Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 201
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Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing...
Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing a sporting goods corner at one of its stores at Fontaine in the Isère region, according to sport-guide.com. Named Go Sport Basics, the area features only private label products by Go Sport, the French chain of sporting goods stores which, ...
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Salomon will open a store in Chamonix next December in...
Salomon will open a store in Chamonix next December in partnership with a major local retailer, Coquoz Sport
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Oxbow is opening new stores in two French cities,...
Oxbow is opening new stores in two French cities, Dijon and Colmar
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Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride...
Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride n' Roll in at LidenStasse, in Potsdam. The company plans to open more Rusty Collaboration Stores throughout Europe. The goal of the stores is for the brand and the retailer to work together on sales.
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Columbia and Sorel are launching online sales to consumers in...
Columbia and Sorel are launching online sales to consumers in Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain (more in The Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of...
Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of more than 5,000 square meters in June in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic. It will be the country's largest sporting goods store. The record in terms of size had been held by a store of 3,700 m² ...
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Décathlon has reportedly given up on a project for its...
Décathlon has reportedly given up on a project for its first superstore in Andorra for several reasons, including a requirement that it could not have control over the operation under the local legislation
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Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in...
Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in Mannheim, whose selling surface of 9,600 square meters makes it one of the largest sports stores in Europe. The GPS specialty brand offers its range on a surface of some 20 square meters.
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The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St....
The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St. Andrews in Scotland, has reopened after being closed for remodeling over the winter. The shop has a new “old” look, featuring furniture that Tom Morris himself owned and the same design for the shop's sign as was used when he ...
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JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in...
JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in and around Paris and five to six shops in Marseille as the group focuses on its development in France this year, chairman Peter Cowgill said in an interview with the Financial Times. Cowgill explained that the JD format, focused on ...
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Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding...
Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding brand, which is owned by Billabong, is most recently opening shop in Paris, following on the heels of a new store in Plymouth, England, earlier this month and the March opening in Barcelona. The new Paris shop, on the Rue ...
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Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within...
Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within the next few months. First out is a 154-square-meter store at Frölunda Torg, Gothenburg. Locations for the other four stores have yet to be announced. Peak Performance is also expanding internationally. New stores are to be opened in Switzerland, Italy ...
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Quiksilver has opened a new flagship store in the Orchard...
Quiksilver has opened a new flagship store in the Orchard Central Mall in Singapore, its fourth retail location in the country in partnership with RSH (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
