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ArticleKuenzi will join The Athlete’s Foot after a 24% sales gain
The 550-odd stores and websites affiliated with The Athlete’s Foot (TAF) around the world raised their sales by 24 percent to a new record of $503 million in the past year, said the Arklyz Group, which acquired the chain from Intersport International Corp. in July, surpassing the originally set target ...
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News briefsNew global store concept for Hoka launched in Asia
Green Room, an experimental design agency based in Birmingham, has partnered with footwear and apparel brand Hoka to develop a new global store concept that has been launched first in China and Southeast Asia. The partnership has developed a community-focused retail concept that will be rolled out in multiple locations ...
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ArticleXXL starts 2022 with a sales dip after 9.4% growth in Q4
XXL ASA said its revenues declined in January by around 20 percent to 720 million Norwegian kroner (€71.5m-$81.7m), after a “record-breaking” January 2021, as the Nordic sports retailer’s monthly sales performance was conditioned by less favorable winter sport conditions in most of the Nordic region as well as an earlier ...
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ArticleDecathlon Germany reports best year in history
Decathlon Germany has reported the most successful financial year in the company’s 35-year history. Since the first German store opened in Dortmund in 1986, the sporting goods manufacturer and retailer has expanded to 84 stores, two logistics centers and four campus locations for central services with a total of 4,833 ...
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News briefsGore-Tex expands its U.S. rental program
Gore-Tex has expanded its rental program called “Outerwear on Demand” in the U.S. The snowsports apparel rental service was originally launched in December 2020 and is now offered at 15 ski resorts and retail stores across the country. Gore-Tex has even developed a dedicated Outerwear On Demand collection. The apparel ...
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News briefsNew Sports Direct flagship store planned in Manchester
Frasers Group has announced plans to open a new Sports Direct flagship in the Arndale shopping center in Manchester city center. Sports Direct currently occupies 2,700 square meters on the lower first floor of the shopping center. Under a new 15-year lease, Sports Direct will move into the 5,440-square-meter space, ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany tests CO2-friendly same-day delivery
The sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon is testing the expansion of sustainable services in Germany. In Munich, a pilot project has been set up in collaboration with Glocally, a logistics company founded in 2021 by three students at the Technical University of Munich. The company focuses on a sustainable ...
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Superkicks with 4th brick-and-mortar store in India
Indian online sneaker retailer Superkicks opened its fourth brick-and-mortar store in Guwahati in the country’s northeast on Feb. 5. To test the market, which the retailer says has already been very profitable for its online business in the past, Superkicks opened an 80-square-meter pop-up store for a six-month period. ...
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News briefsSeventh Absolute Run store opened
Sport 2000 reports that the seventh Absolute Run store opened on Feb. 4 in Germany. The owner of the store, which has been existing as “Laufsport Andreas” since 2006 in the city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia (80,000 inhabitants), is Petra Benecke, who has now reopened her store as “Absolute ...
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With new members, Intersport Germany predicts over 5% annual growth
Intersport Germany predicts that its retail members will be able to achieve annual growth of more than 5 percent between now and 2025, with significant double-digit growth online, benefitting from the development of the “360° Intersport ecosystem,” new omni-channel services and the broad rollout of better store formats. The 800-odd ...
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Adidas and Decathlon encourage shoe recycling to help women practice sports
Adidas and Decathlon have decided to jointly organize and finance a program intended to promote sustainability and women’s sports in France at the same time. In a first step, Decathlon has started offering customers at its 330 stores in France to drop off 25,000 used sports shoes by any brand, ...
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Intersport is pushing its exclusive brands
Intersport International Corp. (IIC) intends to fine-tune the development and adoption of its own private brands, further raising their share of the affiliated retail members’ sales. Positioned as mid-priced, high-quality offerings with good margins against those of the major brands, the group’s exclusive brands currently represent around 10 percent of ...
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A new regional set-up for Intersport in Europe
Dividing the European market into three regional clusters, Intersport International Corp. (IIC) has established a new set-up that has probably contributed to its relatively good performance in the past year, in spite of differences from one country to the other. Under the wing of Steve Evers, CEO of IIC, an ...
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ANWR reports higher sales in sports and leathergoods, not at shoe shops
The high degree of diversification across many businesses, industries and regions again helped the ANWR Group in the pandemic. In 2021, the group increased its total business volume by 11 percent to €19.8 billion, and the financing of centralized settlement operations by its DZB Bank and Aktivbank were the main ...
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ArticleNew manager in charge of Intersport’s exclusive brands
Intersport International Corp. (IIC), which has big ambitions in this area (more on this soon), has appointed Katja Adrienne Erbe as its new General Manager EB Commercial, taking over responsibility for Intersport’s exclusive brands from Jessica Mair from the month of March. After working for the Adidas Group for 19 ...
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ArticleStrong year-end spurt in Sweden
The past year ended with a bang for Swedish sports retailers. Their total retail sales rose by 20.7 percent year-on-year during the important fourth quarter, according to the quarterly Sportindex produced by the Swedish Sports Forum in collaboration with HUI Research, which is based on a sample of major players ...
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ArticleSigna Sports United predicts a temporary sales decline, due to supply chain constraints
Signa Sports United (SSU), the world’s leading sports e-tailer, reported a 10 percent increase in total revenues to €247 million in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, ended Sept. 30, 2021, despite supply constraints for full bicycles, as it continued to benefit from resilient consumer demand across its verticals. ...
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ArticleStrong global growth and positive outlook for Intersport
Retail sales grew by 20.7 percent in 2021 to a new record of €12.2 billion (including VAT) for the retailers affiliated with Intersport International Corp. (IIC). In terms of local currencies, sales went up by 19.4 percent for the year, with growth of 20.4 percent in the second half after ...
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ArticleBarbara Martin Coppola will run Decathlon worldwide
Decathlon has announced the appointment of Barbara Martin Coppola as the group’s new CEO, starting in mid-March. The 45-year-old French and Spanish binational will take the place of Michel Aballea, who has held the helm of the world’s largest sporting goods retailer since 2015. “The current good health of Decathlon ...
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A new boss for Euretco Sport
On Feb. 1, Olaf de Boer will become the new general manager of Euretco Sport, taking the place of Jan Willem Juffer, who is taking a new position as CEO of ANWB Retail. Euretco Sport is the Dutch franchisee for Intersport and The Athlete’s Foot, and it runs the Runnersworld ...
