News briefs - Retail – Page 117
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Sport Schuster, the large Munich-based downtown retailer, is starting the...
Sport Schuster, the large Munich-based downtown retailer, is starting the celebration of its 100th anniversary by closing a shop, a single-brand store of The North Face with a selling surface of 280 square meters. The store, where clearance sales are being held now, will be taken over by the brand's ...
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Planet Sports, the leading multi-brand sports retailer in India, has...
Planet Sports, the leading multi-brand sports retailer in India, has inked a deal to become the exclusive Indian distributor of Pluggers, an Australian brand of thongs. India is the first country where the hip Pluggers brands will be distributed outside Australia. The tie-up was revealed earlier this month at an ...
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Nico van Offeren, former head of Intersport Nederland, has teamed...
Nico van Offeren, former head of Intersport Nederland, has teamed up with another specialist to launch Friends of Retail, a consultancy focusing on sports retailing. His partner is André Wierper, whose career includes stints at Salomon, the Euro Shoe Group and Intersport Nederland. They will offer advice on such issues ...
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The Indian newspaper Business Standard reports that Décathlon has reacted...
The Indian newspaper Business Standard reports that Décathlon has reacted to the new rules on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian retailing by applying for a permit to open full-fledged retail stores in the country, instead of the cash & carry business that Décathlon has been running in India for ...
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Moncler is opening its second German store on Frankfurt's famous...
Moncler is opening its second German store on Frankfurt's famous Goethestrasse, taking the total number of single-brand stores around the world up to 90. The Italian brand of down-filled outerwear opened a store in Bel Harbour, Florida, in December. It is about to open a shop in Istanbul.
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Rossignol is partnering with AdVentori, a cross-channel marketing agency in...
Rossignol is partnering with AdVentori, a cross-channel marketing agency in Paris, to raise the number of customers in physical stores through the internet. AdVentori had already launched a pilot store-locator system via mobile phone, which was launched at the end of 2011 for the Rossignol, Dynastar, and Lange brands. Based on ...
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JD Pro, the new performance-oriented chain of sporting goods stores...
JD Pro, the new performance-oriented chain of sporting goods stores being launched by JD Sports Fashion, is not going to work with Intersport International on branding, private label or exclusive products. Negotiations were held in the past few weeks to no avail. Intersport officials declined to comment, but it would ...
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The first and only Budget Sport store in Sweden is...
The first and only Budget Sport store in Sweden is closing its doors. Ola Persson, the Intersport franchisee who has been running the store, has found a new tenant for the location from the Sportringen chain. According to Intersport officials, there were at least two reasons for dropping the experiment. ...
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Intersport France is growing rapidly in the mountain resorts, where...
Intersport France is growing rapidly in the mountain resorts, where 18 new stores joined the cooperative so far this year, building up to a total of 206 units specializing in snow and outdoor sports. Thanks to the new store openings, the retailers affiliated with Intersport in the mountain resorts have ...
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Go Sport has finally started up its virtual store in...
Go Sport has finally started up its virtual store in France. The launch is accompanied by a contest on the internet for purchase vouchers, tickets for a match of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football team and jerseys signed by the team's players, with which Go Sport struck a partnership last July. For its ...
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Escada plans to start its own online shop for the...
Escada plans to start its own online shop for the German and Austria markets in the spring of 2013, according to Textilwirtschaft. Other countries should follow in the autumn. It should start up with only a selection of items from the brand's main collection, including its Escada Sport line.
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Intersport Bündl is the first affiliate of Intersport in Austria...
Intersport Bündl is the first affiliate of Intersport in Austria to have set up a full-fledged factory outlet. It is located in the factory outlet center operated by McArthur Glenn in Salzburg, far away from Intersport Bündl's 18 other Intersport stores in the country. The factory outlet has a total surface ...
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With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL...
With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL Sport has now opened its ninth store in Sweden. In 2012 alone, the Norwegian retailer has opened four of its megastores in the country. It wants to end up with six or seven stores in the Stockholm area and four ...
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Billabong has opened its third franchised single-brand door in Germany....
Billabong has opened its third franchised single-brand door in Germany. Located in Hamburg and measuring 140 square meters, it carries also the group's Element line and follows the opening of stores in Berlin and Dortmund. In return, the Australian boardsports brand has closed its first and only corporate store in the country. ...
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Twinner Iberia is joining Sport Trade Marketing International (STMI), the...
Twinner Iberia is joining Sport Trade Marketing International (STMI), the international purchasing platform launched by Go Sport and Hervis to negotiate special conditions with the sports brands. With 231 affiliated stores, Twinner Iberia represented retail sales of €230 million last year. The French Twinner cooperative and another related French group, ...
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Oberalp, which distributes Speedo in Italy, is inaugurating its first...
Oberalp, which distributes Speedo in Italy, is inaugurating its first Speedo House in the country in the city of Bolzano, in the northeast of the country. It is located in the large sporting goods store operated by a sister company, Sportler, under the city's arcades. The Speedo House consists of ...
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Odlo has opened a franchised store for the first...
Odlo has opened a franchised store for the first time in Germany in the town of Lörrach, in the extreme southwest corner of the country. The selling space of 180 square meters is run by Intersport Bohny, a local retailer that already operates two single-brand stores for The North Face ...
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Pursuing its expansion in China, Protest has opened a new...
Pursuing its expansion in China, Protest has opened a new store in Tianjin after the startup of two stores in Beijing last year. The Dutch boardwear brand already has stores in Russia, France and the U.K. With a population of more than 10 million, Tianjin is one of the top ...
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Known as the first sports banner in France exclusively dedicated...
Known as the first sports banner in France exclusively dedicated to women, Attractive is closing its last physical store, located in Paris, to concentrate on the web. The decision follows the acquisition by Ch ristophe and Nicolas Deconinck, who founded Attractive in 2007, of a similar British operation, Sheactive, through ...
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Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the...
Confirming previous plans, the Twinner France cooperative, which groups the owners of some 200 sporting goods retail stores, has acquired a 20 percent stake in Pros du Sport, a network of 350 technical sports stores. The latter will benefit from the same conditions offered to Twinner's members in purchasing and ...
