News briefs - Retail – Page 49
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Alltricks opens a physical store in southern France
Alltricks, the French-based e-tailer controlled by the Decathlon group, has opened a branded physical store in the area of the Decathlon Village at Bouc Bel Air, between the French cities of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. The new 450-square-meter store, inaugurated on July 6, specializes in the cycling, running, outdoor and triathlon ...
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Ochsner pulls out of the German market
Ochsner Sport, the big Swiss sporting goods retail chain owned by the Deichmann group, is withdrawing from the German market, parting with its nine remaining Sport Sperk stores in the country, according to Textilwirtschaft. Six of them, with a total of around 7,500 square meters of sales space, will be ...
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Skiset strenghtens its position in ski rentals with Skimium's acquisition
Skiset, the international ski and snowboard rental company based in France, has acquired Ski Break and its Skimium subsidiary, as Sport Guide has first revealed. Skimium is an online ski rental business and a partner of Decathlon. Skimium was founded in 2006 by Eric Laboureix, Dominique Chomarat and Guy Belec, ...
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JD Sports signs up as new sleeve sponsor of Norwich City
JD Sports will be the shirt sleeve sponsor of the Norwich City Football Club for the upcoming Premier League season, starting in August. The logo of the sports retail company will feature on the sleeve of the club’s first team on its home, away and third kits, as well as ...
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Another long-serving director steps down at JD Sports Fashion
Another director is leaving the board of directors of JD Sports Fashion, following a statement made at its recent annual shareholders’ meeting that the composition of the board should “address the tenure of certain Board members who have served on the Board for longer than recommended within the Corporate Governance ...
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JD Sports transfers the ownership of DTLR Villa to its U.S. unit
JD Sports Fashion has transferred the ownership of DTLR Villa, a Baltimore-based retailer, to a U.S. sub-group, Genesis Topco, in which it holds a controlling stake of 80 percent. The balance is in the hands of the four Mersho brothers who previously sold another American sports retailer, Shoe Palace, to ...
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An Absolute Run-Finish Line store opens in Germany
The fifth Absolute Run store affiliated with Sport 2000 has opened in downtown Nuremberg, Germany. Its full name is actually Absolute Run–Finish Line. Covering nearly 300 square meters, it takes the place of a running specialty store called Finish Line, like the U.S. banner recently taken over by JD Sports ...
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Omnichannel purchasing has become the norm in Spain
According to the “Estudio E-Commerce 2021,” a study put out by IAB Spain and Elogia, the distinction between e-tail and physical retail has blurred this year in Spain to the point of indifference for 58 percent of the country’s consumers. This is an increase of six percentage points from last ...
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Decathlon launches its marketplace in France
The international French-based sports retailer has finally rolled out its new online marketplace concept in its domestic market, acting in collaboration with a local developer, Mirakl. The items being offered on the French website can be filtered by supplier or brand name, by type of product, by sport and by ...
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Decathlon sends its first American athlete ambassadors to the Olympics
Decathlon has announced that two of its sponsored athletes, Jamal Hill (paralympic swimming) and Robyn Stevens (race walking), have qualified for the Tokyo Summer Olympics and will be the first Team USA athletes to represent the French brand at the Olympic Games. After being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
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Peloton opens a store in Leipzig
Peloton Interactive continues to expand its presence at retail in Germany, one of the few foreign markets currently under its radar. It has opened its eighth German store in the city center of Leipzig, replacing a former pop-up area in the local department store of Breuninger. Located in the Specks ...
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Decathlon launches its marketplace in the U.K.
Decathlon UK has reportedly launched its own marketplace, offering domestic brands such as Donda Cycling and Pendle Bike Racks as well as items by international brands such as Adidas and Speedo. As previously reported, Decathlon is rolling out its marketplace in various European countries. It launched its first marketplace in ...
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UYN opens its first Basecamp Store
UYN - Unleash Your Nature has opened its first UYN Basecamp Store, a retail space whose concept and name are meant to recall the landmark role of base camps for mountaineers. The new 200-square-meter store is located in San Ginesio, a municipality in the Italian province of Macerata, located in ...
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Sports Direct aims to open flagships in all European capitals
Sports Direct is considering acquisitions as a way to build up its presence in Europe, according to the Financial Times. It is also looking at opening flagship stores in “all” capital cities in Europe, similar to the one it has just inaugurated on London’s Oxford Street, as part of a ...
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JD reportedly buys a young women’s apparel brand
In a further move into the local young fashion market, JD Sports Fashion has acquired Missy Empire, a fast-fashion e-tailer based in Manchester, according to Drapers, which indicates the possibility that its women’s apparel collection will be offered in JD Sports’ stores and on its website in 2022. The group ...
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Decathlon's sales fell by 10.7% in Spain in 2020
Decathlon’s sales in Spain fell last year by 10.7 percent to €1,526 million including VAT, due to Covid-related restrictions, but the online channel grew by 126 percent to represent 18 percent of the total turnover. The number of stores rose by two to a total of 174, but their sales ...
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Austria’s Gigasport chain earns Sport 2000’s Profi seal
Gigasport, one of the bigger members of Sport 2000 Austria, is implementing the specialized “profi” concept of the buying group in all its 18 stores in the country. A seal of quality has been given by the buying group for all Gigasport stores in the areas of mountain, ski, bike ...
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Foot Locker Europe partners with drop-shipping expert
Foot Locker Europe has signed a four-year deal with CommerceHub to help expand its product assortment and create a more efficient supply chain for its Foot Locker and Sidestep banners in 18 countries. It will do so through the drop-ship network of CommerceHub, a leading cloud-based e-commerce enablement platform with ...
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Skechers opens a flagship in Berlin
Skechers USA is building up its own network of mono-brand stores in Europe strongly. After setting up a flagship store in Munich last year, it is opening another flagship of 1,000 square meters in a very central area of Berlin. Located on the Tauentzienstrasse in front of the Kaiser-Wilhlem-Gedächtnis Church ...
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Intersport launches “Überwissen” campaign in Germany
In a new marketing campaign that ironizes the hyper-knowledge owned and shared by its staff on the sales floor, Intersport Germany celebrates the re-opening of its retail partners’ stores after a long lockdown. The “Überwissen” (= something like “superior knowledge”) video directed by Pat Boriello shows the origin of a ...
