News briefs - Retail – Page 51
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Hervis has a new CEO
Hervis Sport, the Austrian sports retail chain, has appointed Oliver Seda as its new CEO, effective Oct. 1. He takes over from Werner Weber, who will leave Hervis at the end of the year based on a transitional arrangement that began after the sudden departure of the previous CEO, Alfred ...
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E-commerce helps Decathlon Germany to grow by 1.2%
Despite the restrictions imposed by Covid-19, Decathlon was able to increase its net sales in Germany by 1.2 percent in 2020 as compared to the previous year. They reached €667 million, generating operating income (Ebit) of €10.8 million. In addition to the growing digital business, which represented 28 percent of ...
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Sport Zone will host an online marketplace
Over the coming months, the Iberian Sports Retail Group of JD Sports Fashion will be setting up a marketplace for Sport Zone, under whose banner more than a hundred physical stores are operating in Portugal and the Canary Islands. The group hopes to replicate the success of its Sprinter marketplace, ...
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News briefsKeller Sports starts Brand City Clash, gets innovation award
Keller Sports, the fast-growing German online retailer for premium sports products and services, is organizing a special multi-sport challenge, the “Brand City Clash by Keller,” in five German cities - Würzburg, Dresden, Münster, Freiburg and Munich - with the help of five brands for the first time this summer. In ...
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Decathlon launches its first pop-up store in Russia
Decathlon has opened its first point of sales in a pop-up store format in Russia. Located in the Nagorny district of Moscow, it is expected to operate for a limited period of five months in partnership with the Russian ADG real estate group. Decathlon explained that the new format would ...
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Martes launches new Martes Sport Pro concept
Martes Sport has branded or rebranded 70 stores as Martes Sport Pro, expanding the offer of sports equipment and enhancing the customer experience. The leading Polish sports company has opened 28 new stores since March 2020 in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania with a total area of more than ...
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Foot Locker opens a flagship store in Barcelona’s Plaza Catalunya
Foot Locker has announced the opening of a 550-square-meter store at 20 Plaza Catalunya, the main square in the heart of Barcelona. Covering two floors, the new store has a special focus on sustainability and art, with mannequins made from reused sneakers and original store artwork inspired by the diversity ...
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Decathlon France is testing an in-store “sport and health” corner
Decathlon is testing an interactive “educational corner” on sport and health, with a focus on connected devices, at its main Decathlon Campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, in the north of France. The new space is meant to allow customers to benefit from personalized advice about how to improve their lifestyle in ...
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Google to open in NYC its first permanent retail store
Google is opening its first permanent retail store this summer at the company’s Chelsea campus in New York City, which is already home to many of Google’s 11,000-plus NYC employees. Google has not announced a date for the opening. The store will sell a variety of products, from Pixel phones ...
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Decathlon plans to introduce franchising in Switzerland
Decathlon is further expanding its activities in Switzerland, while introducing the concept of franchising in mountain areas. According to Swiss media reports, a first franchise store is to open in Valais in the winter of 2022. Decathlon also intends to generate further growth in its wholesale business. Since mid-2020, the ...
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Decathlon plans to expand further in Italy
Decathlon has plans for eight new stores in Italy by the end of the year, four of which have already been inaugurated. The new stores are located in Asti, Bologna, Lonato del Garda (Brescia), Ponte nelle Alpi (Belluno) Roma Ostiense, Taranto, Trapani and Venaria (Turin). The new openings, which also ...
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Hervis proposes online video consulting
To come closer to the customer, the Austrian sports retailer Hervis Sports is supplementing its omnichannel service offering with a personal video consultation, especially in product areas that require a lot of advice, like skis and bikes. Working together with SPAR ICS, the IT subsidiary of its parent company, SPAR, ...
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Angling Direct’s former CEO, Darren Bailey, is leaving
Darren Bailey, the former CEO and managing director of Angling Direct, is leaving the company. Bailey, who moved from CEO to non-executive director in 2019, informed the board that he would not stand for re-election at the May 11 annual meeting. He has been with the leading British online and ...
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Shares of Sports Direct’s parent reach a 52-week high
Frasers Group, which owns Sports Direct International and many other assets, has launched a new share buyback program, limiting the maximum aggregate purchase price at £60 million (€69m-$83m) for a total of up to ten million shares. It started on May 4 with the acquisition of 3,189 shares at an ...
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Cisalfa expands its retail network after a 2.7% sales drop
Italy’s Cisalfa Sport Group suffered a relatively small decline of 2.7 percent in consolidated sales to €439.5 million in the financial year ended Feb. 28. Excluding revenues of €179 million from the Intersport business in Italy, Cisalfa Sport and its other integrated sporting goods retail chains had revenues of €366.4 ...
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JD buys a small meanswear retailer
JD Sports Fashion has acquired Oi Polloi, an upscale casual menswear store in Manchester, and its online shop. Founded in 2002, the retailer offers clothing under its own label as well as brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Converse, Keen, Patagonia, Barbour, Ralph Lauren, Superga, Levi’s, Stone Island and Armor Lux. ...
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No change planned in JD’s top management
In response to our inquiry, a spokesman for JD Sports Fashion denied a report in The Sunday Times that Peter Cowgill, the company’s dynamic executive chairman and CEO, was planning to step down from its day-to-day functions, hiring a CEO to help manage the group’s growing range of operations. He ...
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Sports Direct voted “worst” sports shop in Britain by customers
Sports Direct has been ranked as the U.K.’s worst sports shop, according to a survey conducted by a consumer specialist agency, Which? The poll asked 10,909 members of Which? and the general public in November about their most recent experiences of purchasing outdoor and sporting equipment at 29 of Britain’s ...
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Afterplay establishes e-tail platform for installment payments
The payment processor Afterpay is launching an online platform, called Dropshop by Afterpay, that offers interest-free installment payment plans for exclusive or early access to certain products. For instance, working in partnership with The Finish Line, the U.S. sporting goods retailer recently acquired by JD Sports Fashion, the platform will ...
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Mobile payment for the NBA League Pass in Western Europe and South Africa
If they have a subscription with the right carrier, fans in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Spain and the U.K. will no longer need to use a credit card to pay for their NBA League Pass. The National Basketball Association has signed a multi-year deal with PM Connect to ...
