Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 200
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Shareholders of JJB Sports will vote later this month on...
Shareholders of JJB Sports will vote later this month on a proposal to issue 162.5 million new shares in order to raise £65 million (€74m-$106m) so it can continue with its restructuring plan. The four largest shareholders, Harris Associates, Crystal Amber, Invesco Asset Management and the Bill & Melinda Gates ...
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Timberland has turned a temporary store in Paris into its...
Timberland has turned a temporary store in Paris into its third company-owned store in France. The brand plans to raise the number of corporate stores in Italy from five to seven this year, including one just inaugurated in Padua, while the number of franchised stores in the country should increase ...
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Legea has opened its seventh Spanish store in Malaga, and...
Legea has opened its seventh Spanish store in Malaga, and the Italian brand of football clothing wants to have a franchised store in each province of the country
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Kaufhof has integrated a specialty sports store under the Sportarena...
Kaufhof has integrated a specialty sports store under the Sportarena banner in its department store in Düsseldorf. The selling surface is 4,400 square meters. This store is the 13th of its type in Germany after one door was closed in a shopping mall in Oberhausen.
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Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport...
Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport departments ranging from 50 to 300 square meters in most Swedish stores. Claes Forsberg, former chief executive of Svenskt Sportforum, is responsible for this launch. At first the focus will be on athletic shoes and running clothes. A former athlete, ...
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Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged...
Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged stores in France this year, all in the Paris region. The first one is set to open shortly on 1,500 m² in the area of Herblay-Franconville, across from a Décathlon superstore. Another one, measuring 2,000 m², should take the place ...
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Li-Ning is going to open its first corporate store in...
Li-Ning is going to open its first corporate store in Spain, located in Barcelona. It is reportedly looking also at setting up a couple of factory outlets in the country. While working with L-Fashion Group of Finland in other European countries, the brand is covering Spain and Portugal through a ...
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Runners Point, the German specialty chain, is moving into Switzerland...
Runners Point, the German specialty chain, is moving into Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The operation is going to be handled through a local partner, Futura AG. The latter was founded and is run by Stephan Ruggle, who was the chief executive of Swiss Intersport until late 2008. He then switched to ...
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Franz-Leo Drucks, the chairman of Intersport Germany's supervisory board, has...
Franz-Leo Drucks, the chairman of Intersport Germany's supervisory board, has opened his fifth store in the town of Eschweiler on a selling surface of 1,100 square meters. The retailer from Aachen now has an estimated total surface of 8,500 square meters in five towns in the region between Cologne and ...
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O'Neill has opened new stores in Hasselt, Belgium, and in...
O'Neill has opened new stores in Hasselt, Belgium, and in Dresden, Germany. The 250-square-meter shop is in the center of the old town of Hasselt, where most shopping is in the city. The Dresden store occupies 150 square meters in the ECE shopping center of the city. O'Neill plans to ...
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A.S. Adventure, the Belgian retailer with 37 stores in that...
A.S. Adventure, the Belgian retailer with 37 stores in that country and Luxembourg, has entered the French market with a 2,000-square-meter store in Reims-Thillois. The company, which also has 36 stores under the Bever Travel & Outdoor banner in the Netherlands and 59 Cotswold Outdoor shops in the U.K., touts ...
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Burberry is opening its biggest Chinese store on 1,100 m²...
Burberry is opening its biggest Chinese store on 1,100 m² in Beijing and is broadcasting the event on its website and other partner sites
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Puma is renovating its only remaining French store, located in...
Puma is renovating its only remaining French store, located in the Les Halles district of Paris, based on a new concept
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When Young Sport opens its first store in Frölunda Torg...
When Young Sport opens its first store in Frölunda Torg outside of Gothenburg on April 20, Sweden will get its first sports chain targeting only children and juniors between ages 2 and 14. The managing director is Marcus Björke, 25, who previously owned two big sport stores in western Sweden. ...
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Joma is opening its first Peruvian store in Lima as...
Joma is opening its first Peruvian store in Lima as well as its third Spanish store, located in Madrid's Calle Bravo Murillo
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Etnies is opening its first European stand-alone store next March...
Etnies is opening its first European stand-alone store next March 31 at Kingston Upon Thames, in the U.K.
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Citadium, the large Parisian fashion store managed by the Printemps...
Citadium, the large Parisian fashion store managed by the Printemps department store chain, is hosting an ephemeral presentation of Hummel's heritage collection between March 28 and April 9
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Usports, a new Swedish chain of sporting goods stores, plans...
Usports, a new Swedish chain of sporting goods stores, plans to open its first outlet next autumn at Stora Bernstorp outside Malmö. According to Sportfack, 20 Usports superstores are to be established across Sweden – each averaging 3,000 square meters and featuring six sections: team and racquet sports, fitness and ...
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Icebreaker's first TouchLab store in Western Canada opened last week...
Icebreaker's first TouchLab store in Western Canada opened last week in Vancouver. The 1,800-square-foot store is in the Kitsilano neighborhood of the city, which Icebreaker said is full of trendsetters and people who look after their health, making them a target demographic for the company. The store's décor features photos ...
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Recently placed under new ownership and leadership, Karstadt is busy...
Recently placed under new ownership and leadership, Karstadt is busy investing significant amounts in revamping its stores. Textilwirtschaft, the German trade publication for the apparel business, reports that the chain is investing €10-12 million in Frankfurt alone to refurbish its local flagship store and to increase the surface of its ...
