Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 215
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Zopfi Sustainable Business Development, the new Dutch company recently founded...
Zopfi Sustainable Business Development, the new Dutch company recently founded by John and Rob Zopfi, is going to introduce Houdini in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. As reported, John Zopfi build up Patagonia's sales in northern Europe and then acted as sales director of ...
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Reydon Sports, a big British wholesaler, has agreed to distribute...
Reydon Sports, a big British wholesaler, has agreed to distribute Li-Ning's products in the U.K. and Ireland. The Chinese brand is now featured in Reydon's latest product catalog, which has just come out with a new look. Reydon guarantees shipment of all the products in the catalog within 48 hours ...
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SportScheck, Germany's leading specialty sporting goods chain, is joining an...
SportScheck, Germany's leading specialty sporting goods chain, is joining an charity initiative called Tag des Aufrundens (“Day of rounding Up”). The retailer and other participants in the campaign encourage their customers to round up the total of their purchases at the cashier by up to ten cents of a euro. ...
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Quiksilver has inaugurated its first store in Myanmar, the former...
Quiksilver has inaugurated its first store in Myanmar, the former Burma, which has recently opened up to the world after many years of isolation. The store was opened in partnership with Sein Wut Hmon Company Limited (SWH Asia) and is located in Kamayut Township, in the capital city of Rangoon, ...
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Peter Jørgensen, who runs a Danish distribution company, Sports Connection,...
Peter Jørgensen, who runs a Danish distribution company, Sports Connection, has been elected president of the Danish shoe industry association, which has changed its name from Danmarks Skoleverandør Forening to Skobranchen.dk. The association represents 40 suppliers, including Ecco. Sports Connection is currently the distributor of Skechers and other brands in ...
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A Danish distributor with an original name, The Good Karma...
A Danish distributor with an original name, The Good Karma Company, has expanded to Sweden, according to Sportfack. As a result, six new sports brands already sold in Denmark are now available on the Swedish market: Skora, Ashmei, Ultraspire, Klymit, Montbell and OMM. They are all known for their lightweight ...
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Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with...
Forum Sport, a big Spanish sporting goods retail chain with a strong position in the Basque region, has decided to join Sports Trade Marketing International (STMI) as a member of Twinner International. STMI is the European purchasing group created last year by the French-based Groupe Go Sport and Hervis Sport, ...
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Décathlon is opening its 19th German store in Neustadt on...
Décathlon is opening its 19th German store in Neustadt on a surface of 2,450 square meters. Fighting against the competition from established traditional German retailers, Décathlon opened four new stores in Germany last year including a downtown location in Essen's Rathausgalerie. Another downtown store is reportedly planned for Mannheim's former ...
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Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga...
Retail News is reporting that Lululemon, the fast-growing Canadian yoga and sports apparel brand, is preparing to move into the Dutch market. The specialized Dutch newspaper was told by Jessica Edwards, international community manager at Lululemon, that the company intended to open its first store in Amsterdam before the end ...
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In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second...
In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second factory outlet store in Insjøn, Sweden. It will have three different areas for Lundhags own products, external brands and an outlet section. The company's first store in Järpen, Sweden has turned into something of a destination store and the same ...
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At the end of May, Stormberg will open its second...
At the end of May, Stormberg will open its second store in Sweden, this time in the town of Norrköping. The new store comes only half a year after the Norwegian sportswear brand opened its first Swedish store in Malmö. In addition, Stormberg is strongly represented in all the Swedish ...
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Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year,...
Peak Performance, which went through wide-ranging management changes last year, saw its sales drop by 6 percent to 267.5 million Danish kroner (€35.9m-$46.3m) for the three months until the end of March. This is the third quarter in the fiscal year of IC Companys, the Danish company that owns the ...
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Lacoste has launched a click-and-collect service, allowing French customers to...
Lacoste has launched a click-and-collect service, allowing French customers to browse through the internet to check the availability of an item and to pick it up at one of its stores
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Vitalnutritech is the new distributor in Spain and Andorra for...
Vitalnutritech is the new distributor in Spain and Andorra for Bollé and Cébé, the two sports eyewear brands of Bushnell, for sale in specialty bike shops. Based in Barcelona, the company imports and distributes products for cycling, triathlon, fitness and swimming and offers them also on its website.
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Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop,...
Norway's Wenaas Sport og Fritid, a distributor of Diadora, Dunlop, Camelbak, Julbo and other sports brands, will take over the distribution of the football collection of Reusch in Sweden. The company already distributes the German brand's winter sports and football collections in Norway, and took on the distribution of its ...
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Joma is moving into the Argentinian market through a licensing...
Joma is moving into the Argentinian market through a licensing agreement with KA Argentina, a company that was previously the licensee for the Kappa and Robe di Kappa brands. According to the local press, the Argentinian company will invest $15 million into a new factory that will manufacture sports shoes ...
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Body Glove has signed a contract with a new distributor...
Body Glove has signed a contract with a new distributor for Peru, Wave Pool SAC, which started up in October 2010 as the operator of a surf arena, called La Ola Movistar, which is said to have the largest wave machine in the world
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Intersport's global network of sporting goods retailers is about to...
Intersport's global network of sporting goods retailers is about to move into its 43rd market, Morocco. With plans to open at least 12 stores with average surfaces of 300 to 400 square meters, Intersport International Corporation has granted a sub-license for the Moroccan market to Intersport Spain. The Spanish Intersport ...
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GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine...
GMS, a German buying group for shoe retailers formed nine years ago, has presented a new concept, SportXtreme, which addresses about 80 of its 1,000-odd retail members in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries that carry some sports brands in the stores. It is also targeting sporting goods retailers specializing ...
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+++ Two new franchised Intersport stores are being opened in...
+++ Two new franchised Intersport stores are being opened in Italy, one on the island of Ischia and one in Udine +++ Fire & Ice has opened a new store in Munich +++
