Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 131
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Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, the new holding company formed last year...
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, the new holding company formed last year from the merger of the Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt department stores, aims to cooperate more closely with Amazon and Zalando in the future. Galeria Kaufhof has already been cooperating with Amazon since 2017. A new service will be launched in ...
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Europêche and Concept Pro Pêche, while maintaining their independence, have...
Europêche and Concept Pro Pêche, while maintaining their independence, have signed a cooperation agreement to increase their bargaining and purchasing power. The two French fishing-tackle retail chains, which have 195 stores between them, have announced in a letter to suppliers that they are pooling their resources and founding an Economic ...
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Decathlon will open its first pop-up store for second-hand products...
Decathlon will open its first pop-up store for second-hand products in Germany in June, covering 200 square meters next to its existing store in Magdeburg. The store will be tested in a pilot phase for three months to see whether customers accept the new store concept. The second-hand products that ...
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Decathlon has announced that it will join the new Cycling...
Decathlon has announced that it will join the new Cycling Market Data Service, launched by the Bicycle Association of Great Britain in January. The service, which is meant to provide the industry with detailed and up-to-date market data, is free for independent bike shops with a U.K. cycling turnover of ...
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Kobe Bryant has launched a new online store in China,...
Kobe Bryant has launched a new online store in China, the first outlet for Kobe Bryant-licensed products in the Chinese market. The flagship online store is called the “Kobe Official Enterprise Store” on Taobao and “Kobe Bryant 24” on WeChat. The products available through the store include mugs, sunglasses, sports ...
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Salomon has opened its first fully-fledged mono-brand store in Spain,...
Salomon has opened its first fully-fledged mono-brand store in Spain, which measures 206 square meters on two floors. It is located in the very central Calle Fuencarral of Madrid. A second store is due to be opened in Barcelona in June, again at in a central location: the Rambla de ...
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Intersport España is reportedly planning to finally enter the Portuguese...
Intersport España is reportedly planning to finally enter the Portuguese sports market, testing the waters initially with a web store
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The fourth Absolute Teamsport store affiliated with Sport 2000 Germany...
The fourth Absolute Teamsport store affiliated with Sport 2000 Germany has opened in Münster, carrying mainly products by Adidas, Derbystar, Hummel, Jako, Nike and Puma
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Adidas has opened a store in Paris' Boulevard Haussmann, its...
Adidas has opened a store in Paris' Boulevard Haussmann, its third in downtown Paris and its fifth in Paris metropolitan area
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Sports Direct has reportedly sold its flagship store in Dublin's...
Sports Direct has reportedly sold its flagship store in Dublin's North Earl Street, in the city center, for about £17.3 million (€20.3m-$22.7m)
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Adidas presents its first fully recyclable running shoe
Adidas has unveiled the new Futurecraft.Loop, a 100 percent recyclable performance running shoe that is meant to contribute to the global battle against plastic waste. The company has described the shoe as its “first running shoe that is made to be remade.” The Futurecraft.Loop is aimed at enabling a “closed ...
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Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both...
Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both managing directors of zLabels, will be leaving the company. zLabels, the e-tailer's nine-year-old private label division, was closed on April 1, although the company has indicated that it will continue to offer “everyday essential” clothing and footwear products under 11 ...
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The Authentic Brands Group has concluded a multi-year deal with...
The Authentic Brands Group has concluded a multi-year deal with Eleven After Eleven, a Chinese manufacturer of skateboarding apparel, for one of its 50-odd brands, Airwalk. The Chinese company will be designing, manufacturing and distributing Airwalk apparel, footwear and accessories in Greater China. There are also plans to establish some ...
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Odex, the European distributor of Aclima headquartered in Denmark, has...
Odex, the European distributor of Aclima headquartered in Denmark, has hired an industry expert, Günter Almberger, for the distribution of this Norwegian brand of wool clothing in Austria. Almberger, an Austrian native living in Southern Germany, is an industry veteran who has worked for Skylotec, Gecko Bergsport, Sport Scheck and ...
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Decathlon has opened its first physical stores in Japan, after...
Decathlon has opened its first physical stores in Japan, after testing the market online. The Japanese store covers about 1,800 square meters in the Hanku Nishinomiya Gardens, a shopping mall between the cities of Osaka and Kobe.
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In 2015, Ochsner Sport, the leading Swiss sports retailer that...
In 2015, Ochsner Sport, the leading Swiss sports retailer that is part of the Deichmann Group, opened its first branch in Germany in Neu-Ulm. Two other German locations in Hamburg and Ludwigsburg followed. Then, in 2016, the company acquired a German sporting goods retail chain of 13 stores located for ...
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Employees demonstrated for higher wages at several stores of the...
Employees demonstrated for higher wages at several stores of the German Karstadt Sports retail chain on Wednesday, April 16. By organizing a nationwide warning strike, their labor union, Verdi, wants to increase the pressure on Karstadt in the negotiations over their salaries. In 2013, Karstadt withdrew from collective pay agreements. ...
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Forum Sport closed out 2018 with its sixth consecutive year...
Forum Sport closed out 2018 with its sixth consecutive year of growth and record revenues of €152 million, up by 5.3 percent from the previous year. Last year, in addition to opening five new stores under the Dooers banner – its brand of sneaker stores – the Spanish sports retailer ...
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Sportmaster plans to open a flagship store of 1,540 square...
Sportmaster plans to open a flagship store of 1,540 square meters in the big Grozny Mall in the city of Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic. It will be one of the Russian sporting goods retailer's biggest stores and one of the biggest ones in the Caucasus region. The ...
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Polartec has launched its Ready to Roll program, offering premium...
Polartec has launched its Ready to Roll program, offering premium Polartec fabrics in stock and ready to ship. The program is meant to meet customers' demand for in-stock inventory without the standard production lead times. The announcement of the program will enable rapid order fulfilment in time for autumn/winter 2019 ...
