Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 163
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Skechers has opened its 1,000th store in Mexico City...
Skechers has opened its 1,000th store in Mexico City
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Working through Hermes NexTec, a subsidiary of the Otto Group,...
Working through Hermes NexTec, a subsidiary of the Otto Group, Adidas has launched a webshop in 15 European countries at adidasspecialtysports.com, offering products specifically developed for specific sports such as badminton, cricket, cross-country skiing, cycling, handball, rugby, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling. The site contains links to Adidas' national websites for ...
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SportScheck has the best online sports store for tablet computers...
SportScheck has the best online sports store for tablet computers in Europe, according to a German agency, Quisma, which has checked out 15 web shops for sporting goods for their features. It is followed by the online stores of JD Sports, Karstadt Sports and Intersport Deutschland. All of them are ...
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Blue Tomato, the large Austrian chain and mail-order retailer of...
Blue Tomato, the large Austrian chain and mail-order retailer of action sports products, has arrived in Salzburg. The company owned by Zumiez, the U.S. retailer, had 17 doors in Germany and Austria. The new one, which opened on Oct. 30, is located in the old heart of the Austrian city and ...
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Hervis Sports, the large price-driven retail chain from Austria, opened...
Hervis Sports, the large price-driven retail chain from Austria, opened its second store in Germany on Oct. 27. Two years after the first one in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the foot of the Alps, the choice fell this time on Nuremberg. The outlet has a selling surface of 1,030 square meters and ...
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Intersport Sverige's third attempt to become a serious bicycle retailer...
Intersport Sverige's third attempt to become a serious bicycle retailer seems to have succeeded. Over the next year, 15 new stores in Sweden will begin selling bikes. The two requirements for stores to be included in the bicycle initiative are that there is room for the products and the appropriate ...
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Asics has introduced its new retail concept with the first...
Asics has introduced its new retail concept with the first “True Sport Performance Store” opening on Oct. 31 in the center of Hamburg, close to Mönckebergstrasse, the city's prestigious shopping street. The new store has a selling surface of nearly 1,000 square meters and intends to offer a state-of-the-art shopping ...
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Asics plans to open flagship stores in Madrid and Lisbon,...
Asics plans to open flagship stores in Madrid and Lisbon, similar to the one that it inaugurated in Barcelona in 2012. The brand already has 12 stores in Spain and three in Portugal including nine factory outlets in Spain and two in Portugal.
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Volcom has opened a store in Stuttgart, its third one...
Volcom has opened a store in Stuttgart, its third one in Germany. The surf and skate brand, which is owned by the Kering group, has already opened four new stores in France since the beginning of this year. It now has 15 physical stores in Europe, the same as in ...
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As planned, Stadium has opened its first store in Germany,...
As planned, Stadium has opened its first store in Germany, measuring 1,800 square meters and located on Hamburg's high-end Mönckebergstrasse
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Element plans to open a flagship store in London in...
Element plans to open a flagship store in London in December
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Globetrotter and Volcom have opened stores of very different sizes...
Globetrotter and Volcom have opened stores of very different sizes in Stuttgart, Germany (more on Globetrotter in the Outdoor Industry Compass)
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Décathlon is still the favorite sports retailer of French people,...
Décathlon is still the favorite sports retailer of French people, according to a recent survey by OC&C, a management consulting firm. The survey, in its fifth year, was conducted on around 6,000 people in June-July 2014. Among sports retailers, Décathlon ranked ahead of both Intersport and the duo Go Sport ...
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Décathlon is planning to open small stores in the U.K....
Décathlon is planning to open small stores in the U.K. with click-and-collect points, according to Retail Week
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William Zhang, a manager who climbed through the ranks at...
William Zhang, a manager who climbed through the ranks at Décathlon in China, has become its chief executive officer in Greater China. He replaces Pannya Khamphommala, who has returned to Europe to work for Domyos, the French retail group's private label for fitness products. The switch was confirmed to us ...
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Salvatore Grimaldi, chairman of Bianchi and its parent company, Cycleurope,...
Salvatore Grimaldi, chairman of Bianchi and its parent company, Cycleurope, has inaugurated a Bianchi store in a prestigious area of Milan, on via Cavallotti between San Babila and the Cathedral. Featuring also a coffee shop, it is called Café & Cycle Bianchi. It is the first of the kind in ...
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SportScheck has opened its second store in Berlin. With a...
SportScheck has opened its second store in Berlin. With a retail area of 4,700 square meters, it is located in the Leipziger Platz 12 shopping mall, which is expected to turn into Europe's largest shopping center, with 135,000 sqm. of leased space.
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Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport....
Original Buff has opened its second store in Barcelona's airport. The first one was opened in Terminal 1 in March. The new one is in Terminal 2 and measures 75 square meters. It offers a special line designed for the Pilgrimage to Santiago on an exclusive basis.
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Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland,...
Top-Sport, a privately owned company with 20 stores in Finland, has warned that it may have to dismiss about 140 of its 250 employees to get out of its financial problems. To this end, the chain's management has started consultations with the personnel and indicated that some stores may be ...
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Cold Mountain, a Chinese multi-brand retailer for surf and snowboard-related...
Cold Mountain, a Chinese multi-brand retailer for surf and snowboard-related items, has opened its flagship store in the youth-oriented Sanlitun Soho shopping center of Beijing. The retailer already has nine other stores in the country.
