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Sportalm has opened its second store in Prague
Sportalm has opened its second store in Prague
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Oakley plans to have 210 mono-brand stores in place worldwide...
Oakley plans to have 210 mono-brand stores in place worldwide by the end of this year
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Haglöfs is opening a 130-square-meter outlet store in the Ringsted...
Haglöfs is opening a 130-square-meter outlet store in the Ringsted Outlet southwest of Copenhagen, selling closeouts from previous seasons
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Intersport is partnering with The North Face for its first...
Intersport is partnering with The North Face for its first pan-European campaign in the outdoor category, as it has already done with Adidas and Nike in football, Reebok in fitness and Asics in running. A co-branded “More Jacket. More Adventure” campaign is being rolled out across 14 countries this autumn ...
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El Corte Inglés is launching an online store in English...
El Corte Inglés is launching an online store in English to sell a variety of private label items, including sports products. The goal of the Spanish retailer is to position itself as a leading supplier for tourists visiting Spain. According to a Spanish online information portal, Modaes, it is targeting ...
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New Balance has opened a new global experience retail store...
New Balance has opened a new global experience retail store in Barcelona, in line with the firm's push to expand its global retail presence. The new outlet, which measures a total of 375 square meters, is located in the high-end Rambla De Catalunya area. The store's internal design has been ...
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Marmot has opened its first single-brand franchised store in the...
Marmot has opened its first single-brand franchised store in the U.K. in partnership with Adventure Peaks, a British outdoor retailer and expedition company. Located in Ambleside in the Lake District National Park, the store has a selling surface of 180 square meters (more in The Outdoor Industry Compass).
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Blue Tomato, the big Austrian action sports retailer acquired by...
Blue Tomato, the big Austrian action sports retailer acquired by Zumiez last year, has opened its first door in the Tyrol on a selling surface of 520 square meters, in the state capital of Innsbruck. It is, alongside Blue Tomato's mail-order service, the company's fifth point of sale in Austria ...
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Décathlon is preparing to open a second Swedish store in...
Décathlon is preparing to open a second Swedish store in the Kungens Kurva shopping mall in the south-west of Stockholm
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Twinner France has signed an agreement with ABN AMRO Commercial...
Twinner France has signed an agreement with ABN AMRO Commercial Finance that will allow all the affiliated French retailers in the Twinner and Pro du Sport to benefit from centralized settlements and invoicing for their 550 shops. Twinner France had broken one year ago a similar agreement with Garant Schuh, ...
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As of last month, 42 retailers had adopted the new...
As of last month, 42 retailers had adopted the new SportXtreme concept proposed by the GMS buying group at the beginning of this year. Thirteen have signed contracts with GMS in Germany, eight in Austria and 21 in the Netherlands. One Dutch store has already been renovated based on the ...
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Mango has unveiled a collection of T-shirts, softshells and other...
Mango has unveiled a collection of T-shirts, softshells and other sports clothing, called Mango Sport. It is featured in 155 of its stores in 25 countries, and reportedly it should become a permanent feature of its shops. The launch follows a similar initiative by H&M, which is said to be ...
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Karstadt will set up 50 Timberland shop-in-shops of up to...
Karstadt will set up 50 Timberland shop-in-shops of up to 40 square meters in its department stores throughout Germany, offering either shoes or clothing or both. The first such area has already opened in Karstadt's store in Essen, where the retailer has its head office. Another one is due to ...
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The Adidas Group has picked the town of Leeds to...
The Adidas Group has picked the town of Leeds to open a regional flagship Adidas store with a wide assortment of sports and fashion ranges. The outlet of just over 600 square meters opened at the Trinity shopping center in August is the first English one outside London to feature ...
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Lacoste, the French sportswear brand, has opened an online store...
Lacoste, the French sportswear brand, has opened an online store in China. It reportedly offers 800 products in apparel, footwear and accessories. The number is still far below the more than 2,000 products available at online stores in the larger European countries. Lacoste is represented in China with six stores ...
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Golfsmith International is partnering with Golfzon, a publicly listed golf...
Golfsmith International is partnering with Golfzon, a publicly listed golf simulation company in South Korea, to open a chain of stores in and around Seoul over the next five years. The first one should emerge before the end of 2013. Golfzon is expanding into golf course management and related industries. ...
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Helly Hansen has inaugurated its first store in Barcelona, the...
Helly Hansen has inaugurated its first store in Barcelona, the fourth one in Spain
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Nike is opening a store of 550 square meters in...
Nike is opening a store of 550 square meters in the Berlin Mitte district and two more are said to be planned in the German capital, in the new shopping district at Leipziger Platz and in the Europa-Center at Breitscheidplatz
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New Balance has opened its second corporate Spanish store in...
New Balance has opened its second corporate Spanish store in Barcelona
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X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base...
X-Technology, the marketer of the X-Bionic brand of functional base layers and X-Socks, has opened its first single branded store in Germany. The shop is located in Hofstatt-Passage, a shopping mall in downtown Munich, and has a selling surface of 40 square meters. The store is operated by Tre Vertriebs ...
