Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 189
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Dorel Industries plans to open a 4,200-square-foot Cannondale Sports store...
Dorel Industries plans to open a 4,200-square-foot Cannondale Sports store at Carle Place, New York, offering products from its various bicycle brands
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In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods...
In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods retail chain under the helm of the Migros cooperative, managed to increase its sales by 2.9 percent to 257 million Swiss francs (€211.2m-$276.3m) before VAT. Given an average deflation of retail prices for the chain of 1.0 percent, the actual increase ...
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Sportringen continues to grow in Sweden with a new 3000-square-meter...
Sportringen continues to grow in Sweden with a new 3000-square-meter outlet store in the town of Töcksfors and three more stores are in the works
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Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved...
Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved a gross turnover of about €394 million for the fiscal year ended in February, down by just 3.4 percent compared with its record sales in the previous year. The company said that it still managed to lift its operating profit. ...
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JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five...
JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five of the six Made in Sport stores operating in France and plans to convert them to the JD format, starting in the autumn, according to sport-guide.com. The Made in Sport chain had been created by the Printemps department store group, ...
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Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last...
Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last year, is opening its first company-owned store in Santa Monica, California
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Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to...
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to Asics for the retail brand strategy for its Onitsuka Tiger brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agency has already created the brand's shop windows for spring 2013. The Retaildesign blog gave a “best” note to its booth ...
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Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends...
Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends to open six new stores across Europe this year. The Austrian specialty retailer of board sports gear has not named the locations except for the two new stores to be opened in Germany in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The company already ...
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Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues...
Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues to develop internationally. According to sport-guide.com, it has opened its first store in Morocco, in Casablanca. It already has two stores in Spain, one in Brussels and one in the French territory of La Réunion. It has others in France. ...
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Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in...
Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in the prestigious residential area of Tangerang, Jakarta, last April 6. The premises include two floors for offices and a showroom. It is the first store where the Spanish company has used a new interior design that it will use to present Kelme's image ...
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The first physical Joma store in Hungary has opened its...
The first physical Joma store in Hungary has opened its doors in a shopping mall at Drebecen
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The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where...
The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where Amazon Germany's most important distribution center is located, have voted with an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike, claiming that the wages paid by the retailer are too low. The issue is that Amazon Germany is not bound to ...
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Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18,...
Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18, adding an additional retail channel for its affiliated retailers. The store at http://www.intersport.de went formally live with Kim Roether and Klaus Jost, the group's joint managing directors, pushing the button and ordering outdoor jackets for themselves. The group has been working ...
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Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50...
Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50 running specialty stores that it wants to have in Mainland China by the end of 2015. They are expected to contribute annual revenues of 1.5 billion yen (€188.1m-$241.3m). Located in Shanghai, the first such store features running stations for training ...
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Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel, has launched a new retail format called Runners Point World of Running. It has been implemented in a new flagship store of 500 square meters opened this week in the Thier Galerie, a shopping mall in Dortmund. Described as Europe's ...
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Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape...
Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape caused by Sport Eybl & Sports Experts' crisis, one of its competitors, Hervis Sports, has announced ambitious plans for expansion inside and outside Austria. The chain, a subsidiary of the Spar food chain, plans to open 10 new doors in ...
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Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese...
Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese real estate company, China Vanke, to help develop its presence in second- and third-tier cities in the country. The French retailer already has 57 stores in China, and they are mostly located in the larger urban areas, measuring between 4,000 ...
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Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the...
Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the Middle East, measuring 250 m², on Kish Island in Iran
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The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has...
The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has received a prize because of its contribution to the renovation of the retail community in the city's ancient Barrio Gótico
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Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first...
Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first German concept shop on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm
