Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 227
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The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote...
The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote Pro Touch, its exclusive label for team sports. The cooperative invites its customers to design their own individual shirts at protouch.de. After various offers over the past two years, Intersport has developed a tool that lets its affiliated members in ...
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The German Sport 2000 is launching a social media network...
The German Sport 2000 is launching a social media network called runvitation.de, which addresses the running community. The site offers maps to plan running trails and – in connection with Facebook – to share them with “running mates” and to organize joint activities. What is more, the affiliated retailers are ...
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The first JD store in Spain has opened in the...
The first JD store in Spain has opened in the new Serrallo Plaza shopping center of Granada. It is the first concrete result of the strategic alliance formed by JD Sports Fashion last June with Sprinter, the sporting goods retail chain of Estudio 2000 in which it acquired a 50.1 ...
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J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this...
J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this spring, and it is looking for other locations in other key German cities. The Swedish brand, which reportedly made a turnover equivalent to around €40 million last year, already has 30 stores around the world, including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kitzbühel, New ...
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Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in...
Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in June at Claye Souilly
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Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store...
Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store in the Italian sea resort of Forte dei Marmi and is readying to add three other stores, all on the island of Sardinia
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After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations...
After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations for mono-brand stores in Italy
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Sportler, the big northern Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired...
Sportler, the big northern Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired bergzeit.de, a German-based online outdoor retailer that also runs two brick-and-mortar stores in Bavaria. Apparently, Sportler, run by Georg Oberrauch, the brother of Heiner Oberrauch, who runs the Salewa/Oberalp group, wants to expand its small online business through this acquisition. ...
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After 10 years of operations in the Czech Republic, Gigasport,...
After 10 years of operations in the Czech Republic, Gigasport, the Austrian sporting goods chain under the helm of Kastner & Öhler, has decided to pull out of the country. Sportfachandel, the German trade publication, reports that Gigasport sensed an ongoing negative evolution of the market, partly fueled by the ...
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Sports Experts, the price-driven retail chain of Sport Eybl &...
Sports Experts, the price-driven retail chain of Sport Eybl & Sports Experts, the single largest Austrian sports retailer, has opened its second German outlet in the town of Erding, which is known for its beer and is located outside Munich. The new store has a selling surface of 2,200 square ...
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Chervò is opening its first off-course flagship store on March...
Chervò is opening its first off-course flagship store on March 30. Featuring an innovative design developed by Umdasch to reflect the Italian golf brand's chic-tech spirit, the 180-square-meter structure will be located next to the company's head office at Costermano, north of Verona. It will take the place of a ...
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Lacoste has inaugurated its first women-specific retail store. With a...
Lacoste has inaugurated its first women-specific retail store. With a space of 90 square meters, it is located in Paris' Galerie Passy Plaza. Meanwhile, the French brand is gearing up for the opening in May of a flagship store on Brompton Road, in the western part of London, that will ...
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Intersport Italia announces a new franchised Intersport store in a...
Intersport Italia announces a new franchised Intersport store in a shopping mall of Chieti, La Colonnetta
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The Italian Sport Alliance buying group has launched a web...
The Italian Sport Alliance buying group has launched a web shop for GetFit, its private brand of home fitness equipment
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Volcom opens its third store in the U.K. at Boxpark,...
Volcom opens its third store in the U.K. at Boxpark, in the Shoreditch district of London
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James Gilbert South Africa is expanding its licensing and distribution...
James Gilbert South Africa is expanding its licensing and distribution agreement with Everlast to comprise all apparel, footwear and equipment sold under the brand in South Africa
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Karstadt is planning to open two more sports stores this...
Karstadt is planning to open two more sports stores this year, after its recent new opening in Wiesbaden, and to add eight to ten new ones in the next three to four years, according to TextilWirtschaft. The well-informed German magazine also indicates that Karstadt Sports' 27 existing stores saw their ...
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Macron has opened two new stores in Rimini and Helsinki,...
Macron has opened two new stores in Rimini and Helsinki, and it is preparing further openings at Alkmaar, in the Netherlands, and at Wrexham, in the U.K.
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Nike Golf is taking over the distribution in Spain from...
Nike Golf is taking over the distribution in Spain from Norgolfe, a Portuguese company that managed to build up its presence throughout the Iberian Peninsula in the last years. It started in Portugal in 2002 and added the southern part of Spain in 2004. Norgolfe will continue to handle distribution ...
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WeSC is taking over the distribution of its products in...
WeSC is taking over the distribution of its products in the U.K. from Lateral Corp.
