News briefs - Retail – Page 118

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    Under Armour will open an 8,000-square-foot store in the Harbor...

    2012-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Under Armour will open an 8,000-square-foot store in the Harbor East section of Baltimore next year, its first store in its hometown. The store will feature Under Armour's full line of apparel, accessories and footwear.

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    Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The...

    2012-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The 85-square-meter shop is located in the City Park shopping mall of Ljubljana. The German producer of outdoor clothing, footwear and equipment is focusing on Eastern Europe, France, the U.K., the Benelux countries and China for its foreign expansion.

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    Route One, one of the first British skate and streetwear...

    2012-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Route One, one of the first British skate and streetwear retailers to have launched an e-commerce site in 1998, has opened an interesting store in Bristol. Located just outside the Busy Cabot Circus, it measures 1,800 square feet and carries a wider range of products. Shoppers can use iPads to ...

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    Nike has chosen the trendy Ipanema district of Rio de...

    2012-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Nike has chosen the trendy Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro as the location of its first “Brand Experience” store in Latin America. Fully owned and operated by Nike, the store has three floors covering a total of more than 1,200 square meters, and a Brand Space at the top ...

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    Décathlon has opened its 17th German store. It is strategically...

    2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Décathlon has opened its 17th German store. It is strategically located in Essen, where Karstadt has its head office. Décathlon has inaugurated a new shop in the centre of Valencia, Spain. Distributed on two floors for a total surface of 5,470 square meters, the shop is the 97th in Spain ...

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    Nicolas Berggruen, owner of Karstadt, and Andrew Jennings, who has...

    2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Nicolas Berggruen, owner of Karstadt, and Andrew Jennings, who has been running the company for the past 20 months, have declared to the media over the past few weeks that they have no intention to divest its Karstadt Sports operation. They have plans to use more technology in the stores ...

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    Orage is opening next Dec. 1 its first European store...

    2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Orage is opening next Dec. 1 its first European store at Val d'Isère through a local dealer, Misty Fly, which will add some complementary products. Coalision, the Canadian company that owns this brand of skiwear, specializing in the freeski segment, sees this as a test for a possible rollout of ...

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    An international online retailer based in Spain, Tradeinn, is launching...

    2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

    An international online retailer based in Spain, Tradeinn, is launching what it describes as the first international factory outlet for sports products on the internet. Called Outletinn, it will market the closeouts of various brands, offering discounts of between 40 and 80 percent from the original prices. Following in some ...

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    Niketown Berlin will close in summer 2013. The 3,500-square-meter megastore,...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Niketown Berlin will close in summer 2013. The 3,500-square-meter megastore, located in Tauentzienstrasse, was inaugurated in 1999 and was the first of that kind in Europe. Nike has 10 similar megastores around the world but London will be the only remaining Niketown in Europe after the closing of Berlin. It ...

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    El Corte Inglés will join the AMS Sourcing buying group...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    El Corte Inglés will join the AMS Sourcing buying group starting Jan. 1. The Dutch buying group currently encompasses 13 other retail members, including Ahold, Delhaize Group, Esselunga, Jerónimo Martins and Morrisons, in 28 European countries. With this decision, El Corte Inglés aims at getting better buying conditions for both ...

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    Le Coq Sportif has inaugurated its first international flagship store...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Le Coq Sportif has inaugurated its first international flagship store in Milan. The 240-square-meter shop, on two floors, is located on Via Dante, a pedestrian shopping street in the heart of the city. Until now the brand has concentrated its retail development on the French market, with the opening of ...

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    Citadium has launched its e-commerce platform. Over the last two...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Citadium has launched its e-commerce platform. Over the last two years, the Parisian superstore, which primarily targets a 15-25-year-old audience, has repositioned itself, switching from the sale of sports brands to in street and preppy fashion, including sports-inspired products by Adidas, Converse and other brands. Citadium's main store is located ...

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    Indian newspapers have reported that more than 150 retail franchisees...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Indian newspapers have reported that more than 150 retail franchisees running Reebok mono-brand stores in India held a virulent demonstration in New Delhi earlier this monthy. They vented their anger about the measures taken by the Adidas Group to alter its relationship with Reebok franchises, which should lead to a ...

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    Fila has set out plans to open 60 more stores...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Fila has set out plans to open 60 more stores in India with its local licensing partner Cravatex by the end of 2014, adding to its current 40 stores in the country. The Italian sportswear brand is willing to capitalize on Adidas' decision to reduce its Reebok stores in India ...

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    Salomon is opening its first store in Montreal. It is...

    2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

    Salomon is opening its first store in Montreal. It is adjacent to an older store by Arc'teryx, which has been renovated for the occasion.

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    Intersport PSC Holding has now definitely decided to shut down...

    2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Intersport PSC Holding has now definitely decided to shut down its Budget Sport Schweiz subsidiary, and to close down its four low-priced stores in Ostermundigen, Biel, Emmenbrücke and Winterthur. On Aug. 16, the Swiss Intersport organization announced that it was considering this step, but called on its employees to deliver ...

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    At the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014, SportScheck,...

    2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

    At the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014, SportScheck, Germany's leading specialty sporting goods retailer, will open its second store in Berlin. The selling surface of 4,600 square meters will be located in a new shopping mall that is described as the country's largest shopping center in a downtown ...

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    Golfino has opened a new flagship store on London's West...

    2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Golfino has opened a new flagship store on London's West End, its first standalone shop in the city. The market leader in high-quality golfwear already has stores in Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Munich and Zurich, among others, as well as a shop-in-shop in Harrods department store in London. The new flagship ...

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    The German section of Sport 2000 has bundled a package...

    2012-08-30T00:00:00Z

    The German section of Sport 2000 has bundled a package for its affiliated retailers to improve their presence online. The group's e-services solutions are a toolbox of five modular pieces that the retailers can pick according to their demand. The new service starts with a basic offer: a website in ...

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    DC Shoes, the footwear company of Quiksilver, has opened its...

    2012-08-30T00:00:00Z

    DC Shoes, the footwear company of Quiksilver, has opened its first Central European door through a franchisee in Innsbruck, Austria. The store is run by Markus Baier, a co-founder of moreboards.com, a network of currently 17 stores in the country. Baier also operates three Quiksilver-branded franchises in the Austrian cities ...