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    Sport 2000 reports another record year

    2023-01-25T08:27:00Z

    Sport 2000 reports it has continued its growth trajectory of recent years, ending 2022 with earnings that surpass the historic 2021 record.

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    Absolute Teamsport continues to expand

    2023-01-06T11:12:00Z

    After 17 more stores joined Sport 2000’s premium concept for teamsport specialists in 2022 (bringing the current total in Europe to 23 Absolute Teamsport stores in 6 countries), the pace of expansion is set to continue in the new year: Sport 2000 says it plans to have 35 stores under ...

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    Austrian Sport 2000 retailer joins Running Experts Europe

    2022-12-23T11:27:00Z

    The Viennese running specialist WEMOVE, a long-time Sport 2000 dealer, has joined Running Experts Europe as the network’s first Austrian partner. The two WEMOVE running stores in downtown Vienna and in the Westfield Donau Zentrum shopping mall offer amateur and professional runners the most comprehensive range of premium running products ...

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    Sport 2000 runs employer branding campaign to support retail recruitment efforts

    2022-12-14T11:55:00Z

    Enhancing the attractivity of jobs in sports retail is the goal of the current cross-country employer branding efforts of Sport 2000, run in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. With advertisements, a social media campaign and selected tools and assets like the locally held ”Junior Sales Champion” competition offered to its ...

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    Sport 2000 Austria grows in 2022, is cautious with future forecasts

    2022-11-21T10:36:00Z

    The expansion of strategic focus areas and the further development of logistics and sustainability topics were the focus of the recent Sport 2000 Austria general meeting. For the calendar year 2022, Sport 2000 Austria continues to expect a sales increase of around nine percent. However, the board is cautious with ...

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    Danish orthopedics specialist KSO joins Running Experts Europe

    2022-11-10T16:25:00Z

    Source: SPORT 2000 From left to right: Jannich Hammer Marker, COO KSO, Jörg Seifert, Head of Division Running SPORT 2000, Jan Steinicke, CEO KSO. Danish running and orthopedics specialist Kaiser Sport & Orthopaedi (KSO) has become part of Running Experts Europe, the network of running specialty retailers ...

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    Sport 2000: first annual meeting of Absolute Teamsport retailers

    2022-10-11T10:44:00Z

    In late September, all 21 partners currently running a Sport 2000 Absolute Teamsport concept store gathered for the first time for an interchange of experience. The meeting of retailers from six countries took place in Antwerp, Belgium, and was supported by the main partner brands for the retail concept, Nike, ...

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    Sport 2000’s Absolute Run expansion continues with 9th German store

    2022-10-11T07:41:00Z

    Absolute Run Sport Pauli in Deggendorf in Southern Germany opened its doors on Oct. 6 as Sport 2000’s ninth German Absolute Run store. The existing 280-sqm store was completely remodeled for this purpose by owner Günter Pauli, a running specialist retailer for 30 years. A 20-meter-long running track now stretches ...

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    ANWR Media promotes Tim Wiese to management board

    2022-09-30T08:15:00Z

    Tim Wiese, in charge of the e-commerce activities of Sport 2000 GmbH (a subsidiary of ANWR Media GmbH), will be appointed to the management of ANWR Media by the ANWR Group’s executive board on Oct. 1. He will lead the company together with Michael Decker. “The relevance of online trade ...

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    Eighth Sport 2000 Absolute Run store opens, international expansion planned

    2022-09-28T09:16:00Z

    An eighth Absolute Run store (based on the Sport 2000 focus shop concept for running specialists) opened in Würzburg on Sept. 22. The owner is Jan Diekow, who together with concept provider Sport 2000 has reopened his Laufstil store on more than 250 square meters of retail space. Besides one ...

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    Sport 2000 Austria celebrates 50th anniversary

    2022-09-14T11:21:00Z

    Over the past 50 years, Sport 2000 Austria has developed from a small garage with ten retailers to Austria’s largest sports retailer community with currently 232 retailers. Sport 2000 Austria employs around 3,450 people and will achieve a projected turnover of 700 million euros in its anniversary year (estimate based ...

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    Sport 2000 digitizes NOS processing

    2022-09-09T04:06:00Z

    For the start of the spring/summer 2023 shopping season, Sport 2000 has, for the first time, completely digitally processed order preparation and entry for the NOS (never out of stock) segment. Together with MobiMedia and its digital order platform Quintet24, the retail group has developed a system that enables a ...

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    New brand to replace all Sport 2000 private labels from summer 2023

    2022-07-11T14:41:00Z

    Beginning with the 2023 summer season, Sport 2000 International’s new Witeblaze brand of durable, versatile products is set to replace all of Sport 2000’s current private label brands, according to the company’s Internet blog. This is the company’s response to the social trend of “buy less, buy better.” “Often, high-quality, ...

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    Sport 2000 launches new internationally harmonized brand claim and campaign

    2022-04-28T10:56:00Z

    For the first time in the company’s history, Sport 2000 has worked out an internationally harmonized brand campaign under the new claim “Home of experts” that rolls out in all Sport 2000 countries this April. With the tagline “Welcome Home” at the heart of the campaign, Sport 2000 aims to ...

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    Sport 2000 offers running sales training for specialists and general retailers

    2022-04-14T09:19:00Z

    With its new training format – “expert running consultancy,” a special training program for the sales staff of its running specialty stores and in the running section of generalist stores – the running division of the German Sport 2000 buying group seeks to instill a deeper insight into biomechanics, anatomy ...

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    Sport 2000 Absolute Teamsport concept grows by two new specialized stores in Germany

    2022-03-29T14:33:00Z

    Two new shops in Germany have opened their doors under the Absolute Teamsport concept by Sport 2000. The concept aims to provide a specialized, comprehensive range of team sports products and services. With the new Absolute Teamsport Rauscheid in Alsdorf and the Absolute Teamsport Burdenski Sportswear in Bremen, the total ...

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    Sport 2000 opens Mega Store in Sofia, Bulgaria

    2022-03-10T15:17:00Z

    Under the Sport Depot banner, Sport 2000 has opened a Mega Store in Sofia, its largest store in Bulgaria with 3,000 square meters of retail space and four floors, each specializing in a different type of sport. The new retail concept of the store is characterized by a contemporary interior ...

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    Seventh Absolute Run store opened

    2022-02-04T12:44:00Z

    Sport 2000 reports that the seventh Absolute Run store opened on Feb. 4 in Germany. The owner of the store, which has been existing as “Laufsport Andreas” since 2006 in the city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia (80,000 inhabitants), is Petra Benecke, who has now reopened her store as “Absolute ...

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    Former Sport 2000 CEO joins a Dutch insole startup

    2022-01-19T18:07:00Z

    Markus Hupach, who recently left as joint CEO of Sport 2000 in Germany, is joining the Dutch startup Arion based in Eindhoven as CEO, effective immediately. Arion’s 7-year-old parent, the sports tech company Ato-Gear, claims to be ushering in “a revolution in athletic footwear” with Arion, a digital software/insole solution ...

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    Sports retailers confirm 2021 recovery

    2022-01-07T18:18:00Z

    As previously reported, the sporting goods market fell by an estimated 5 percent in Europe in 2020, due to the pandemic, with only 16 out of 64 leading retailers in 15 European countries reporting flat or higher figures. The year 2021 was much better, with many retailers enjoying double-digit growth ...