Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 175
-
News briefs
Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the...
Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the end of last year, according to sport-guide.com. It is located in a recently renovated shopping center at Claye Souilly, anchored by Carrefour, that also accommodates one of the ten JD stores in France. Foot Locker had only 83 stores in ...
-
News briefs
The Sonae Group is placing Berg Outdoor, the private label of its...
The Sonae Group is placing Berg Outdoor, the private label of its Sportzone chain of sporting goods stores, at the disposal of other retailers and distributors worldwide. Since one year ago, it has been making it available to other retailers in Portugal and Spain. Berg exhibited at the Ispo Munich fair earlier this month for the ...
-
News briefs
Schoenenreus, a Dutch discount retailer that sells predominantly sports footwear,...
Schoenenreus, a Dutch discount retailer that sells predominantly sports footwear, was declared bankrupt last month but its business was immediately restarted in a slimmed-down version. The company said that its owners, Synergia, Eric Companjen and Paul Schouwenaar, agreed to invest in the company for the next two years. The deal ...
-
News briefs
After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and Cologne,...
After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and Cologne, Germany, at the end of last year, The North Face will be opening four additional corporate stores in Germany, France and Poland in 2013. In March, a new store directly operated by TNF will be inaugurated in Düsseldorf, to be followed by ...
-
News briefs
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper,...
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper, Andrew Jennings, chief executive of Karstadt, the big chain of department and sporting goods stores, has informed the company's staff about the generally challenging situation in retailing ? which has prompted Karstadt's competitors to reduce retail prices significantly to counter the ...
-
News briefs
Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012...
Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012 retail sales, which we reported in December on a preliminary basis. In the end, the affiliated retailers increased their sales by 2.2 percent to €2.76 billion after VAT. According to Klaus Jost, joint president of the group, the last two ...
-
News briefs
One of the major sporting goods retailers in Brazil, Grupo...
One of the major sporting goods retailers in Brazil, Grupo Paquetá, plans to raise the number of its sporting goods stores, called Paquetá Esportes, from 35 to 50 by the end of 2014. Coinciding with the football World Cup, which will be held in Brazil next year, the program includes ...
-
News briefs
Fredrik Andreasson, chief executive of Team Sportia, the third-largest sports...
Fredrik Andreasson, chief executive of Team Sportia, the third-largest sports retail group in Sweden, is leaving the company, it was reported by Sportfack this Friday. Andreasson has spent more than three years at the helm of Team Sportia, a buying group with 127 stores. Team Sportia reinforced its market share ...
-
News briefs
Planet Sports, the leading multi-brand sports retailer in India, has...
Planet Sports, the leading multi-brand sports retailer in India, has inked a deal to become the exclusive Indian distributor of Pluggers, an Australian brand of thongs. India is the first country where the hip Pluggers brands will be distributed outside Australia. The tie-up was revealed earlier this month at an ...
-
News briefs
Nico van Offeren, former head of Intersport Nederland, has teamed...
Nico van Offeren, former head of Intersport Nederland, has teamed up with another specialist to launch Friends of Retail, a consultancy focusing on sports retailing. His partner is André Wierper, whose career includes stints at Salomon, the Euro Shoe Group and Intersport Nederland. They will offer advice on such issues ...
-
News briefs
Sport Schuster, the large Munich-based downtown retailer, is starting the...
Sport Schuster, the large Munich-based downtown retailer, is starting the celebration of its 100th anniversary by closing a shop, a single-brand store of The North Face with a selling surface of 280 square meters. The store, where clearance sales are being held now, will be taken over by the brand's ...
-
Short stops
Giant has inaugurated its first store in Spain, located in...
Giant has inaugurated its first store in Spain, located in Madrid's Paseo de la Castellana
-
News briefs
Moncler is opening its second German store on Frankfurt's famous...
Moncler is opening its second German store on Frankfurt's famous Goethestrasse, taking the total number of single-brand stores around the world up to 90. The Italian brand of down-filled outerwear opened a store in Bel Harbour, Florida, in December. It is about to open a shop in Istanbul.
-
Short stops
Rip Curl has opened a new urban store in Ubud,...
Rip Curl has opened a new urban store in Ubud, Bali
-
Short stops
Le Coq Sportif has opened its first Spanish store in...
Le Coq Sportif has opened its first Spanish store in Barcelona, measuring 350 square meters on two floors, at 6 Calle Boters
-
News briefs
The Indian newspaper Business Standard reports that Décathlon has reacted...
The Indian newspaper Business Standard reports that Décathlon has reacted to the new rules on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian retailing by applying for a permit to open full-fledged retail stores in the country, instead of the cash & carry business that Décathlon has been running in India for ...
-
News briefs
JD Pro, the new performance-oriented chain of sporting goods stores...
JD Pro, the new performance-oriented chain of sporting goods stores being launched by JD Sports Fashion, is not going to work with Intersport International on branding, private label or exclusive products. Negotiations were held in the past few weeks to no avail. Intersport officials declined to comment, but it would ...
-
News briefs
Rossignol is partnering with AdVentori, a cross-channel marketing agency in...
Rossignol is partnering with AdVentori, a cross-channel marketing agency in Paris, to raise the number of customers in physical stores through the internet. AdVentori had already launched a pilot store-locator system via mobile phone, which was launched at the end of 2011 for the Rossignol, Dynastar, and Lange brands. Based on ...
-
News briefs
With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL...
With a new location in the town of Uppsala, XXL Sport has now opened its ninth store in Sweden. In 2012 alone, the Norwegian retailer has opened four of its megastores in the country. It wants to end up with six or seven stores in the Stockholm area and four ...
-
Short stops
Lafuma has opened a temporary store for its Killy line...
Lafuma has opened a temporary store for its Killy line in the French town of Annecy
