Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 161
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Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open...
Ochsner Sport, the Swiss sporting goods retailer, is to open its first store in Germany this month, in the Glacis-Galerie in Neu-Ulm, according to a report filed by the Deichmann group, the big German shoe retailer that owns Dosenbach-Ochsner in Switzerland. Oddly, the opening in that shopping gallery has already ...
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Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...
Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong later this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and other Asia-Pacific countries ...
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Zalando moves into the black for the year
Zalando made an annual operating profit at group level for the first time last year, and not only in Germany where it had already become profitable before.According to preliminary figures, the big German-based e-tailer booked an adjusted operating margin (Ebit) of 3.7 percent of sales, before extraordinary items, versus a ...
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Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities...
Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid and Barcelona before the end of 2017, according to Modaes.es. The Spanish website reports that Under Armour's sales grew last year by 63 percent to €10 million in Spain, where the brand ...
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Adidas Group boasts robust underlying performance
The Adidas Group is eagerly turning the page on a year of ups and downs, when ample gains for the Adidas brand were marred by shrinking sales in its golf business and the weakness of the Russian ruble. A few weeks ago the group had already revealed headline figures for ...
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SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters...
SportScheck will open a new store of 2,500 square meters in Mönchengladbach on March 26, but it will shut down its store in Essen early next year, pulling away from the Ruhr area. With its 5,500 square meters, the store in Essen was just too big. The company hopes that ...
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Go Sport has launched an internet platform in France to...
Go Sport has launched an internet platform in France to allow consumers to rent or rent out all kinds of sporting goods items, including skis, bicycles, tennis racquets, tents and canoes. Other companies that rent out these kinds of products can post their ads on the website. The French retailer, ...
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Twinner Iberia continues to federate other smaller Spanish buying groups...
Twinner Iberia continues to federate other smaller Spanish buying groups around it in order to raise their collective buying power. It has signed a collaboration agreement with Gys Sport in the financial, administrative and commercial areas, starting with orders placed with some strategic vendors by their retail members for the ...
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Moncler has opened its first Paris boutique exclusively dedicated to...
Moncler has opened its first Paris boutique exclusively dedicated to the brand's men's collections, which include Moncler Gamme Bleu, Moncler main collection, and the Moncler Lunettes eyewear collection. The new 80-square-meter store is located in the trendy Marais district, at 11 rue des Archives. The concept store has been designed by ...
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New Balance is reportedly planning to open its first flagship...
New Balance is reportedly planning to open its first flagship store in the U.K. at a prime location on Oxford Street in London, but not before 2017, although the lease has been signed apparently. The brand has many stores in the U.S., but in the U.K. it only has concessions ...
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Keen has opened an enlarged mono-brand store in Atrium Flora,...
Keen has opened an enlarged mono-brand store in Atrium Flora, a premium shopping center in Prague, through its successful Czech distributor, Outdoor Concept. Replacing a smaller outlet that was opened on the same site three years ago, it's the third Keen store in the city.
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Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on...
Lululemon Athletica opened its store on London's King's Road on Jan. 23. Meanwhile, members of the Wilson family that controls Lululemon are planning to open two or three Kit & Ace stores in London as well later this year, according to Drapers magazine. Kit & Ace is a new chain ...
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Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop...
Uefa has signed a license agreement with Marka to develop the first Uefa Champions League Experience concept stores in the Middle East. The first opening is scheduled for May this year at the Yas Mall on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and there are confirmed plans for further expansion across the ...
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After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg...
After opening its first German store on Mönckebergstrasse in Hamburg last autumn, Stadium plans to open another one in the spring in the trendy Altona district of the city, measuring about 1,000 square meters ++ After opening six new stores in Germany and Switzerland in 2014, Blue Tomato plans to ...
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Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of...
Kastner & Öhler is planning to add a couple of Gigasport stores in Austria to its present network of 15 sports stores in the country. It closed one in the past summer. After pulling out of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2012, Gigasport also closed its three stores in ...
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Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of...
Alibaba vigorously protested about comments made by an official of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) last week, claiming that more than 60 percent of the products sold on its Taobao marketplace were fake and that the company was not doing enough to fight counterfeiting. It was even ...
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Bauer Hockey, a subsidiary of Performance Sports Group, has announced...
Bauer Hockey, a subsidiary of Performance Sports Group, has announced it will open its first Bauer Hockey store, called “Own The Moment,” in the Boston suburb of Burlington, Massachusetts, in late summer. A second location will start up in the Minneapolis area in the autumn. The company currently plans an ...
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Rossignol has opened a pop-up store in a Paris museum,...
Rossignol has opened a pop-up store in a Paris museum, the Grand Palais, to showcase a new, elegant line of urban clothing to promote its development in the sector. The store is set against the backdrop of a large ice skating rink that will remain in place for the holidays ...
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A franchised Odlo stores opens in the French ski resort...
A franchised Odlo stores opens in the French ski resort of Megève
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Moncler is opening its first store in Prague
Moncler is opening its first store in Prague
