Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 191
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JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had...
JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had approved each of the resolutions put forward at an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday. They focused on the strategic deal announced earlier this month, which could see Dick's Sporting Goods acquiring a majority stake in the British sports retailer. The ...
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Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian...
Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian sporting goods chain, firmly denied rumors about the potential sale of the company. He said that any speculations on a sale by its owner, Spar Österr. Warenhandels-AG, was bare of any foundation. Hervis is a successful part of Spar Österr. ...
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Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the...
Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the help of a Swiss agency, Studioworks, to make it as modular and versatile as possible, with a minimum of elements. It uses wood generated along sustainable development guidelines and assembled without glue. The first module was recently installed on 60 ...
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Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its...
Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its Fire & Ice brand of young sports fashion under the domain fire-and-ice.com. At the same time, the company has opened its first corporate Fire & Ice store at Tinnum, on the German island of Sylt, with a surface of 150 ...
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The second Asics store in London, due to open this...
The second Asics store in London, due to open this summer at 527 Oxford Street, will feature new state-of-the-art technologies and facilities. Besides the full range of its running products, the store will also offer a selection of Asics products from the rugby, tennis, cricket, hockey and netball categories on ...
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Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...
Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...
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Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be...
Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be the first factory outlet for its retail members within the Sport 2000 International network. With its 2,500 square meters on Vienna's Brünner Strasse, it is also the biggest one for sports products in Austria. The store is offering more than ...
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Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store...
Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store in the Italian sea resort of Forte dei Marmi and is readying to add three other stores, all on the island of Sardinia
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The first JD store in Spain has opened in the...
The first JD store in Spain has opened in the new Serrallo Plaza shopping center of Granada. It is the first concrete result of the strategic alliance formed by JD Sports Fashion last June with Sprinter, the sporting goods retail chain of Estudio 2000 in which it acquired a 50.1 ...
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J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this...
J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this spring, and it is looking for other locations in other key German cities. The Swedish brand, which reportedly made a turnover equivalent to around €40 million last year, already has 30 stores around the world, including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kitzbühel, New ...
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Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in...
Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in June at Claye Souilly
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The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote...
The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote Pro Touch, its exclusive label for team sports. The cooperative invites its customers to design their own individual shirts at protouch.de. After various offers over the past two years, Intersport has developed a tool that lets its affiliated members in ...
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After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations...
After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations for mono-brand stores in Italy
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Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit...
Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit (“time for the mountains”), a German online retailer trading under bergzeit.de plus two brick-and-mortar stores in southern Germany. The transaction adds an annual turnover of more than €10 million, which is above Sportler's own internet sales. Sportler has been ...
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Foot Locker ended its latest financial year with 563 stores...
Foot Locker ended its latest financial year with 563 stores in Europe, although its total store count declined by 1.7 percent to 3,369 units. Outside the U.S., the group also had 129 stores in Canada and 91 in Australia and New Zealand. In other 10-K notes, Foot Locker purchased 82 ...
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The German Sport 2000 is launching a social media network...
The German Sport 2000 is launching a social media network called runvitation.de, which addresses the running community. The site offers maps to plan running trails and – in connection with Facebook – to share them with “running mates” and to organize joint activities. What is more, the affiliated retailers are ...
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Lacoste has inaugurated its first women-specific retail store. With a...
Lacoste has inaugurated its first women-specific retail store. With a space of 90 square meters, it is located in Paris' Galerie Passy Plaza. Meanwhile, the French brand is gearing up for the opening in May of a flagship store on Brompton Road, in the western part of London, that will ...
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Chervò is opening its first off-course flagship store on March...
Chervò is opening its first off-course flagship store on March 30. Featuring an innovative design developed by Umdasch to reflect the Italian golf brand's chic-tech spirit, the 180-square-meter structure will be located next to the company's head office at Costermano, north of Verona. It will take the place of a ...
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Volcom opens its third store in the U.K. at Boxpark,...
Volcom opens its third store in the U.K. at Boxpark, in the Shoreditch district of London
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Intersport Italia announces a new franchised Intersport store in a...
Intersport Italia announces a new franchised Intersport store in a shopping mall of Chieti, La Colonnetta
