Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 183
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Intersport is partnering with The North Face for its first...
Intersport is partnering with The North Face for its first pan-European campaign in the outdoor category, as it has already done with Adidas and Nike in football, Reebok in fitness and Asics in running. A co-branded “More Jacket. More Adventure” campaign is being rolled out across 14 countries this autumn ...
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Marmot has opened its first single-brand franchised store in the...
Marmot has opened its first single-brand franchised store in the U.K. in partnership with Adventure Peaks, a British outdoor retailer and expedition company. Located in Ambleside in the Lake District National Park, the store has a selling surface of 180 square meters (more in The Outdoor Industry Compass).
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As of last month, 42 retailers had adopted the new...
As of last month, 42 retailers had adopted the new SportXtreme concept proposed by the GMS buying group at the beginning of this year. Thirteen have signed contracts with GMS in Germany, eight in Austria and 21 in the Netherlands. One Dutch store has already been renovated based on the ...
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Karstadt will set up 50 Timberland shop-in-shops of up to...
Karstadt will set up 50 Timberland shop-in-shops of up to 40 square meters in its department stores throughout Germany, offering either shoes or clothing or both. The first such area has already opened in Karstadt's store in Essen, where the retailer has its head office. Another one is due to ...
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Nike is opening a store of 550 square meters in...
Nike is opening a store of 550 square meters in the Berlin Mitte district and two more are said to be planned in the German capital, in the new shopping district at Leipziger Platz and in the Europa-Center at Breitscheidplatz
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Twinner France has signed an agreement with ABN AMRO Commercial...
Twinner France has signed an agreement with ABN AMRO Commercial Finance that will allow all the affiliated French retailers in the Twinner and Pro du Sport to benefit from centralized settlements and invoicing for their 550 shops. Twinner France had broken one year ago a similar agreement with Garant Schuh, ...
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The Adidas Group has picked the town of Leeds to...
The Adidas Group has picked the town of Leeds to open a regional flagship Adidas store with a wide assortment of sports and fashion ranges. The outlet of just over 600 square meters opened at the Trinity shopping center in August is the first English one outside London to feature ...
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New Balance has opened its second corporate Spanish store in...
New Balance has opened its second corporate Spanish store in Barcelona
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Helly Hansen has inaugurated its first store in Barcelona, the...
Helly Hansen has inaugurated its first store in Barcelona, the fourth one in Spain
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Lacoste, the French sportswear brand, has opened an online store...
Lacoste, the French sportswear brand, has opened an online store in China. It reportedly offers 800 products in apparel, footwear and accessories. The number is still far below the more than 2,000 products available at online stores in the larger European countries. Lacoste is represented in China with six stores ...
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Mango has unveiled a collection of T-shirts, softshells and other...
Mango has unveiled a collection of T-shirts, softshells and other sports clothing, called Mango Sport. It is featured in 155 of its stores in 25 countries, and reportedly it should become a permanent feature of its shops. The launch follows a similar initiative by H&M, which is said to be ...
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Golfsmith International is partnering with Golfzon, a publicly listed golf...
Golfsmith International is partnering with Golfzon, a publicly listed golf simulation company in South Korea, to open a chain of stores in and around Seoul over the next five years. The first one should emerge before the end of 2013. Golfzon is expanding into golf course management and related industries. ...
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X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base...
X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base layers and X-Socks, has opened its first single branded store in Germany. The shop is located in Hofstatt-Passage, a shopping mall in downtown Munich, and has a selling surface of 40 square meters. The store is operated by Tre Vertriebs ...
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K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of...
K-Way is opening its first boutique in France. As of the beginning of September, the brand, which already has a boutique in New York, will have a shop in rue de Charonne, near place de la Bastille, a young and trendy area of Paris. Originally founded in France, K-Way is ...
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On Aug. 1, New Era is set to open a...
On Aug. 1, New Era is set to open a new mono-brand store in Germany, in the Mein Zeil shopping center in Frankfurt. New Era already owns and manages a mono-brand store in Berlin. The brand's sales in Germany increased by about 25 percent in 2012, as compared to the ...
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Arc'teryx is opening in London its first stand-alone store in...
Arc'teryx is opening in London its first stand-alone store in Europe, in partnership with the British Snow+Rock chain. The new door will be located at the St Martin's Courtyard, in London's Covent Garden, a stylish shopping and dining destination, not far from the existing Snow+Rock's store in Mercer Street. The ...
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Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany. Located...
Décathlon has opened its first distribution center in Germany. Located at Schwetzingen, near Mannheim, it measures 30,000 square meters and employs 180 people, with a plan to raise the staff to 300. The new structure will service the 18 stores that Décathlon has in the country and the German customers ...
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Hummel opened a shop corner in the Citadium mega-store in...
Hummel opened a shop corner in the Citadium mega-store in Paris last April, offering also a presentation of the brand's 90-year history
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Rip Curl has inaugurated a highly technical corporate surf shop...
Rip Curl has inaugurated a highly technical corporate surf shop of 180 square meters at Bidart, on the Basque coast of France. The offer concentrates on wetsuits and surfboards, including second-hand boards.
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In a world first, Moncler has opened a store for...
In a world first, Moncler has opened a store for children's wear only in the Italian mountain resort of Courmayeur
