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    Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid and Barcelona before the end of 2017, according to Modaes.es. The Spanish website reports that Under Armour's sales grew last year by 63 percent to €10 million in Spain, where the brand ...

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    Zalando moves into the black for the year

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zalando made an annual operating profit at group level for the first time last year, and not only in Germany where it had already become profitable before.According to preliminary figures, the big German-based e-tailer booked an adjusted operating margin (Ebit) of 3.7 percent of sales, before extraordinary items, versus a ...

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    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong later this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and other Asia-Pacific countries ...

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    Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open its first store in Germany this month, in the Glacis-Galerie in Neu-Ulm, according to a report filed by the Deichmann group, the big German shoe retailer that owns Dosenbach-Ochsner in Switzerland. Oddly, the opening in that shopping gallery has already ...

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    Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in...

    2015-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Nike proposes to set up a store in Miami, in a building due to be demolished, with two levels of retail topped by a rooftop basketball court

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    Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) last week, claiming that more than 60 percent of the products sold on its Taobao marketplace were fake and that the company was not doing enough to fight counterfeiting. It was even ...

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    Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of Gigasport stores in Austria to its present network of 15 sports stores in the country. It closed one in the past summer. After pulling out of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2012, Gigasport also closed its three stores in ...

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    After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg last autumn, Stadium plans to open another one in the spring in the trendy Altona district of the city, measuring about 1,000 square meters ++ After opening six new stores in Germany and Switzerland in 2014, Blue Tomato plans to ...

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    Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop the first Uefa Champions League Experience concept stores in the Middle East. The first opening is scheduled for May this year at the Yas Mall on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and there are confirmed plans for further expansion across the ...

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    Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on...

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on Jan. 23. Meanwhile, members of the Wilson family that controls Lululemon are planning to open two or three Kit & Ace stores in London as well later this year, according to Drapers magazine. Kit & Ace is a new chain ...