Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 192
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Joma has opened a new store in the airport of...
Joma has opened a new store in the airport of Valencia and another one in Havana, the capital of Cuba
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Bogner has opened its fourth Austrian shop at Sölden...
Bogner has opened its fourth Austrian shop at Sölden
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Route One, one of the first British skate and streetwear...
Route One, one of the first British skate and streetwear retailers to have launched an e-commerce site in 1998, has opened an interesting store in Bristol. Located just outside the Busy Cabot Circus, it measures 1,800 square feet and carries a wider range of products. Shoppers can use iPads to ...
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Il Gufo, an Italian children's wear producer with an interesting...
Il Gufo, an Italian children's wear producer with an interesting line of golf clothing for kids, has opened a flagship store on via Tornabuoni in Florence
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Peak Sports reduced the number of its dealers in China...
Peak Sports reduced the number of its dealers in China by 14% during the first nine months of this year
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Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the...
Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the owners of some 200 sporting goods retail stores, has acquired a 20 percent stake in Pros du Sport, a network of 350 technical sports stores. The latter will benefit from the same conditions offered to Twinner's members in purchasing and ...
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Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The...
Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The 85-square-meter shop is located in the City Park shopping mall of Ljubljana. The German producer of outdoor clothing, footwear and equipment is focusing on Eastern Europe, France, the U.K., the Benelux countries and China for its foreign expansion.
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A new franchised Intersport store is opening in Florence...
A new franchised Intersport store is opening in Florence
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Décathlon was acclaimed as the best sports retail chain in...
Décathlon was acclaimed as the best sports retail chain in Belgium, based on a survey by Q&A Research and Consultancy
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Atomic is introducing a new display system that facilitates the...
Atomic is introducing a new display system that facilitates the choice of its skis in the stores
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Volcom has opened its first store in Barcelona
Volcom has opened its first store in Barcelona
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Nike has chosen the trendy Ipanema district of Rio de...
Nike has chosen the trendy Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro as the location of its first “Brand Experience” store in Latin America. Fully owned and operated by Nike, the store has three floors covering a total of more than 1,200 square meters, and a Brand Space at the top ...
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Orage is opening next Dec. 1 its first European store...
Orage is opening next Dec. 1 its first European store at Val d'Isère through a local dealer, Misty Fly, which will add some complementary products. Coalision, the Canadian company that owns this brand of skiwear, specializing in the freeski segment, sees this as a test for a possible rollout of ...
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Décathlon has opened its 17th German store. It is strategically...
Décathlon has opened its 17th German store. It is strategically located in Essen, where Karstadt has its head office. Décathlon has inaugurated a new shop in the centre of Valencia, Spain. Distributed on two floors for a total surface of 5,470 square meters, the shop is the 97th in Spain ...
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Nicolas Berggruen, owner of Karstadt, and Andrew Jennings, who has...
Nicolas Berggruen, owner of Karstadt, and Andrew Jennings, who has been running the company for the past 20 months, have declared to the media over the past few weeks that they have no intention to divest its Karstadt Sports operation. They have plans to use more technology in the stores ...
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An international online retailer based in Spain, Tradeinn, is launching...
An international online retailer based in Spain, Tradeinn, is launching what it describes as the first international factory outlet for sports products on the internet. Called Outletinn, it will market the closeouts of various brands, offering discounts of between 40 and 80 percent from the original prices. Following in some ...
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Indian newspapers have reported that more than 150 retail franchisees...
Indian newspapers have reported that more than 150 retail franchisees running Reebok mono-brand stores in India held a virulent demonstration in New Delhi earlier this monthy. They vented their anger about the measures taken by the Adidas Group to alter its relationship with Reebok franchises, which should lead to a ...
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Niketown Berlin will close in summer 2013. The 3,500-square-meter megastore,...
Niketown Berlin will close in summer 2013. The 3,500-square-meter megastore, located in Tauentzienstrasse, was inaugurated in 1999 and was the first of that kind in Europe. Nike has 10 similar megastores around the world but London will be the only remaining Niketown in Europe after the closing of Berlin. It ...
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Fila has set out plans to open 60 more stores...
Fila has set out plans to open 60 more stores in India with its local licensing partner Cravatex by the end of 2014, adding to its current 40 stores in the country. The Italian sportswear brand is willing to capitalize on Adidas' decision to reduce its Reebok stores in India ...
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El Corte Inglés will join the AMS Sourcing buying group...
El Corte Inglés will join the AMS Sourcing buying group starting Jan. 1. The Dutch buying group currently encompasses 13 other retail members, including Ahold, Delhaize Group, Esselunga, Jerónimo Martins and Morrisons, in 28 European countries. With this decision, El Corte Inglés aims at getting better buying conditions for both ...
