Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 174
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JD Sports Fashion is introducing its Size? concept in Germany...
JD Sports Fashion is introducing its Size? concept in Germany
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Décathlon is set to open its first downtown store in...
Décathlon is set to open its first downtown store in Berlin next spring, covering 6,000 square meters in the Rathaus-Passagen on the central Alexanderplatz. It will be its fourth downtown store in Germany, where it has run into many problems with urban planning authorities.
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Odlo has opened a shop-in-shop at the NK department store...
Odlo has opened a shop-in-shop at the NK department store in Stockholm. The move is a part of the company's strategy to establish itself on the Swedish market. Odlo also sells its products to about 20 Stadium stores throughout Sweden as well as a number of specialist retailers. The brand ...
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Sports Direct is entering the Swiss market, opening a store...
Sports Direct is entering the Swiss market, opening a store in Bern this month. Located at 27 Zeughausgasse, it will spread over three floors. Swiss observers have expressed strong concern about the move, noting that Sports Direct is taking the place of the former flagship store of Universal Sport, ...
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Falke opens its first Dutch mono-brand store in Maastricht...
Falke opens its first Dutch mono-brand store in Maastricht
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Skechers has opened its 1,000th store in Mexico City...
Skechers has opened its 1,000th store in Mexico City
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Alibaba Group's share price reached new highs, trading above $115...
Alibaba Group's share price reached new highs, trading above $115 a share and reaching a market capitalization above $280 billion, after reporting strong results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 and announcing that it generated record sales of $9.3 billion through its marketplaces on Nov. 11 in connection with ...
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El Corte Inglés, the Spanish department store chain, is offering...
El Corte Inglés, the Spanish department store chain, is offering interest-free credit since Nov. 7 for Christmas shoppers
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Chogori India Retail, which took on the distribution of Columbia...
Chogori India Retail, which took on the distribution of Columbia Sportswear in India in the middle of last year, is reportedly planning to open 25 stores or shop-in-shops by next April and up to 120 over the next three years following results that exceeded expectations at the first five stores
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SportScheck has invested a double-digit million figure to renovate and...
SportScheck has invested a double-digit million figure to renovate and expand its 18-year-old store in downtown Cologne, which now measures 5,600 square meters. The interior layout has been changed completely and a new glass window allows a view of the city's famous Cathedral from every floor. The chain's next store ...
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Asics has introduced its new retail concept with the first...
Asics has introduced its new retail concept with the first “True Sport Performance Store” opening on Oct. 31 in the center of Hamburg, close to Mönckebergstrasse, the city's prestigious shopping street. The new store has a selling surface of nearly 1,000 square meters and intends to offer a state-of-the-art shopping ...
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Asics plans to open flagship stores in Madrid and Lisbon,...
Asics plans to open flagship stores in Madrid and Lisbon, similar to the one that it inaugurated in Barcelona in 2012. The brand already has 12 stores in Spain and three in Portugal including nine factory outlets in Spain and two in Portugal.
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Intersport Sverige's third attempt to become a serious bicycle retailer...
Intersport Sverige's third attempt to become a serious bicycle retailer seems to have succeeded. Over the next year, 15 new stores in Sweden will begin selling bikes. The two requirements for stores to be included in the bicycle initiative are that there is room for the products and the appropriate ...
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Hervis Sports, the large price-driven retail chain from Austria, opened...
Hervis Sports, the large price-driven retail chain from Austria, opened its second store in Germany on Oct. 27. Two years after the first one in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the foot of the Alps, the choice fell this time on Nuremberg. The outlet has a selling surface of 1,030 square meters and ...
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Blue Tomato, the large Austrian chain and mail-order retailer of...
Blue Tomato, the large Austrian chain and mail-order retailer of action sports products, has arrived in Salzburg. The company owned by Zumiez, the U.S. retailer, had 17 doors in Germany and Austria. The new one, which opened on Oct. 30, is located in the old heart of the Austrian city and ...
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SportScheck has the best online sports store for tablet computers...
SportScheck has the best online sports store for tablet computers in Europe, according to a German agency, Quisma, which has checked out 15 web shops for sporting goods for their features. It is followed by the online stores of JD Sports, Karstadt Sports and Intersport Deutschland. All of them are ...
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Working through Hermes NexTec, a subsidiary of the Otto Group,...
Working through Hermes NexTec, a subsidiary of the Otto Group, Adidas has launched a webshop in 15 European countries at adidasspecialtysports.com, offering products specifically developed for specific sports such as badminton, cricket, cross-country skiing, cycling, handball, rugby, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling. The site contains links to Adidas' national websites for ...
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Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland,...
Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland, has warned that it may have to dismiss about 140 of its 250 employees to get out of its financial problems. To this end, the chain's management has started consultations with the personnel and indicated that some stores may be ...
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Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport....
Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport. The first one was opened in Terminal 1 in March. The new one is in Terminal 2 and measures 75 square meters. It offers a special line designed for the Pilgrimage to Santiago on an exclusive basis.
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SportScheck has opened its second store in Berlin. With a...
SportScheck has opened its second store in Berlin. With a retail area of 4,700 square meters, it is located in the Leipziger Platz 12 shopping mall, which is expected to turn into Europe's largest shopping center, with 135,000 sqm. of leased space.
