News briefs - Retail – Page 120
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Sprinter, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain partly owned by...
Sprinter, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain partly owned by JD Sports Fashion, has launched its own virtual store, selling branded as well as exclusive products. Customers are entitled to a 20 percent discount on any orders placed on the web until June 17.
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Following in the footsteps of Zalando, Spartoo, one of the...
Following in the footsteps of Zalando, Spartoo, one of the major pure e-commerce players for footwear in France, has launched a dedicated page for sports shoes on its website. It features some 900 styles by 35 brands including Adidas, Nike and Reebok. Categories covered include running, trail-running, football, fitness, golf, ...
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Adidas will not renew the lease on its 1,100-m2 flagship...
Adidas will not renew the lease on its 1,100-m2 flagship Paris store on Rue de Rivoli. The store, which opened in 2001, stopped making money in 2009, following the closure of a big neighboring department store, La Samaritaine, which reduced the levels of consumer traffic in the area. They have ...
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Preparations are in full swing for the Olympic Games at...
Preparations are in full swing for the Olympic Games at Lacoste, which is opening a flagship store of about 700 square meters on Brompton Road in London. Replacing a much smaller store on the same street, this will be the French brand's largest outlet – nearly twice the size of ...
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Arena France is launching a new distribution channel: pop-up stores...
Arena France is launching a new distribution channel: pop-up stores set up in partnership with retailers at swimming events. Complete with changing cabins and a range of branded product displays, these stores are easy to build and a test has shown that they could generate twice as much turnover as ordinary booths. Arena ...
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Adidas has opened its first Stella McCartney flagship store, after...
Adidas has opened its first Stella McCartney flagship store, after working with the British designer for eight years. It is located next to the main Stella McCartney store and her children's store, which opened in Brompton Cross, London a few weeks ago. McCartney has designed the uniforms of the British ...
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Jaked, the young Italian brand of technical swimwear and accessories,...
Jaked, the young Italian brand of technical swimwear and accessories, has opened its first single-brand store in the Italian city of Pescara. Owned by Pianoforte Holding, which is also the parent company of Yamamay and Carpisa, Jaked will continue to sponsor the Italian Swimwear Federation at the Olympic Games in ...
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Keen Footwear plans to open its first Japanese store in...
Keen Footwear plans to open its first Japanese store in Tokyo next month. The American brand already has stores in Toronto, Canada and near its head office in Portland, Oregon.
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Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the...
Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the Oberrauch family, has opened a new, innovative store across from its renovated store in downtown Brunico. Spread over 785 square meters on five floors, the new store is the company's 7th Alpinhaus, specializing in outdoor and winter sports products. It ...
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After opening a single-brand store for its Fire & Ice...
After opening a single-brand store for its Fire & Ice brand on the German island of Sylt, Bogner is opening a slightly smaller one on the same island under its own name. The Bogner shop offers items from its eponymous collection, as well as those of Sonia Bogner and Fire ...
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Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of...
Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of ATPWorldTourStore.com through an expanded retail partnership between Tennis Warehouse and the ATP. The two entities have been working together since 2000. The expanded website means that fans in Europe can get the same service as those in the U.S., while ...
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Intersport Germany has won the creativity award of ZGV, the...
Intersport Germany has won the creativity award of ZGV, the country's federation of buying groups and cooperatives. ZGV awarded the buying and franchising group because of its initiatives for better quality, service, advice and a reasonable value-for-money ratio. Intersport won over two other nominees, Garant Möbel and Noweda, which are ...
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After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an...
After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an attractive new and more technical, fashionable and entertaining store concept after an investment of more than €10 million in the expansion and refurbishment of its flagship store in the Quatre Temps shopping center of Paris, the highest-traffic mall in France. ...
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The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct,...
The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct, has opened a new concept on the top floor of its store at Piccadilly Circus in London. The 800-square-foot space is called the London Fight Zone and targets boxers and fans of mixed martial arts. It sells a range of ...
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XXL Sport has opened an online store for Swedish customers....
XXL Sport has opened an online store for Swedish customers. The Norwegian sporting goods retail giant already operates one of the largest online stores for sports and outdoor products in Norway. Over the past two years, XXL has quickly expanded into neighboring Sweden with four stores in operation and three ...
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Nike has opened a new shop-in-shop in an Intersport store...
Nike has opened a new shop-in-shop in an Intersport store in central Stockholm. The 100-square-meter space is heavily focused on football. It will display Nike's football collection leading up to this summer's European Football Championships. Customers will be able to find products such as training apparel and football shoes, ...
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Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom...
Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom of the high-traffic Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The 130-square-meter store is described as an intermediary stage toward a new retail concept that will be presented in mid-2013. A subsidiary of the Swiss Maus Frères group, Aigle already has about ...
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Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South...
Peak Performance recently opened its first store in the South Korean capital of Seoul. As part of its global strategy, the company is placing a larger focus on the Asian market. Its Asian expansion began about two years ago when the brand was first launched in Japan. Now, as the ...
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The first negative winter sales results in years have caused...
The first negative winter sales results in years have caused an increase in bankruptcies among Norwegian sporting goods retailers. A drop in sales of about 10 percent in the last quarter of 2011 was the last straw for many sport retailers across the country. In the last three and a ...
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JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had...
JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had approved each of the resolutions put forward at an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday. They focused on the strategic deal announced earlier this month, which could see Dick's Sporting Goods acquiring a majority stake in the British sports retailer. The ...
