News briefs - Retail – Page 81
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Keller Sports launched a new online shop, called Keller X,...
Keller Sports launched a new online shop, called Keller X, earlier this month. The German high-end online retailer aims to sell selected lifestyle products and accessories by brands like Nike, Adidas, Puma, New Balance and Asics on its new web store. The number of brands will be expanded in the ...
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Decathlon has opened a 300-square-meter “Connect Store” in the central...
Decathlon has opened a 300-square-meter “Connect Store” in the central railroad station of Berlin. Like two similar stores opened in Munich and Stuttgart in the last two years, it allows passersby to order items online and to collect them. It's Decathlon's fifth store in the German capital and its 52nd ...
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Spanish retailers specializing in paddle tennis are targeting the Italian...
Spanish retailers specializing in paddle tennis are targeting the Italian market, where the sport is growing strongly. Time2Padel is opening its first foreign store in Milan this month, working through a franchisee. Another specialist, Padel Nuestro, opened a store in Rome in 2016.
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Colmar is planning to open a store on Brewer Street...
Colmar is planning to open a store on Brewer Street in London in October. Other openings are in the pipeline in Lille, France and Kitzbühel, Austria. The Italian sports apparel brand, which has renovated its headquarters in Monza, is also looking at re-entering the U.S. market by opening a sales ...
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Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at...
Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at 35 Spring Street, close to the Supreme shop in the heart of Little Italy, the 100-square-meter store features its new lifestyle apparel collection, in addition to its traditional line of sunglasses. The apparel line has been developed in collaboration with ...
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Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been...
Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been opening stores specializing in the sale of sneakers in the past few years. A Swedish sports retailer, Stadium, has already opened two stores under the Sneakers Point banner in the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Malmö, as well as an ...
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Karstadt has agreed to offer Boomerang and Mountain Pro clothing...
Karstadt has agreed to offer Boomerang and Mountain Pro clothing for running, fitness and outdoor in its Karstadt department stores and its Karstadt Sports specialty stores in Germany, as well as on their websites. The two brands are private labels of El Corte Inglés, the big Spanish department store chain. ...
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Schöffel has launched a new B2B internet portal for its...
Schöffel has launched a new B2B internet portal for its retailer partners worldwide. Retailers are able to place orders, put together collections for their stores, reorder items and receive marketing support for their communication with customers. Schöffel aims to expand the range of its services on its B2B portal in ...
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Wiggle, the British online retailer specializing in cycling, running and...
Wiggle, the British online retailer specializing in cycling, running and swimming products, has launched a range of outdoor products on its website in the U.K. The brands featured on the site include The North Face, Berghaus, Jack Wolfskin, Craghoppers, Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, Icebreaker and Columbia. The initiative is steered by ...
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Adidas has pledged to use only recycled plastic by 2024....
Adidas has pledged to use only recycled plastic by 2024. The announcement was first reported by the Financial Times. The company uses virgin plastic for a number of its products, including T-shirts, sports bras and many others, as this material is lightweight and dries quickly. Meanwhile, the sporting goods giant ...
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Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns...
Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns about potential over-commercialization of football and dilution of the game's quality, due to an increasing number of competitions and participants. In an interview with Kicker, a German football magazine, he said that Fifa's decision to increase the number of teams ...
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Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test...
Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test a new retail format called Power Store. The information has been released by the retailer's senior management during a conversation with financial analysts, according to reports by Fashion Network. The new format is supposed to offer customers an immersive experience ...
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Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start...
Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start of October by Intersport Twinsport, the largest Intersport member in the Netherlands, Sport Partner reports. The store of about 6,000 square meters is one of the five megastores run by Sportsworld, which was launched by Inge van Kemenade as a ...
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Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June,...
Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June, 28. The German voluntary group opened it in Kiel in cooperation with Intersport Knudsen, the group's local retail partner, and with Puma and the city of Kiel. Other sponsors and partners are AOK NordWest, the German insurance company, and Kompan, ...
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Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...
Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...
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Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that...
Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that an unauthorized party had gained access to customer information from its e-commerce platform in the U.S. A preliminary investigation indicates that a few million records were stolen including contact information, user names and encrypted passwords, but there was no evidence ...
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Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet,...
Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet, a shopping center due to open around the end of this year in Paris, where the French sports retailer has taken up a space of 1,500 square meters. The shopping center in the north-eastern area of Cardinet-Batignolles covers more than ...
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Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports...
Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports Fashion group, is opening a second store in Paris, in the Marais district. Footpatrol has turned into a sneaker destination in Soho in London since it opened its original store in 2002 and then moved to its current location on ...
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Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring...
Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring its big retail store, covering five floors, and reopened it in May. On the ground floor, Reischmann offers training and running products as well as lifestyle-sneakers for men. The first floor is used for the running, fitness, beachwear and winter ...
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Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in...
Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in Sweden, in a popular shopping district in the middle of Stockholm. Like the company's other locations around the world, the store space of about 200 square meters will be used to sell the company's clothing and as a yoga studio.
