Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 170
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Reebok has opened a large store and Crossfit center on...
Reebok has opened a large store and Crossfit center on the centrally located avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, between the Louvre Museum and the Opera House. The 800-square-meter Fit Hub on two levels is similar to Reebok's Crossfit studio and store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It takes ...
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Sweaty Betty, the British retailer of women-specific sports clothing and...
Sweaty Betty, the British retailer of women-specific sports clothing and footwear, has opened its first two stores in the U.S. and plans to follow up with another one next year. The first two are located in the Soho district in New York City and in Greenwich, Connecticut. The chain already ...
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Joma Sport has opened its first store in Argentina through...
Joma Sport has opened its first store in Argentina through its new distributor and licensee in the country, KA Argentina. The store is located in Morón, a city in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires.
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Arena is opening its first store in Paris. Located near...
Arena is opening its first store in Paris. Located near Quiksilver's Boardriders Club in the Bercy Village shopping district of the French capital, the 100-square-meter shop will join on Dec. 17 those that it has in Lyon, Toulouse and Marseille. During the week of Dec. 16, people visiting swimming pools ...
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The Swiss section of ANWR-Garant, the international buying group, is...
The Swiss section of ANWR-Garant, the international buying group, is diversifying into the bike sector through a collaboration with Bico, the German cooperative of bicycle retailers in which ANWR has a 25 percent stake. The Swiss members of Bico will become members of the Swiss Sport 2000 organization controlled ...
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Lululemon Athletica has opened a 120-square-meter showroom in Frankfurt, on...
Lululemon Athletica has opened a 120-square-meter showroom in Frankfurt, on the city's Querstrasse. It works with a local crossfit studio and follows openings in the last few weeks on Munich's Holzstrasse and in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin. Lululemon has also opened four showrooms in London and one in Amsterdam. ...
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Karstadt has launched a new format for its Karstadt and...
Karstadt has launched a new format for its Karstadt and Karstadt Sports online stores
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Foremost Golf, the largest golf retail group in the U.K.,...
Foremost Golf, the largest golf retail group in the U.K., has launched a new “click & collect” retail service to help customers who buy on the internet but are seldom at home during office hours to receive a delivery. The service allows the customers who purchased at www.foremostgolf.com to collect ...
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Desigual is launching an online store for its new Desigual...
Desigual is launching an online store for its new Desigual Sport line
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The Danish Sport-Master group, which is no longer a cooperative...
The Danish Sport-Master group, which is no longer a cooperative voluntary group, says it wants to build up the best online sporting goods store in Denmark, connecting it with the 100-plus physical stores which it owns now. The idea is to give customers the same experience regardless of whether they ...
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Hervis Sport is introducing a new multi-channel retailing concept in...
Hervis Sport is introducing a new multi-channel retailing concept in about 50 stores in Austria and a similar number in other countries where the Austrian chain operates, following a trial at its Hervis Future Store in The Mall, one of Vienna's shopping centers. Customers will be able to order products ...
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Intersport Danmark has come to the rescue of a Danish...
Intersport Danmark has come to the rescue of a Danish sports retailer, Sports On Top, which recently declared bankruptcy. Intersport will take over eight Sport On Top retail locations, converting six into Intersport stores and two into Sport Direct stores. Sport Direct is a Danish B2B service for sales of ...
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Totalsport, one of the multiple Spanish buying groups, has taken...
Totalsport, one of the multiple Spanish buying groups, has taken over Team Match, a small group of seven sports retailers operating in the Barcelona area. Based in Zaragoza, Totalsport now has 166 retail members operating 204 stores.
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J.Lindeberg recently opened its second store in the traditional Austrian...
J.Lindeberg recently opened its second store in the traditional Austrian ski resort town of Solden. The store, which is franchised, had its grand opening in conjunction with the recent Alpine Skiing World Cup. According to Sportfack, the Swedish company plans to invest more in sport fashion and to expand its ...
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Under Armour has joined the list of approved suppliers at...
Under Armour has joined the list of approved suppliers at Foremost Golf
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After expanding its unique click-and-mortar retail operation (see our previous...
After expanding its unique click-and-mortar retail operation (see our previous issue), Rossignol will open a 30-square-meter store in French ski resort of Chamonix for its apparel line at the end of this month, with a lease for two years. Similar stores are opening through franchisees in Austria, at Kirchberg and ...
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Intersport Sweden has adapted its loyalty program for mobile devices...
Intersport Sweden has adapted its loyalty program for mobile devices through an agreement with Flatwallet. Members of the Intersport Club can now download the Flatwallet app to validate their membership through their smartphones. Users will not have to carry around all their membership cards as they can get the benefits ...
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K-Way is about to open its first store in Milan,...
K-Way is about to open its first store in Milan, on the premises of a former Robe di Kappa store on Corso Vittorio Emanuele
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Sportalm has opened its second store in Prague
Sportalm has opened its second store in Prague
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SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new...
SportScheck, Germany's largest sporting goods retailer, has opened its new high-tech flagship store in Munich on a net sales surface of 10,200 square meters. The store employs a staff of 250 people and offers some 30,000 different products under 530 brands, arranged by sports category and led by outdoor, running ...
