Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 158

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    Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more...

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    Go Sport, the French sports retailer, is opening two more stores in Poland, to form a network of 28 stores. Covering 1,255 square meters, the first store is located in the northern Polish town of Elbag, in the Ogrody shopping arcade. The second store of about 1,224 square meters is ...

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    Two major foreign sports retailers are planting their stores in...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Two major foreign sports retailers are planting their stores in the Paunsdorf Center of Leipzig, according to SAZ. One is Decathlon, which has reportedly rented space in the East German shopping mall to open a 4,200-square-meter store in the autumn. The other one is A3 Sport, a Czech retailer that ...

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    Herman van Beveren, chief executive of Decathlon in Belgium, told...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Herman van Beveren, chief executive of Decathlon in Belgium, told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir that the French retailer could expand by another 40 stores in the small country. Decathlon has already reformed the Belgian sports retail landscape in the last years by expanding to 23 stores. The latest store, ...

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    Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Hervis continues to expand outside Austria by opening its fifth store in Bavaria later this year, most likely in the autumn. The discount-oriented chain has rented a 1,000-square-meter space in a shopping center in Neumarkt.

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    New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    New Balance has announced plans for a flagship store on London's Oxford Street, which should open around the middle of next year. The store on the ultra-busy shopping street is to cover 1,200 square meters. The displays will highlight the company's innovation as well as that it manufactures in England. ...

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    Intersport Italia has announced the opening of yet another franchised...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Italia has announced the opening of yet another franchised Intersport store in the Sicilian town of Enna

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    Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer has reportedly teamed up with Norman Walsh Footwear, an upmarket British sports footwear company with production facilities in Britain. The Daily Telegraph reports that M&S is to sell a range of eight models at about £110 per pair under its Best of British label. The tie-up will ...

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    Adidas is urged to speak out over Qatar

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Campaigners are stepping up pressure on the sponsors of Fifa, the global football organization, to speak out about the conditions faced by migrant workers on World Cup infrastructure construction sites in Qatar, where the football World Cup is to be held in 2022.The latest campaign was launched at a press conference ...

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    The Adidas Group reiterated this week that it has no...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group reiterated this week that it has no intention of selling Reebok, after the owner of CrossFit told a reporter that he would like the fitness brand to come under fresh ownership. Reebok became a partner for CrossFit under a ten-year agreement started in 2010, and the huge ...

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    The Adidas Group's chief executive, Herbert Hainer, said at the...

    2015-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group's chief executive, Herbert Hainer, said at the company's shareholders meeting on May 7 that it has appointed Perella Weinberg Partners as an adviser. The move comes after reports of interest by activist hedge funds. Southeastern Asset Management (SAM), which owns just over 3 percent of Adidas, has ...

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    Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Team Sportia, the recently reorganized Swedish retailer, has opened a new concept store with a strong focus on bicycles and triathlon in the warmer months and cross-country skiing in the colder months, following the renovation of a former fairly anonymous shop. It is located in Barkarby's Ikea shopping center, next ...

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    Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a temporary shop-in-shop in Globetrotter's store in Frankfurt. The French brand will occupy 165 square meters in the store until Feb. 16, 2016. It will organize a slackline challenge and start a testing center in October. Meanwhile, Columbia opened a shop-in-shop ...

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    Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil,...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Stadium has opened its first outlet store on Finnish soil, outside of Helsinki. The outlet store is located in the large Tammisto shopping center in Vantaa. It is also the location of one of Stadium's 26 regular stores in the country. The company has already had a successful roll-out of ...

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    Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Kelme will open its first European mono-brand store in Valencia through a retail partner, using it as a pilot for other stores in Spain. There are already a dozen Kelme stores in Delhi, the capital of India. According to CMD, Kelme raised it sales last year by 30 percent to ...

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    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading U.K. sports retailer, has come under scrutiny in a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches. “The Secrets of Sports Direct” alleged that some of the discounts carried by the retailer may be misleading, because the company was inflating the original price of the products on ...

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    Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Debenhams, the upscale British department store chain, has decided to open 12 more Sports Direct concessions by August 2016, covering a total of 200,000 square feet, after encouraging tests since last summer at its stores in Bristol, Guildford, Harrow and Portsmouth. The management said there was no relation with the ...

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    Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Arc'teryx will open its first company-owned European flagship store in the St. James district of London in August as part of a new program to establish similar flagships in key cities around the world. There is already an Arc'teryx store in London's Covent Garden, which is operated by Snow + ...

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    Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in...

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Sverige has launched a click & collect application in its store at Stockholm's Arlanda airport and at four other locations in the Swedish capital. Working with a Swedish company, Welcom, it has a developed an app that allows customers to select the products that they want to order with ...

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    Adidas Group regains impetus

    2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The Adidas Group has delivered a vigorous sales and profit increase for the first quarter, with improvements in all markets other than Russia and the golf business. The group's sales jumped by 17.3 percent to €4,083 million, which was an increase of 9 percent in constant currencies, and its underlying ...