Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 224
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Myrco Sport will distribute the helmets and accessories of the...
Myrco Sport will distribute the helmets and accessories of the German brand Cratoni in the Spanish market, after Vitalnutritech said that it would quit representing the brand in Spain due to “misunderstandings with the current management.”
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Brander Sports has expanded its product portfolio by becoming the...
Brander Sports has expanded its product portfolio by becoming the distributor of Uvex products in Sweden. The Gothenburg-based company currently has a number of similar brands in its portfolio including Spyder, Dainese and Ziener.
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Saucony elected its Spanish distributor, Deerfoot Sport, as its best...
Saucony elected its Spanish distributor, Deerfoot Sport, as its best in the world at the company's recent international sales meeting in Boston. Deerfoot's sales of the brand in Spain have been growing by 20 percent a year lately. Raidlight and Zoggs are among the other brands represented by Deerfoot in ...
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Intersport Sweden is launching a new online business to complement...
Intersport Sweden is launching a new online business to complement its store network. This is meant to increase the number of products available for consumers, and to improve customer service. Anders Dahlberg, former interactive concept manager for Lindex, has been recruited to supervise the development of the platform. The new ...
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Haglöfs will open a brand store in Oslo this fall,...
Haglöfs will open a brand store in Oslo this fall, and another will open in Tokyo shortly thereafter. Haglöfs' first ever brand store opened in Stockholm last year, so that the new locations will bring the total number of Haglöfs brand stores to three. Expectations are that the ...
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Reportedly, Cushman & Wakefield has received a mandate from JD...
Reportedly, Cushman & Wakefield has received a mandate from JD Sports Fashion to open 15 new JD stores in France each year. The sixth JD store in the country is set to open shortly in the O'Parinor shopping mall of Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris, and others are planned in and around ...
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Regatta has opened its first Spanish store through a retail...
Regatta has opened its first Spanish store through a retail partner in Gijón, Deportes Asturias, featuring also its Dare2b brand
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This summer, Houdini Sportswear is opening its first concept store...
This summer, Houdini Sportswear is opening its first concept store in the same shopping district of Stockhom where Quiksilver, Norrøna, The North Face, Salomon and Hestra have their own stores
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Golfino is opening its first Scottish store on 100 square...
Golfino is opening its first Scottish store on 100 square meters in the downtown area of Edinburgh. It is the brand's 39th store
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Garmont is going to be the distributor of Movement skis...
Garmont is going to be the distributor of Movement skis in the U.S. and Canada
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Décathlon is adjusting its retail concept in the German market...
Décathlon is adjusting its retail concept in the German market with a new store to be opened next year in Mannheim. Contrary to its usual approach, the French chain will open the store in the city's downtown area, not too far from Engelhorn Sports, the local retail hero, which has ...
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Intersport Voswinkel, the retail chain controlled by Intersport Germany, has...
Intersport Voswinkel, the retail chain controlled by Intersport Germany, has acquired a 32,000-square-meter surface in the city of Bochum. The chain will establish its central warehouse there and will use an existing hall with a surface of 12,000 square meters. Currently, Voswinkel operates 62 doors in the country.
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Helge Hinrichs and Stefan Moosleitner, two entrepreneurs from Hamburg, have...
Helge Hinrichs and Stefan Moosleitner, two entrepreneurs from Hamburg, have launched a new retailing platform on the internet called Sportrade. The service is currently focused on athletic sports, but shall be extended to outdoor and fitness in the near future. In the first place, Sportrade addresses both retailers and consumers ...
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Sprinter, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain partly owned by...
Sprinter, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has launched its own virtual store, selling branded as well as exclusive products. Customers are entitled to a 20 percent discount on any orders placed on the web until June 17.
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Following in the footsteps of Zalando, Spartoo, one of the...
Following in the footsteps of Zalando, Spartoo, one of the major pure e-commerce players for footwear in France, has launched a dedicated page for sports shoes on its website. It features some 900 styles by 35 brands including Adidas, Nike and Reebok. Categories covered include running, trail-running, football, fitness, golf, ...
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Adidas will not renew the lease on its 1,100-m2 flagship...
Adidas will not renew the lease on its 1,100-m2 flagship Paris store on Rue de Rivoli. The store, which opened in 2001, stopped making money in 2009, following the closure of a big neighboring department store, La Samaritaine, which reduced the levels of consumer traffic in the area. They have ...
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Preparations are in full swing for the Olympic Games at...
Preparations are in full swing for the Olympic Games at Lacoste, which is opening a flagship store of about 700 square meters on Brompton Road in London. Replacing a much smaller store on the same street, this will be the French brand's largest outlet – nearly twice the size of ...
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Intersport Italia is celebrating the opening of yet another franchised...
Intersport Italia is celebrating the opening of yet another franchised store at Sassuolo
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Vans has taken over the distribution of its products in...
Vans has taken over the distribution of its products in Sweden and Denmark, starting with the autumn/winter 2012 collections. Vans' parent company, VF Corporation, is opening subsidiaries in both countries, with their own showrooms and their own sales and marketing staffs, independently of other operations of the group in the region. ...
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Patagonia has signed up a new distributor in Poland,...
Patagonia has signed up a new distributor in Poland, Raven Outdoor, in a deal arranged by Michael Plank's Sports-Contacts agency. Based in Krakow and founded seven years ago, Raven Outdoor has launched international brands such as Smartwool and Black Diamond on the Polish market. Andrea Tomasini, who has been heading ...
