Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 217
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Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape...
Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape caused by Sport Eybl & Sports Experts' crisis, one of its competitors, Hervis Sports, has announced ambitious plans for expansion inside and outside Austria. The chain, a subsidiary of the Spar food chain, plans to open 10 new doors in ...
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Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18,...
Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18, adding an additional retail channel for its affiliated retailers. The store at http://www.intersport.de went formally live with Kim Roether and Klaus Jost, the group's joint managing directors, pushing the button and ordering outdoor jackets for themselves. The group has been working ...
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Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel, has launched a new retail format called Runners Point World of Running. It has been implemented in a new flagship store of 500 square meters opened this week in the Thier Galerie, a shopping mall in Dortmund. Described as Europe's ...
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Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50...
Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50 running specialty stores that it wants to have in Mainland China by the end of 2015. They are expected to contribute annual revenues of 1.5 billion yen (€188.1m-$241.3m). Located in Shanghai, the first such store features running stations for training ...
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Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese...
Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese real estate company, China Vanke, to help develop its presence in second- and third-tier cities in the country. The French retailer already has 57 stores in China, and they are mostly located in the larger urban areas, measuring between 4,000 ...
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Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the...
Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the Middle East, measuring 250 m², on Kish Island in Iran
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Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first...
Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first German concept shop on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm
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The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has...
The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has received a prize because of its contribution to the renovation of the retail community in the city's ancient Barrio Gótico
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The German-based company Schanner has taken on the distribution of...
The German-based company Schanner has taken on the distribution of Head skates for Germany, Austria and Italy. In charge of sales is Marc Meier, who is both owner and managing director of Schanner, a company specializing in ice hockey. It distributes Bauer in the same countries and will sell ice ...
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Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the...
Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the end of last year, according to sport-guide.com. It is located in a recently renovated shopping center at Claye Souilly, anchored by Carrefour, that also accommodates one of the ten JD stores in France. Foot Locker had only 83 stores in ...
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The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been...
The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been faring well financially, has approved a $220 million investment program for the current year. That is far more than the $163 million spent last year. The money will be invested in various fields of expansion such as the development and roll-out of ...
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Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the...
Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the next three years, in view of the difficult economic situation in the country, but the company declines to comment. According to another report in CMD, Spanish sporting goods retailers suffered the biggest sales decline in 15 years last year, but some ...
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Peak Performance adds to international distribution
Peak Performance, the Swedish ski, outdoor and golf brand, has inked a deal with Vermont Holding in the Czech Republic, covering distribution in that country along with Slovakia and Hungary. Vermont already has an agreement to sell Gant in the same countries, where it has opened 58 stores for that ...
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Sportzun, the former Spanish-based distributor of O'Neill in Spain and...
Sportzun, the former Spanish-based distributor of O'Neill in Spain and Italy, is reported to have filed for voluntary bankruptcy proceedings
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Snowgoose has become the distributor of Trespass in the Netherlands....
Snowgoose has become the distributor of Trespass in the Netherlands. The company, headed by Marcel Koomen, is strongly established in the outdoor and ski markets as the former Dutch distributor of Haglöfs, La Sportiva and Dale of Norway, among others. Snowgoose temporarily halted its activities two years ago, when Haglöfs ...
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Technolyt in the Netherlands has become the distributor of Original...
Technolyt in the Netherlands has become the distributor of Original Buff for the Benelux countries. The Dutch company already sells several brands of outdoor accessories, including Nathan, Timex, Sea to Summit, Bynolyt and Zeiss. The Spanish brand was previously distributed in both the Netherlands and Belgium by R.A. Company, which ...
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Colmar has a new distributor in France. The products of...
Colmar has a new distributor in France. The products of the Italian brand, including its skiwear, streetwear, golfwear and beachwear, will now be distributed by Sunset Sport, which is already the distributor for France of such brands as Elan, Uvex, Swix and Montana. Sunset Sport is to replace the Shiele ...
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The Sonae Group is placing Berg Outdoor, the private label of its...
The Sonae Group is placing Berg Outdoor, the private label of its Sportzone chain of sporting goods stores, at the disposal of other retailers and distributors worldwide. Since one year ago, it has been making it available to other retailers in Portugal and Spain. Berg exhibited at the Ispo Munich fair earlier this month for the ...
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Schoenenreus, a Dutch discount retailer that sells predominantly sports footwear,...
Schoenenreus, a Dutch discount retailer that sells predominantly sports footwear, was declared bankrupt last month but its business was immediately restarted in a slimmed-down version. The company said that its owners, Synergia, Eric Companjen and Paul Schouwenaar, agreed to invest in the company for the next two years. The deal ...
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Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012...
Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012 retail sales, which we reported in December on a preliminary basis. In the end, the affiliated retailers increased their sales by 2.2 percent to €2.76 billion after VAT. According to Klaus Jost, joint president of the group, the last two ...
