Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 214
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Kurt Schild is the new Austrian agent for Seafolly, replacing...
Kurt Schild is the new Austrian agent for Seafolly, replacing Belinda Ömmer
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Peak Sports, the Chinese sports brand, has inaugurated its own...
Peak Sports, the Chinese sports brand, has inaugurated its own showroom in Madrid
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Goode Sport has become the exclusive distributor of Völkl Tennis...
Goode Sport has become the exclusive distributor of Völkl Tennis in the U.K. and Ireland
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Feeling Store has taken on the distribution of Hummel in...
Feeling Store has taken on the distribution of Hummel in Spain and Portugal
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The 15 retail members of Full Equip Grup have agreed...
The 15 retail members of Full Equip Grup have agreed to join Twinner Iberia, consolidating its position as the third-largest national buying group in the Spanish sporting goods sector. Full Equip's members have 23 shops in the Balearic Islands which generate annual sales of €4.2 million. They are generally small. ...
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Forum Sport continues to expand outside the Basque region of...
Forum Sport continues to expand outside the Basque region of Spain by opening its second store in the region of Cantabria and the first one in Santander. Located in the El Alisal shopping center, it measures 2,100 square meters. With this opening, the Spanish chain, which is owned by Eroski, ...
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Billabong has renovated three corporate stores in France and opened...
Billabong has renovated three corporate stores in France and opened a new concept store on a franchised basis at Biscarrosse, a sea resort south of Bordeaux. The brand currently owns five stores in France and six more in other parts of Europe. It also has 15 franchised stores and 25 ...
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D&K Distribution, which took over Conte of Florence last year,...
D&K Distribution, which took over Conte of Florence last year, plans to open a total of seven stores in Italy. The expansion plans also extend to foreign countries, according to a report, with Prague coming first in September, followed by locations in Spain and France. The store opening program will ...
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Sports Direct and Tesco, the U.K.'s largest supermarket chain and...
Sports Direct and Tesco, the U.K.'s largest supermarket chain and the world's third largest, are reportedly in advanced talks over sharing space at some of the grocer's biggest stores. According to a report in the Financial Times, the sports retailer could take on the mezzanine floors in three of Tesco's ...
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+++Seafolly has opened a shop in the Breuninger department store...
+++Seafolly has opened a shop in the Breuninger department store in Stuttgart
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Rick de Meijer, who spent the last 12 years with Tenson...
Rick de Meijer, who spent the last 12 years with Tenson in the Netherlands, has established his own agency to sell Chiemsee, the German action sports brands. The new agency, Global Trademarks, will also offer a lifestyle-oriented range of underwear by Bawbags, a Scottish brand. De Meijer, who has a permanent ...
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Vic Sports has taken on the Spanish distribution of Carver...
Vic Sports has taken on the Spanish distribution of Carver Skateboards from California
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XXL Sport og Villmark, the large Norwegian sporting goods retailer,...
XXL Sport og Villmark, the large Norwegian sporting goods retailer, continues to focus investments on the Swedish market. This spring, the tenth Swedish XXL store opened in the city of Jönköping, but the expansion will not stop there. By the autumn of 2013, three more stores are set to open ...
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Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium,...
Herman van Beveren, the general manager of Décathlon in Belgium, told reporters earlier this month that the French retailer intends to double its number of Belgian stores to 30 in the next five years. As reported by Sport Partner, there are currently 15 Décathlon stores in Belgium but two more ...
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Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores...
Décathlon is changing the name of its discount-oriented Koodza stores to Décathlon Simply, according to Sport-Guide.com. The parent company, Oxylane, has sharply reduced the number of Koodza stores in France in the last two years.
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Asics is launching its first European online store in the...
Asics is launching its first European online store in the U.K. in September 2013. It already launched its virtual store in the U.S. at the end of April, followed by one in Japan. The U.K. was chosen for the European launch because of its high internet penetration in retailing and ...
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Prince is opening a store in Wimbledon, London, in connection...
Prince is opening a store in Wimbledon, London, in connection with the annual tennis tournament in this historic site. A private VIP and media event will mark the opening this coming weekend in the presence of Nick Bollettieri and some top tennis players sponsored by Prince. The store will carry ...
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New Era is opening its second corporate store in Germany...
New Era is opening its second corporate store in Germany and the fifth in Europe in Frankfurt on Aug. 1. Located in MyZeil, a prestigious shopping mall in downtown Frankfurt, it will have a sales surface of 250 square meters and will feature a completely new concept, setting a model ...
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Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship...
Lolë, the wellness brand of Coalision, has opened a flagship store in Biarritz on the Basque coast of France, almost simultaneously with the inauguration of its 7th European store not far away at Saint-Jean-de-Luz. According to Fashionmag.fr, the brand is planning to open shop in the French ski resort of ...
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GPG, the French agency of Patrick Genestier, has become the...
GPG, the French agency of Patrick Genestier, has become the general agent of Diadora in France for all its product categories excluding football, where the Italian brand will continue to work directly with key accounts such as Intersport. For other products, such as its active lifestyle range, Diadora had been ...
