News briefs - Retail – Page 126
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Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing...
Casino, a French chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets, is testing a sporting goods corner at one of its stores at Fontaine in the Isère region, according to sport-guide.com. Named Go Sport Basics, the area features only private label products by Go Sport, the French chain of sporting goods stores which, ...
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Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of...
Décathlon will open a store with a floor space of more than 5,000 square meters in June in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic. It will be the country's largest sporting goods store. The record in terms of size had been held by a store of 3,700 m² ...
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Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic...
Rainer Ziplinsky, a retailer from Kiel on the German Baltic Sea coast, has been appointed new managing director of LEX Laufexperten (“running experts”), the influential cooperative network of specialty running shops across Germany. The 59-year-old has been in the retailing business for about 28 years and will coordinate the actions ...
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Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in...
Peak Performance has opened its 9th corporate general store in Germany. The selling surface of 170 square meters is located in the pedestrian zone in the heart of Regensburg, Bavaria, and follows similar formats in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kempten, Münster, Stuttgart and Rosenheim. The new store displays the whole ...
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Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride...
Rusty has opened its first German collaboration store with Ride n' Roll in at LidenStasse, in Potsdam. The company plans to open more Rusty Collaboration Stores throughout Europe. The goal of the stores is for the brand and the retailer to work together on sales.
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Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in...
Garmin has opened a pilot shop-in-shop at Engelhorn Sport in Mannheim, whose selling surface of 9,600 square meters makes it one of the largest sports stores in Europe. The GPS specialty brand offers its range on a surface of some 20 square meters.
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Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia....
Garmont is changing its distribution for outdoor footwear in Australia. Effective immediately, the new distributor is Lifestyle Industries Group which also takes care of Keen down under. The company replaces Sitro Group Australia.
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JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in...
JD Sports Fashion plans to open 20 JD stores in and around Paris and five to six shops in Marseille as the group focuses on its development in France this year, chairman Peter Cowgill said in an interview with the Financial Times. Cowgill explained that the JD format, focused on ...
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Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within...
Peak Performance will open five new stores in Sweden within the next few months. First out is a 154-square-meter store at Frölunda Torg, Gothenburg. Locations for the other four stores have yet to be announced. Peak Performance is also expanding internationally. New stores are to be opened in Switzerland, Italy ...
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Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding...
Element is amid a flurry of store openings. The skateboarding brand, which is owned by Billabong, is most recently opening shop in Paris, following on the heels of a new store in Plymouth, England, earlier this month and the March opening in Barcelona. The new Paris shop, on the Rue ...
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The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St....
The Tom Morris Golf Shop, the 144-year-old store at St. Andrews in Scotland, has reopened after being closed for remodeling over the winter. The shop has a new “old” look, featuring furniture that Tom Morris himself owned and the same design for the shop's sign as was used when he ...
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Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged...
Sports Direct International plans to open its first four full-fledged stores in France this year, all in the Paris region. The first one is set to open shortly on 1,500 m² in the area of Herblay-Franconville, across from a Décathlon superstore. Another one, measuring 2,000 m², should take the place ...
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Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport...
Somewhat like Zara, starting in May, H&M will open sport departments ranging from 50 to 300 square meters in most Swedish stores. Claes Forsberg, former chief executive of Svenskt Sportforum, is responsible for this launch. At first the focus will be on athletic shoes and running clothes. A former athlete, ...
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Runners Point, the German specialty chain, is moving into Switzerland...
Runners Point, the German specialty chain, is moving into Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The operation is going to be handled through a local partner, Futura AG. The latter was founded and is run by Stephan Ruggle, who was the chief executive of Swiss Intersport until late 2008. He then switched to ...
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Kaufhof has integrated a specialty sports store under the Sportarena...
Kaufhof has integrated a specialty sports store under the Sportarena banner in its department store in Düsseldorf. The selling surface is 4,400 square meters. This store is the 13th of its type in Germany after one door was closed in a shopping mall in Oberhausen.
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Franz-Leo Drucks, the chairman of Intersport Germany's supervisory board, has...
Franz-Leo Drucks, the chairman of Intersport Germany's supervisory board, has opened his fifth store in the town of Eschweiler on a selling surface of 1,100 square meters. The retailer from Aachen now has an estimated total surface of 8,500 square meters in five towns in the region between Cologne and ...
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Shareholders of JJB Sports will vote later this month on...
Shareholders of JJB Sports will vote later this month on a proposal to issue 162.5 million new shares in order to raise £65 million (€74m-$106m) so it can continue with its restructuring plan. The four largest shareholders, Harris Associates, Crystal Amber, Invesco Asset Management and the Bill & Melinda Gates ...
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A.S. Adventure, the Belgian retailer with 37 stores in that...
A.S. Adventure, the Belgian retailer with 37 stores in that country and Luxembourg, has entered the French market with a 2,000-square-meter store in Reims-Thillois. The company, which also has 36 stores under the Bever Travel & Outdoor banner in the Netherlands and 59 Cotswold Outdoor shops in the U.K., touts ...
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Oakley just opened a new store in Times Square in...
Oakley just opened a new store in Times Square in New York this past weekend. It will feature the latest styles and technologies, including the Perform Beautifully line for women and the golf apparel and footwear collections. New products will debut there, and it also has an Oakley Custom bar ...
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O'Neill has opened new stores in Hasselt, Belgium, and in...
O'Neill has opened new stores in Hasselt, Belgium, and in Dresden, Germany. The 250-square-meter shop is in the center of the old town of Hasselt, where most shopping is in the city. The Dresden store occupies 150 square meters in the ECE shopping center of the city. O'Neill plans to ...
