Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 194
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Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Ortona...
Intersport Italia has inaugurated a new franchised store at Ortona
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The German section of Sport 2000 has bundled a package...
The German section of Sport 2000 has bundled a package for its affiliated retailers to improve their presence online. The group's e-services solutions are a toolbox of five modular pieces that the retailers can pick according to their demand. The new service starts with a basic offer: a website in ...
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Puma customers in Copenhagen will be able to design their...
Puma customers in Copenhagen will be able to design their own sneakers. Together with a Danish retailer, Rezet, Puma will open the Creative Factory, a store where customers can choose the materials and colors for their new Puma shoes using an iPad. The store, which is due to open on ...
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Puma inaugurated its first full-price store in Spain on Aug....
Puma inaugurated its first full-price store in Spain on Aug. 24. Located in Barcelona, in the central and well-known Passeig de Gracia, the store occupies a surface of 250 square meters on two floors, filled with audiovisual equipment including iPads from which customers can directly buy Puma's products.
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Fans of Rapala can now shop in the comfort of...
Fans of Rapala can now shop in the comfort of their own homes. The maker of fishing lure, knives and other products has gone live with its new e-commerce site, rapala.com, carrying 10 of the company's brands. The site was designed on the Demandware Commerce platform.
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DC Shoes, the footwear company of Quiksilver, has opened its...
DC Shoes, the footwear company of Quiksilver, has opened its first Central European door through a franchisee in Innsbruck, Austria. The store is run by Markus Baier, a co-founder of moreboards.com, a network of currently 17 stores in the country. Baier also operates three Quiksilver-branded franchises in the Austrian cities ...
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Etnies has opened a pop-up store in London showcasing its...
Etnies has opened a pop-up store in London showcasing its “Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree” program. The program plants one tree in the rainforests in the Brazilian state of São Paulo for each purchase of Etnies' Jameson 2 and Jameson 2 Eco shoes. Its goal is to plant 100,000 ...
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The NBA will partner with Kitbag, one of Europe's leading...
The NBA will partner with Kitbag, one of Europe's leading online sports retailers, to launch the league's official e-commerce store for Europe, the Middle East and Africa next month. NBAStore.eu will offer NBA-branded products from the league's official merchandise partners, including Adidas, the NBA's official outfitter, as well as Spalding, ...
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Last week, Puma opened its first sustainable store in a...
Last week, Puma opened its first sustainable store in a suburb of Bangalore, India. The 800-square-meter store was locally developed and sourced, and was designed for energy savings and environmentally friendly practices. The lower levels are reserved for retail sales, while and upper floor and a terrace will feature a ...
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Reebok has opened its first Fit Hub in the U.S.,...
Reebok has opened its first Fit Hub in the U.S., at 37th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York. A Reebok retail store is on the street level, with the brand's gym, CrossFit Box, on the lower level. The employees there are fitness and product experts who can give the ...
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W.L. Gore & Associates has chosen PFSweb to handle its...
W.L. Gore & Associates has chosen PFSweb to handle its e-commerce operations in the U.S. and Europe for Gore Bike Wear and Gore Running Wear. The two new brands were launched in the U.S. in July; their online presence will start September. The new site is www.goreapparel.com.
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Nike Germany confirmed that the Niketown store in Berlin would...
Nike Germany confirmed that the Niketown store in Berlin would be closed down next summer, as part of the American sports brand's global retail strategy. Situated in Charlottenburg, the store of about 3,300 square meters was among the first Niketowns to open in Europe and it remains Nike's only store in Berlin. ...
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Bench has taken over ownership of two stores operated by...
Bench has taken over ownership of two stores operated by franchisees in Berlin and Munich
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Quiksilver has inaugurated a big new Boardriders store at its...
Quiksilver has inaugurated a big new Boardriders store at its new European headquarters at Saint Jean de Luz, France
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Volcom is ready to start its first store in Spain....
Volcom is ready to start its first store in Spain. The exact address has not been disclosed, but the company has said that the store would be located in Barcelona.
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Nike has opened a 14,000-square-foot store dedicated to runners in...
Nike has opened a 14,000-square-foot store dedicated to runners in New York City. The two-story shop is at Fifth Avenue and West 20th Street and includes an iPad gait analysis, free bag storage for runners and a free club for evening runs with cunning coach Margot Fleming.
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French suppliers and retailers have agreed on an extension of...
French suppliers and retailers have agreed on an extension of the deal that exempts them from the more stringent payment rules adopted in France in 2008 in the Loi de Modernisation de l'Economie (LME). This law called for retailers to pay their invoices 60 days after receipt at the latest, ...
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Thomas Storck, former financial manager at Galeria Kaufhof, has become...
Thomas Storck, former financial manager at Galeria Kaufhof, has become head of multi-channel retailing, Sportarena, sustainability and purchasing, a position that became vacant after the departure of Ralf Pütmann in June last year
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Netshoes, a big Brazilian online retailer of footwear, sporting goods...
Netshoes, a big Brazilian online retailer of footwear, sporting goods and other products, has launched the first online NBA store in Brazil. The new LojaNBA.com website offers a comprehensive assortment of NBA merchandise including the NBA sports apparel and footwear line licensed by Adidas, basketballs by Spalding and other NBA ...
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Hannover Finanz says it wants to cash out of Runners Point,...
Hannover Finanz says it wants to cash out of Runners Point, reselling the 75 percent stake that it acquired in 2005 in this big German sporting goods retail chain from the former Karstadt Quelle group. The German private equity firm has asked Deloitte to find new investors for the company. Runners ...
