Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 174
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Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends...
Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends to open six new stores across Europe this year. The Austrian specialty retailer of board sports gear has not named the locations except for the two new stores to be opened in Germany in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The company already ...
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Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to...
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to Asics for the retail brand strategy for its Onitsuka Tiger brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agency has already created the brand's shop windows for spring 2013. The Retaildesign blog gave a “best” note to its booth ...
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Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last...
Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last year, is opening its first company-owned store in Santa Monica, California
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JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five...
JD Sports Fashion has agreed in principle to acquire five of the six Made in Sport stores operating in France and plans to convert them to the JD format, starting in the autumn, according to sport-guide.com. The Made in Sport chain had been created by the Printemps department store group, ...
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Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved...
Sportscheck, the leading integrated sports retail chain in Germany, achieved a gross turnover of about €394 million for the fiscal year ended in February, down by just 3.4 percent compared with its record sales in the previous year. The company said that it still managed to lift its operating profit. ...
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Sportringen continues to grow in Sweden with a new 3000-square-meter...
Sportringen continues to grow in Sweden with a new 3000-square-meter outlet store in the town of Töcksfors and three more stores are in the works
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In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods...
In the 2012 financial year, SportXX, the Swiss sporting goods retail chain under the helm of the Migros cooperative, managed to increase its sales by 2.9 percent to 257 million Swiss francs (€211.2m-$276.3m) before VAT. Given an average deflation of retail prices for the chain of 1.0 percent, the actual increase ...
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Dorel Industries plans to open a 4,200-square-foot Cannondale Sports store...
Dorel Industries plans to open a 4,200-square-foot Cannondale Sports store at Carle Place, New York, offering products from its various bicycle brands
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Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2,...
Foot Locker had 590 stores in Europe last Feb. 2, at the end of its latest financial year, or 5.2 percent more than a year earlier. Globally, its total door count under various banners went up by just 1 percent to 3,335 units. It had 42 franchised stores, half of ...
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Vans has opened a flagship store of 130 square meters...
Vans has opened a flagship store of 130 square meters near the Pompidou Center in Paris
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Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese...
Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese real estate company, China Vanke, to help develop its presence in second- and third-tier cities in the country. The French retailer already has 57 stores in China, and they are mostly located in the larger urban areas, measuring between 4,000 ...
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Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape...
Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape caused by Sport Eybl & Sports Experts' crisis, one of its competitors, Hervis Sports, has announced ambitious plans for expansion inside and outside Austria. The chain, a subsidiary of the Spar food chain, plans to open 10 new doors in ...
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Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel, has launched a new retail format called Runners Point World of Running. It has been implemented in a new flagship store of 500 square meters opened this week in the Thier Galerie, a shopping mall in Dortmund. Described as Europe's ...
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Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50...
Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50 running specialty stores that it wants to have in Mainland China by the end of 2015. They are expected to contribute annual revenues of 1.5 billion yen (€188.1m-$241.3m). Located in Shanghai, the first such store features running stations for training ...
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Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18,...
Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18, adding an additional retail channel for its affiliated retailers. The store at http://www.intersport.de went formally live with Kim Roether and Klaus Jost, the group's joint managing directors, pushing the button and ordering outdoor jackets for themselves. The group has been working ...
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Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first...
Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first German concept shop on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm
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The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has...
The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has received a prize because of its contribution to the renovation of the retail community in the city's ancient Barrio Gótico
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Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the...
Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the Middle East, measuring 250 m², on Kish Island in Iran
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Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the...
Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the next three years, in view of the difficult economic situation in the country, but the company declines to comment. According to another report in CMD, Spanish sporting goods retailers suffered the biggest sales decline in 15 years last year, but some ...
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The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been...
The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been faring well financially, has approved a $220 million investment program for the current year. That is far more than the $163 million spent last year. The money will be invested in various fields of expansion such as the development and roll-out of ...
