Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 192
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After opening a single-brand store for its Fire & Ice...
After opening a single-brand store for its Fire & Ice brand on the German island of Sylt, Bogner is opening a slightly smaller one on the same island under its own name. The Bogner shop offers items from its eponymous collection, as well as those of Sonia Bogner and Fire ...
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Intersport Germany has won the creativity award of ZGV, the...
Intersport Germany has won the creativity award of ZGV, the country's federation of buying groups and cooperatives. ZGV awarded the buying and franchising group because of its initiatives for better quality, service, advice and a reasonable value-for-money ratio. Intersport won over two other nominees, Garant Möbel and Noweda, which are ...
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Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the...
Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the Oberrauch family, has opened a new, innovative store across from its renovated store in downtown Brunico. Spread over 785 square meters on five floors, the new store is the company's 7th Alpinhaus, specializing in outdoor and winter sports products. It ...
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Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of...
Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of ATPWorldTourStore.com through an expanded retail partnership between Tennis Warehouse and the ATP. The two entities have been working together since 2000. The expanded website means that fans in Europe can get the same service as those in the U.S., while ...
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After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an...
After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an attractive new and more technical, fashionable and entertaining store concept after an investment of more than €10 million in the expansion and refurbishment of its flagship store in the Quatre Temps shopping center of Paris, the highest-traffic mall in France. ...
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Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom...
Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom of the high-traffic Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The 130-square-meter store is described as an intermediary stage toward a new retail concept that will be presented in mid-2013. A subsidiary of the Swiss Maus Frères group, Aigle already has about ...
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The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct,...
The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct, has opened a new concept on the top floor of its store at Piccadilly Circus in London. The 800-square-foot space is called the London Fight Zone and targets boxers and fans of mixed martial arts. It sells a range of ...
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The first negative winter sales results in years have caused...
The first negative winter sales results in years have caused an increase in bankruptcies among Norwegian sporting goods retailers. A drop in sales of about 10 percent in the last quarter of 2011 was the last straw for many sport retailers across the country. In the last three and a ...
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XXL Sport has opened an online store for Swedish customers....
XXL Sport has opened an online store for Swedish customers. The Norwegian sporting goods retail giant already operates one of the largest online stores for sports and outdoor products in Norway. Over the past two years, XXL has quickly expanded into neighboring Sweden with four stores in operation and three ...
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Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South...
Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South Korean capital of Seoul. As part of its global strategy, the company is placing a larger focus on the Asian market. Its Asian expansion began about two years ago when the brand was first launched in Japan. Now, as the ...
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Nike has opened a new shop-in-shop in an Intersport store...
Nike has opened a new shop-in-shop in an Intersport store in central Stockholm. The 100-square-meter space is heavily focused on football. It will display Nike's football collection leading up to this summer's European Football Championships. Customers will be able to find products such as training apparel and football shoes, ...
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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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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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ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport...
ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport 2000's licensee for Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, wants to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Garant Schuh + Mode, another buying group for shoe retailers. Additionally, Garant has sporting goods retail members under the Fair Play banner, mainly in the ...
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Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...
Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...
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Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain...
Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain in the coming months. The stores in Barcelona and Madrid will both include the latest Running Lab, which boasts the highest level of biomechanical analysis. Another high-tech attraction is the Asics Foot ID service, developed by the Asics Institute of ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
