Latest Retail News & Analysis – Page 166
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Sportleader, one of the major sporting goods retailers in the...
Sportleader, one of the major sporting goods retailers in the Levante region of Spain, has decided to switch over to Intersport from another voluntary group, Base Detall Sport, that operates only in Spain. With its seven stores, it will raise the number of points of sale affiliated with Intersport España ...
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Oberalp, which recently got the distribution of Under Armour in...
Oberalp, which recently got the distribution of Under Armour in Italy, has opened its first brand store in the peninsula. It's located in the Orio shopping mall near Bergamo's airport, close to Foot Locker and many other sports stores. Under Armour has also taken advantage of the settlement of a ...
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Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K....
Converse is opening its first stand-alone store in the U.K. It will be an outlet store located in Wembley Park's London Designer Outlet center. Converse already has a corner in Nike's outlet in the same center. Vans and Dr. Martens are also coming to the center with their own outlet ...
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Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its...
Decathlon is reportedly negotiating the installation of one of its small-surface Decathlon City stores in a landmark building at 16 Calle Fuencarral, the famous shopping street in the center of Madrid. Decathlon already operates 12 Decathlon City stores in the Spanish capital and 15 regular, large Decathlon stores in the ...
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Decathlon is expanding its store at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin...
Decathlon is expanding its store at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin by increasing the sales surface from 6,000 to 8,500 sqm. New sports categories like rugby, fun wheels, tennis for kids and yoga for men, have been added to the existing product offer. The number of employees has been increased by ...
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Foot Locker is aiming for A1 locations in the major...
Foot Locker is aiming for A1 locations in the major European cities. It plans to open a new store measuring 550 square meters at Alexanderplatz, in the center of Berlin, next spring. According to sport-guide.com, the American banner is also negotiating a lease for a store of 1,500 sqm. on ...
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Banking on the athleisure trend, Supergroup has announced plans to...
Banking on the athleisure trend, Supergroup has announced plans to launch directly-owned or franchised stand-alone stores and shop-in-shops for its 18-month-old Superdry Sport range, in a move that is aimed at accelerating what it calls its “global lifestyle” strategy. The British sportswear brand is already sold in 60 countries. After ...
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After 20 years of glorious existence, Colette, the Paris boutique...
After 20 years of glorious existence, Colette, the Paris boutique that has been offering original products from many different sports and fashion brands, is going to close its doors on Dec. 20
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Targeting mainly young women with its sports fashion offerings, the...
Targeting mainly young women with its sports fashion offerings, the Printemps group has celebrated the long-awaited opening of a 1,664-square-meter Citadium store at 65, avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, next to Nike's store on the famous shopping street
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JD Sports Fashion plans to double the size of its...
JD Sports Fashion plans to double the size of its flagship store in Glasgow to nearly 13,000 square feet on two floors by November, using the new store design of its recently opened flagship in Newcastle
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Carhartt has announced plans to open a 2,500-square-foot store on...
Carhartt has announced plans to open a 2,500-square-foot store on London's King's Boulevard in September, not far from the Nike Central store that opened last August
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Champion Europe is reportedly set to open the first Champion...
Champion Europe is reportedly set to open the first Champion USA store in the Soho district of London
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Poc Sweden will close in the autumn its first and...
Poc Sweden will close in the autumn its first and only single-brand store, which it had opened in the French ski resort of Chamonix in 2006
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Keller Sports, the German multi-channel retailer based in Munich, won...
Keller Sports, the German multi-channel retailer based in Munich, won the German Brand Award 2017 at the end of June. Other bands that were given with the award were Uvex, Lowa and Led Lenser. Among the sporting goods retailers that participated, Keller Sports was the only company that won an ...
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Reportedly, Under Armour has finally reached a settlement with its...
Reportedly, Under Armour has finally reached a settlement with its former Spanish distributor, Alnisa Sport. The American company had terminated a distribution agreement with Alnisa, giving it notice that the contract would stop at the end of 2016, and decided to set up its own sales subsidiary in the country. ...
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Bunker Mentality, one of the most original golf apparel brands...
Bunker Mentality, one of the most original golf apparel brands in the U.K., is moving into the U.S. market through The Duran Group. Its products will be adapted to the U.S. market, where the group works with more than 6,500 pro golf shops. The group also owns the National Golf ...
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ABC Distribution will again be the Italian distributor of Inov-8,...
ABC Distribution will again be the Italian distributor of Inov-8, the British brand of trail running shoes owned by Descente, starting with the spring/summer 2018 season. ABC, which now also sells the backpacks of Ultimate Direction, had taken on the Italian distribution for Hoka One One at the start of ...
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Mundo Mammoth, one of the major physical and online retailers...
Mundo Mammoth, one of the major physical and online retailers for bicycles in Spain, has announced an agreement to integrate its operations into those of Barrabès Esquí y Montaña, the leading Spanish outdoor and ski retailer, which has adopted a hybrid online/offline retail structure since it launched its web store ...
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As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month...
As the outcome of Britain's general election earlier this month caused a sharp fall in the exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, Sports Direct International (SDI) said that its exchange rate for these currencies was fully hedged for the fiscal year until April 2018 at a rate of ...
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Intersport France has stated that it wants to become the...
Intersport France has stated that it wants to become the second-largest sporting goods retailer in Belgium, where it now has only six stores, compared with 639 in France. We estimate that Intersport was in sixth place in a market dominated by Decathlon in 2015. After closing many stores, Intersport opened ...
