Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 187
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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
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The 15 retail members of Full Equip Grup have agreed...
The 15 retail members of Full Equip Grup have agreed to join Twinner Iberia, consolidating its position as the third-largest national buying group in the Spanish sporting goods sector. Full Equip's members have 23 shops in the Balearic Islands which generate annual sales of €4.2 million. They are generally small. ...
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Forum Sport continues to expand outside the Basque region of...
Forum Sport continues to expand outside the Basque region of Spain by opening its second store in the region of Cantabria and the first one in Santander. Located in the El Alisal shopping center, it measures 2,100 square meters. With this opening, the Spanish chain, which is owned by Eroski, ...
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Billabong has renovated three corporate stores in France and opened...
Billabong has renovated three corporate stores in France and opened a new concept store on a franchised basis at Biscarrosse, a sea resort south of Bordeaux. The brand currently owns five stores in France and six more in other parts of Europe. It also has 15 franchised stores and 25 ...
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+++Seafolly has opened a shop in the Breuninger department store...
+++Seafolly has opened a shop in the Breuninger department store in Stuttgart
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Sports Direct and Tesco, the U.K.'s largest supermarket chain and...
Sports Direct and Tesco, the U.K.'s largest supermarket chain and the world's third largest, are reportedly in advanced talks over sharing space at some of the grocer's biggest stores. According to a report in the Financial Times, the sports retailer could take on the mezzanine floors in three of Tesco's ...
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D&K Distribution, which took over Conte of Florence last year,...
D&K Distribution, which took over Conte of Florence last year, plans to open a total of seven stores in Italy. The expansion plans also extend to foreign countries, according to a report, with Prague coming first in September, followed by locations in Spain and France. The store opening program will ...
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Asics is launching its first European online store in the...
Asics is launching its first European online store in the U.K. in September 2013. It already launched its virtual store in the U.S. at the end of April, followed by one in Japan. The U.K. was chosen for the European launch because of its high internet penetration in retailing and ...
