All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 29, Issue 31-32
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Lululemon will be opening a new store at the Royal...
Lululemon will be opening a new store at the Royal Exchange shopping mall in Manchester this autumn. The Canadian brand and retailer, specializing in technical clothes for yoga and running, already has a small showroom on the nearby Saint Anns Place, where it hosts sports events for runners. Also in ...
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Swix Sport's warehouse just north of the Norwegian town of...
Swix Sport's warehouse just north of the Norwegian town of Lillehammer is only two years old, but it is being expanded by an additional 5,100 square meters. Construction is scheduled for completion by the summer 2019. The new warehouse will be fully automated as the result of an investment of ...
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XXL has introduced the Klarna in-store payment system, a service...
XXL has introduced the Klarna in-store payment system, a service that gives customers the opportunity to split their payment into instalments, postpone it or pay all at once, all by telephone. The new payment system will be rolled out in all of XXL's 77 stores in the Nordic countries during ...
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Russia’s production of sports goods is up strongly
According to preliminary estimates, the production of sports goods in Russia jumped by 48 percent in the first half of 2018, as compared to the same period of the previous year, said Oleg Ostroukhov, chairman of the Association of Russia's Sports Industry Enterprises of Russia, when talking to our correspondent ...
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New leadership for Intersport Germany
A management consultant, Alexander von Preen, is taking over the position of chief executive at Intersport Germany, the biggest voluntary group in the Intersport galaxy, with retail members running some 900 stores in the country. He is taking the place of Kim Roether, who resigned in June, citing personal reasons ...
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Stefan Herzog, a well-known name in German sports retailing, has...
Stefan Herzog, a well-known name in German sports retailing, has assumed the newly created position of secretary general of VDS, the German sporting goods retailers' association chaired by Werner Haizmann. Much like the appointment in February 2016 of Michael Nendwich as general manager of VSSÖ, the Austrian counterpart of VDS, ...
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Uniqlo will be opening its first Italian store in Milan...
Uniqlo will be opening its first Italian store in Milan in April 2019. The store will be located in Piazza Cordusio, just a few steps from Milan's Duomo, and will reportedly have a sales area of around 2,500 square meters on three floors. The Japanese brand, better known for its ...
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JD Sports Fashion is raising the surface of its store...
JD Sports Fashion is raising the surface of its store in the Bluewater shopping mall near London from 9,544 to 18,966 square feet. Digitalization is the big buzzword in retailing right now, but as Fashionmagazine.com has noted, Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the U.K.-based retail group, made an interesting statement ...
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Hestra has opened a new factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam....
Hestra has opened a new factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam. The factory will complement the manufacturing units already operated by the Swedish sports glove manufacturer in Hungary and China. The new Vietnamese factory is meant to respond to a high volume of orders. The company has invested 32 million Swedish ...
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Nike and the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry...
Nike and the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) partnered with Sport and Citizenship to organize a conference near Brussels on “Shaping a New Active Generation. “ Representatives of Adidas, Foot Locker, Play International and other institutions adopted a “Brussels Active Kids” statement that aims to stimulate action ...
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Dynafit has opened a store in Seoul through its local...
Dynafit has opened a store in Seoul through its local distributor, K2 (unrelated to the American brand by the same name)
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Fischer is no longer going to distribute Swix' products in...
Fischer is no longer going to distribute Swix' products in Russia, where it is particularly strong, after the upcoming winter season. The decision follows Fischer's recent acquisition of One Way Sport, the Finnish producer of ski poles. The Swix Sport Group will set up its own subsidiary in Russia, ODO ...
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Tina Rolén, former marketing director at Haglöfs, has joined VF...
Tina Rolén, former marketing director at Haglöfs, has joined VF Corp. to take the marketing lead at Vans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Rolén has spent many years in the sports, outdoor and fashion industry, working with brands from Nike and Adidas to Mini Rodini and Haglöfs. ...
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Nike thrives on digital and marketing investments
Abundant investments in digital capacity and marketing have helped Nike to outperform its own projections for the three months to the end of August, with wide-ranging increases in sales and profits.The Nike group raised its quarterly profit by 15 percent to $1,092 million on a sales jump of 10 percent ...
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Marsure Sports has decided to stop the distribution of the...
Marsure Sports has decided to stop the distribution of the Varlion brand of paddle tennis racquets in Spain and the rest of Europe. The brand was acquired by a group of Swiss investors two years ago.
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Decathlon moves into Korea and other new markets
A few days ago, the French retail giant opened its first store in South Korea. Before the end of the year, Decathlon will also open its first full-fledged stores in Greece and Sri Lanka. The Ukraine will follow next spring, and there are unconfirmed reports that it is planning to ...
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New data on inactivity worldwide
A recent study led by researchers from the World Health Organisation (WHO), published in the scientific journal The Lancet, suggests that policies to increase physical activity on a global scale need to be made a priority and scaled up urgently. According to the study, which looked at inactivity trends among ...
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Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to...
Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to set up a new trade fair targeting the cycling business in South East Asia. Aseanbike powered by Eurobike will be held for the first time next year, over three days starting on Oct. 3, at the Impact Exhibition and Convention ...
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The Rossignol Group is taking full control of the distribution...
The Rossignol Group is taking full control of the distribution of its winter sports brands in Denmark, compensating the two wholesale distributors for the work that they have put into building up its brands in the country. One of them, Playground, was responsible for the Rossignol brand. The other one, ...
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Macron has signed an important six-year contract with the recently...
Macron has signed an important six-year contract with the recently formed Canadian Premier League (CPL), which is going to start organizing the first professional football matches in the country next spring. The Italian company will supply all the shirts for each of the seven teams that will participate in ...
