Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 226
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Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom...
Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom of the high-traffic Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The 130-square-meter store is described as an intermediary stage toward a new retail concept that will be presented in mid-2013. A subsidiary of the Swiss Maus Frères group, Aigle already has about ...
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Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South...
Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South Korean capital of Seoul. As part of its global strategy, the company is placing a larger focus on the Asian market. Its Asian expansion began about two years ago when the brand was first launched in Japan. Now, as the ...
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The first negative winter sales results in years have caused...
The first negative winter sales results in years have caused an increase in bankruptcies among Norwegian sporting goods retailers. A drop in sales of about 10 percent in the last quarter of 2011 was the last straw for many sport retailers across the country. In the last three and a ...
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New Spanish distributor for Li Ning!: Jorcani
Li Ning, the Chinese sports brand, has changed its distributor in Spain, switching from LN Plus in Madrid to Jorcani in Barcelona. Spain is one of the European markets where Li Ning has invested most prominently in the last years, obtaining endorsement deals from the country's national basketball team as ...
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Burton Snowboards has sold DNA Distribution, a company that supplies...
Burton Snowboards has sold DNA Distribution, a company that supplies skateboards and accessories under the Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex brand names, to Rob Dyrdek, an American television star and entrepreneur. Now a wealthy individual, he has been skateboarding for 20 years and had been originally sponsored by that company. ...
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JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had...
JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had approved each of the resolutions put forward at an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday. They focused on the strategic deal announced earlier this month, which could see Dick's Sporting Goods acquiring a majority stake in the British sports retailer. The ...
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ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport...
ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport 2000's licensee for Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, wants to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Garant Schuh + Mode, another buying group for shoe retailers. Additionally, Garant has sporting goods retail members under the Fair Play banner, mainly in the ...
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Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...
Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...
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Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain...
Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain in the coming months. The stores in Barcelona and Madrid will both include the latest Running Lab, which boasts the highest level of biomechanical analysis. Another high-tech attraction is the Asics Foot ID service, developed by the Asics Institute of ...
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Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian...
Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian sporting goods chain, firmly denied rumors about the potential sale of the company. He said that any speculations on a sale by its owner, Spar Österr. Warenhandels-AG, was bare of any foundation. Hervis is a successful part of Spar Österr. ...
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Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be...
Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be the first factory outlet for its retail members within the Sport 2000 International network. With its 2,500 square meters on Vienna's Brünner Strasse, it is also the biggest one for sports products in Austria. The store is offering more than ...
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The second Asics store in London, due to open this...
The second Asics store in London, due to open this summer at 527 Oxford Street, will feature new state-of-the-art technologies and facilities. Besides the full range of its running products, the store will also offer a selection of Asics products from the rugby, tennis, cricket, hockey and netball categories on ...
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Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its...
Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its Fire & Ice brand of young sports fashion under the domain fire-and-ice.com. At the same time, the company has opened its first corporate Fire & Ice store at Tinnum, on the German island of Sylt, with a surface of 150 ...
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Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the...
Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the help of a Swiss agency, Studioworks, to make it as modular and versatile as possible, with a minimum of elements. It uses wood generated along sustainable development guidelines and assembled without glue. The first module was recently installed on 60 ...
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Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...
Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...
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Infiniti Golf has picked Golfsmith Europe to be the distributor...
Infiniti Golf has picked Golfsmith Europe to be the distributor of its irons, drivers and wedges throughout the U.K. and the rest of Europe. Golfsmith will have the exclusive rights to sell Infiniti's clubs online and through its retailers.
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Brander Sports, distributor for Spyder in Sweden, has now signed...
Brander Sports, distributor for Spyder in Sweden, has now signed agreements with Dainese, Ziener and Rocky Mountain Underground. Brander Sports is a relatively new company, headed by Robin Brander, for the representation of companies that produce high quality, technical products. Rocky Mountain Underground is a relatively new American ski brand ...
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Brown Couch has become the new distributor of Spy Optics...
Brown Couch has become the new distributor of Spy Optics in Sweden (more on this company and on Spy in EyeWear Intelligence)
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Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit...
Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit (“time for the mountains”), a German online retailer trading under bergzeit.de plus two brick-and-mortar stores in southern Germany. The transaction adds an annual turnover of more than €10 million, which is above Sportler's own internet sales. Sportler has been ...
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Foot Locker ended its latest financial year with 563 stores...
Foot Locker ended its latest financial year with 563 stores in Europe, although its total store count declined by 1.7 percent to 3,369 units. Outside the U.S., the group also had 129 stores in Canada and 91 in Australia and New Zealand. In other 10-K notes, Foot Locker purchased 82 ...
