Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 195
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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After 10 years of operations in the Czech Republic, Gigasport,...
After 10 years of operations in the Czech Republic, Gigasport, the Austrian sporting goods chain under the helm of Kastner & Öhler, has decided to pull out of the country. Sportfachandel, the German trade publication, reports that Gigasport sensed an ongoing negative evolution of the market, partly fueled by the ...
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Sportler, the big northern Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired...
Sportler, the big northern Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired bergzeit.de, a German-based online outdoor retailer that also runs two brick-and-mortar stores in Bavaria. Apparently, Sportler, run by Georg Oberrauch, the brother of Heiner Oberrauch, who runs the Salewa/Oberalp group, wants to expand its small online business through this acquisition. ...
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The Italian Sport Alliance buying group has launched a web...
The Italian Sport Alliance buying group has launched a web shop for GetFit, its private brand of home fitness equipment
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Sports Experts, the price-driven retail chain of Sport Eybl &...
Sports Experts, the price-driven retail chain of Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the single largest Austrian sports retailer, has opened its second German outlet in the town of Erding, which is known for its beer and is located outside Munich. The new store has a selling surface of 2,200 square ...
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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
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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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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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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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Macron has opened two new stores in Rimini and Helsinki,...
Macron has opened two new stores in Rimini and Helsinki, and it is preparing further openings at Alkmaar, in the Netherlands, and at Wrexham, in the U.K.
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Karstadt is planning to open two more sports stores this...
Karstadt is planning to open two more sports stores this year, after its recent new opening in Wiesbaden, and to add eight to ten new ones in the next three to four years, according to TextilWirtschaft. The well-informed German magazine also indicates that Karstadt Sports' 27 existing stores saw their ...
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Décathlon has gained 13 percentage points in Interbrand's ranking of...
Décathlon has gained 13 percentage points in Interbrand's ranking of the major retail banners in France, taking the seventh position after Carrefour, Auchan, Leroy Merlin and other retail chains
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has opened its first single-branded point of sale at Shin Kong Plaza, the prestigious shopping mall in Beijing on 15 square meters. According to Patrick Lambertz, the company's chief administrative officer, the shop reached a turnover of more than 10,000 yuan ...
