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OpinionOpinion: The short- vs long-term perspective of retail recovery
Guest Article by Magnus Ohlsson The pandemic has led consumers to shift interests and behavior for now, but not necessarily forever. This also means that short-term gains and losses should not be translated into an everlasting future. It is important to take into the equation the brand performance of the ...
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+++ Sports Direct has opened a 51,000-square-foot store in Newry’s Buttercrane Centre, one of its biggest in Northern Ireland +++ Foot Locker has opened a five-story space in Singapore’s Orchard Gateway @Emerald, with retail over three levels, to sell footwear and apparel collections from global brand partners while celebrating basketball ...
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ArticleNorwegian sports retail merger is challenged by the national anti-trust authority
Gresvig’s merger with the Sport 1 retail group, which was announced at the end of February, is being questioned by the Norwegian Competition Authority. The body has given the parties in the deal 15 days to respond to an official warning of a possible investigation, indicating that it plans to ...
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Boardriders sells a U.K. retail chain to its founder
After long discussions, Boardriders has resold selected assets of Two Seasons, a British action sports retailer, to its founder, Stuart Roberts, helped by two investors. Roberts founded Two Seasons in 1982, when he was 19 years old, and sold it to the former Billabong Group in 2007 when it had ...
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POC extends online retail team
Source: POC Ines Radacher POC, the Swedish manufacturer of helmets, goggles, body protection, clothing and accessories, is expanding its internal online retail (e-tailing) division due to the increasing digitalization of the retail sector. Therefore, Ines Radacher was appointed to the new position of “online account manager, DACH” ...
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ANWR Group to offer online seminars to help retailers
The ANWR Group, the international cooperative of independent retailers based in Mainhausen, Germany, that controls Sport 2000 and other franchised chains in various countries, estimates that orders for the next season will be around 30 percent below the average volume of the past years. For this reason, ANWR recommends its ...
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Volcom is expanding its retail footprint in China
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has called on the brand-building services of the China Ting Group to expand the footprint of one of its properties, Volcom, in the Middle Kingdom. In June the Californian boardsports brand opened two stores in China – at the Mixc Mall in Hangzhou and the Summer ...
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ArticleSwiss sports retailers predict a 10% sales drop this year
Excluding bikes, which are becoming more popular in the country, the Swiss sporting goods market achieved modest growth of 1.4 percent in 2019 in comparison to the previous year, according to the Swiss Association of Sports Retailers (Asmas), which compiled the figures in collaboration with the GfK market research institute. ...
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Real Madrid implements an omni-channel retail plan with Legends
Real Madrid is implementing an omni-channel retail program developed for it by Legends, a company that operates in sports, entertainment and attractions and seeks to provide “holistic solutions for legendary brands.” The football club is opening a new online store, in eight languages, for its official merchandise, but it will ...
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JD Sports is Celtic’s new retail partner
The Celtic football club has named JD Sports as its “official retail partner.” The official kits and training wear products of the Glasgow-based professional football club, which plays in the Scottish Premiership, will be available across the globe in JD’s physical and online stores as well as in the club’s ...
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French sport specialist retailers’ sales drop by 21%, but online sales are up 85%
According to a recent panel survey by the French federation of specialist retailers (Procos), specialist retailers across all sectors in the country suffered a 31.8 percent sales decline in the first half of the year as compared with the same period in 2019, but their online sales grew by 50 ...
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Three more markets for Zalando’s Connect Retail program
From July, Zalando will be extending its offer to waive commissions on its Connected Retail program to Poland, Sweden and Spain. The initiative, which was originally aimed at supporting brick-and-mortar stores during the coronavirus crisis, was introduced in Germany and the Netherlands on April 1. The offer will run until ...
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+++ Mizuno has opened a 200-square-meter shop in Turin, its first flagship store in Europe +++
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ArticleSport 2000 helps retail members through the corona crisis
The coronavirus crisis has shown that buying groups can perform some useful services for their members besides handling relations between retailers and their suppliers. While continuing to work on new store concepts, Sport 2000 International has been helping many of its retail members, who run 3,950 stores in 23 countries, ...
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ArticleOpinion: Amazon and other marketplaces may be in for a reckoning over illegal sales
Why the sale of illegal products through online platforms could become a problem for Amazon and other marketplaces – and why the widespread circumvention of EU competition law may soon be over
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Germany’s VAT cut may hit retailers across the border
Germany decided on June 3 to reduce the VAT rate on non-food products to 16 percent from 19 percent, starting from July 1 and through the balance of this year, to give a boost to consumption and the economy. It has also cut the VAT rate for restaurants from 19 ...
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McArturGlen to launch rent relief package for its retail partners
McArthurGlen, the international operator of designer factory outlet centers, has launched a rent relief package for its retail partners until the end of this year. The group is waiving all minimim base rent, turnover-based rent and marketing charges for tenants in all of its centers that were closed from April ...
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ArticleIspo measures the pandemic’s effects on sports retail
Ispo has released the results of a survey it launched on April 9 to determine the effects of the pandemic on European sports and outdoor retailers. Among other interesting points, the survey indicated that Covid-19 began to strike their businesses early, that many resorted to home deliveries and the internet ...
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Fedas fears big sales losses for sports retailers
The Federation of European Sports Retailers (Fedas) has developed a plan of action to improve the protection of employees, customers and particularly vulnerable persons in the retail sector from coronavirus infection. The concept was developed under the leadership of Peter Bruggmann, vice president of Fedas and president of the Swiss ...
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Eagle Creek donates face masks to European retail partners
Eagle Creek, the producer of travel bags and backpacks from southern California, is donating thousands of face masks to independent retailers in Europe. From next week, the company’s European retail partners will receive 2,400 masks intended not for resale but for the staffs of retail stores, in order to minimize ...
