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Switzerland joins the retail lockdown
Joining Germany and Austria, the Swiss government has ordered the closure of all non-essential physical shops, starting on Monday, Jan. 18. The Swiss ban will last through the end of February, affecting all kinds of sports shops, many of which work a lot with winter sports. However, many Swiss ski ...
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Sports retailers scored better than other specialty retailers in France
Going through two Covid-related lockdowns, French specialty retailers saw their sales decline on average by 18 percent in 2020, although their online turnover jumped by 80 percent for the year, including a growth of 85 percent in December, according to their trade association, Procos. Shoe retailers suffered the biggest losses ...
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German winter sports retailers ask for special government aid
Rainer Angstl, the manager of Sport Schuster in Munich, and the managing directors of more than 170 other German sports retailers that depend heavily on the winter sports business have signed an open letter to the federal government, asking for subsidies based on the monthly gross profits that they are ...
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Intersport retailer makes a fuss over the newly extended German retail lockdown
After a consultation with the state governments, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Jan. 5 that a nationwide retail lockdown for the sale of non-essential goods will be prolonged until Jan. 31 because of the ongoing high level of contaminations from the Covid-19 virus. It started on Dec. 16 and ...
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Sports & outdoor retail rose by 7.2% in the U.K. in 2020
Sports and outdoor retailers survived the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.K. last year. Spending on their products rose by 7.2 percent, according to Barclaycard, which noted in particular the boom in home fitness while gyms were closed. Home improvement items and furniture scored similar increases. In contrast, general clothing contracted ...
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+++ Go Sport has unveiled a new more digital store concept at its 1,800-square-meter location on Place de la République in Central Paris +++ Intersport has opened two new modern franchised stores with optimized visual merchandising in Switzerland, located in Sierre and Grindelwald +++ Sporthaus Saemann, a German sports retailer ...
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ArticleE-tailers and fewer ski resorts escape new anti-Covid measures
Frasers Group, the parent company of the Sports Direct chain, was the first major retailer in the U.K. to withdraw its guidance for its current financial year after the government, on Dec. 19, ordered the shutdown of all stores selling non-essential products in London and Eastern and Southeastern England. They ...
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Sport 2000 Gigasport is Sports Retailer of the Year in Austria
Sport 2000 Austria is delighted that two of its retail members are among the three winners of this year’s Austrian sports business award, Victor. First place went to Sport 2000 Gigasport, with Bründl Sports, a former Intersport member located in Kaprun, coming in second. Sport 2000 Simon from Saalfelden made ...
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Burton is paying sales commissions to wholesalers and retailers
According to Boardsport Source, Burton has initiated in certain European countries a pilot version of the “Sales Incentive Program” it has set up in the U.S. Employees at its wholesale partners in in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are receiving a commission, or “cash bonus,” on the sale of Burton x ...
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Infographics & DataThe Spanish Sports Retail Market
This interactive chart shows the largest spanish sports retailers by revenue, total market size 2019, market shares and revenue development vs the previous year. This chart can be downloaded as JPG, PNG or PDF.
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Denmark extends Covid-related restrictions for retail and sports, but sports retailers are happy
Danish sporting goods retailers indicate that their sales have been higher overall this year than in 2019 - in spite or because of the pandemic. Public authorities have encouraged people to practice sports, especially outdoors. As they have been saving money on anything except e-commerce, they are also said to ...
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+++ Rossignol is opening its first flagship store in Lyon, located in the elegant Presqu’Ile district of the French city +++ Skechers has opened its first flagship store in Munich on the city’s high-traffic Kaufingerstrasse +++ Nike’s Jordan brand is opening a 4,500-square-foot store in Manila, at Bonifactio Global City, ...
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Runners Need plans further retail expansion
Runners Need will be opening 10 stores in 2021. The British retailer has opened nine stores this year – in Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast, Kingston Upon Thames, South Cerney, Chester, Brighton and London’s Covent Garden and Islington – and now operates 43. It has also recently enjoyed its best e-commerce sales, ...
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Infographics & DataThe German Sports Retail Market
This interactive chart shows the largest german sports retailers by revenue, total market size 2019, market shares and revenue development vs the previous year. This chart can be downloaded as JPG, PNG or PDF.
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ArticleIntersport embarks in retail media in Germany
After two years of preparation, Intersport Germany has launched a new retail media service that allows brands from inside and outside the sporting goods industry to advertise themselves through the offline and online channels of some of its affiliated retail members. The clients will benefit from this new service by ...
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ArticleA shorter retail lockdown will benefit the trade
Fortunately for European sporting goods retailers, the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears so far to have been more manageable, leading some governments to relax a ban on sales of non-essential products in physical stores after only about one month of enforcement – a lot less than during the ...
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+++ XXL Sports & Outdoor has commissioned a 7,000-square-meter, robotized warehouse for the Austrian market that will open next year in Enzersdorf, near Vienna’s airport +++ Daka Sport, the Dutch retailer, has completed the transformation of four Sportsworld stores it had acquired last year with its new Daka Megastore in ...
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AnalysisAnalysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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The Nike United retail concept goes live
Nike is introducing a new retail concept, called Nike United, at nine locations around the world, including one at East Kilbride in the U.K. The others are in the U.S., China and South Korea. Coming after the Nike House of Innovation, Nike Rise and Nike Live, the new concept is ...
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ArticleNPD: The sports market recovered in Q3 in Europe, but pure e-tailers lost market share
The consumption of sports apparel and footwear declined by 11.5 percent in the first nine months of 2020 in the five major European markets – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. – according to NPD, which has kindly agreed to share with us again some of the detailed market ...
