Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 87
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Foot Locker opens a flagship store in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya
Foot Locker has announced the opening of a 550-square-meter store at 20 Plaza Catalunya, the main square in the heart of Barcelona. Covering two floors, the new store has a special focus on sustainability and art, with mannequins made from reused sneakers and original store artwork inspired by the diversity ...
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After rising by 83.1% in Q1, Foot Locker will downsize its U.S. fleet
After phasing out Runners Point in Germany, the Foot Locker group is now planning to phase out its mall-based Footaction chain in the U.S. About two-thirds of its 230-odd stores will be closed over the next couple of years as leases expire, while the others will be converted to the ...
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Decathlon France is testing an in-store “sport and health” corner
Decathlon is testing an interactive “educational corner” on sport and health, with a focus on connected devices, at its main Decathlon Campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, in the north of France. The new space is meant to allow customers to benefit from personalized advice about how to improve their lifestyle in ...
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Google to open in NYC its first permanent retail store
Google is opening its first permanent retail store this summer at the company’s Chelsea campus in New York City, which is already home to many of Google’s 11,000-plus NYC employees. Google has not announced a date for the opening. The store will sell a variety of products, from Pixel phones ...
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Decathlon plans to introduce franchising in Switzerland
Decathlon is further expanding its activities in Switzerland, while introducing the concept of franchising in mountain areas. According to Swiss media reports, a first franchise store is to open in Valais in the winter of 2022. Decathlon also intends to generate further growth in its wholesale business. Since mid-2020, the ...
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Decathlon plans to expand further in Italy
Decathlon has plans for eight new stores in Italy by the end of the year, four of which have already been inaugurated. The new stores are located in Asti, Bologna, Lonato del Garda (Brescia), Ponte nelle Alpi (Belluno) Roma Ostiense, Taranto, Trapani and Venaria (Turin). The new openings, which also ...
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ArticleSigna is negotiating to use the Padel-Point name in Spain
Signa Sport United is in negotiations to overcome a stumbling block to the use of its Padel-Point brand in Spain. As we reported in March, there already exists a pádel club called Padelpoint (no hyphen) – with an accompanying e-commerce site, padelpoint.es – in La Nuncia, just outside the Valencian ...
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Hervis proposes online video consulting
To come closer to the customer, the Austrian sports retailer Hervis Sports is supplementing its omnichannel service offering with a personal video consultation, especially in product areas that require a lot of advice, like skis and bikes. Working together with SPAR ICS, the IT subsidiary of its parent company, SPAR, ...
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Infographics & DataEarnings - Q1 2021 Results Adidas
This earnings briefing includes the highlights of the Q1 2021 from Adidas.
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Stores remain closed in Germany, will reopen in France
Sporting goods stores and other so-called “non-essential” physical retail operations are re-opening in all the major European countries except in Germany. They are set to open again in France on May 19. They have been rising sharply in England and Wales since they were allowed to open again on April ...
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Shares of Sports Direct’s parent reach a 52-week high
Frasers Group, which owns Sports Direct International and many other assets, has launched a new share buyback program, limiting the maximum aggregate purchase price at £60 million (€69m-$83m) for a total of up to ten million shares. It started on May 4 with the acquisition of 3,189 shares at an ...
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Angling Direct’s former CEO, Darren Bailey, is leaving
Darren Bailey, the former CEO and managing director of Angling Direct, is leaving the company. Bailey, who moved from CEO to non-executive director in 2019, informed the board that he would not stand for re-election at the May 11 annual meeting. He has been with the leading British online and ...
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Cisalfa expands its retail network after a 2.7% sales drop
Italy’s Cisalfa Sport Group suffered a relatively small decline of 2.7 percent in consolidated sales to €439.5 million in the financial year ended Feb. 28. Excluding revenues of €179 million from the Intersport business in Italy, Cisalfa Sport and its other integrated sporting goods retail chains had revenues of €366.4 ...
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Padel Nuestro seeks investors
According to anonymous sources cited by CMDsport, Grupo Padel Nuestro is in late-stage negotiations with various operators in the pádel market and other investors. The Spanish group hopes to raise capital chiefly for international expansion. According to the report, the negotiations follow on the heels of failed negotiations, from the ...
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JD buys a small meanswear retailer
JD Sports Fashion has acquired Oi Polloi, an upscale casual menswear store in Manchester, and its online shop. Founded in 2002, the retailer offers clothing under its own label as well as brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Converse, Keen, Patagonia, Barbour, Ralph Lauren, Superga, Levi’s, Stone Island and Armor Lux. ...
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No change planned in JD’s top management
In response to our inquiry, a spokesman for JD Sports Fashion denied a report in The Sunday Times that Peter Cowgill, the company’s dynamic executive chairman and CEO, was planning to step down from its day-to-day functions, hiring a CEO to help manage the group’s growing range of operations. He ...
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Sports Direct voted “worst” sports shop in Britain by customers
Sports Direct has been ranked as the U.K.’s worst sports shop, according to a survey conducted by a consumer specialist agency, Which? The poll asked 10,909 members of Which? and the general public in November about their most recent experiences of purchasing outdoor and sporting equipment at 29 of Britain’s ...
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Infographics & DataThe largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe - Q1 2021 Update
This exclusive interactive chart shows the largest e-commerce sports shops in Europe ranked by the number of website visitors in Q1 2021, with % changes vs June-August 2020. Included are regular sporting goods retailers and pure e-tailers. The chart and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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Infographics & DataQ1 2021 Results XXL Group
This earnings briefing includes the highlights of the Q1 2021 for XXL Group
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+++ On April 29, Decathlon opened its largest store in Bavaria with a focus on mountain and winter sports, cycling and water sports in Unterföhring near Munich under lockdown conditions (currently only offering Click&Collect and express pickup) +++ Lululemon has opened a 2,800-square-feet store at the Southgate shopping center in ...
