Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 181
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The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct,...
The British retailer Lillywhites, which is owned by Sports Direct, has opened a new concept on the top floor of its store at Piccadilly Circus in London. The 800-square-foot space is called the London Fight Zone and targets boxers and fans of mixed martial arts. It sells a range of ...
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Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom...
Aigle has opened a new concept store at the bottom of the high-traffic Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The 130-square-meter store is described as an intermediary stage toward a new retail concept that will be presented in mid-2013. A subsidiary of the Swiss Maus Frères group, Aigle already has about ...
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After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an...
After a delay of several months, Go Sport inaugurated an attractive new and more technical, fashionable and entertaining store concept after an investment of more than €10 million in the expansion and refurbishment of its flagship store in the Quatre Temps shopping center of Paris, the highest-traffic mall in France. ...
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Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain...
Asics is preparing to open two high-tech stores in Spain in the coming months. The stores in Barcelona and Madrid will both include the latest Running Lab, which boasts the highest level of biomechanical analysis. Another high-tech attraction is the Asics Foot ID service, developed by the Asics Institute of ...
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Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...
Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...
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ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport...
ANWR, the big buying group for shoe retailers and Sport 2000's licensee for Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, wants to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Garant Schuh + Mode, another buying group for shoe retailers. Additionally, Garant has sporting goods retail members under the Fair Play banner, mainly in the ...
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JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had...
JJB Sports announced that a majority of its shareholders had approved each of the resolutions put forward at an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday. They focused on the strategic deal announced earlier this month, which could see Dick's Sporting Goods acquiring a majority stake in the British sports retailer. The ...
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Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian...
Alfred Eichblatt, managing director of Hervis, a leading Austrian sporting goods chain, firmly denied rumors about the potential sale of the company. He said that any speculations on a sale by its owner, Spar Österr. Warenhandels-AG, was bare of any foundation. Hervis is a successful part of Spar Österr. ...
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Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the...
Oxbow has developed a special new shop-in-shop format with the help of a Swiss agency, Studioworks, to make it as modular and versatile as possible, with a minimum of elements. It uses wood generated along sustainable development guidelines and assembled without glue. The first module was recently installed on 60 ...
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Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its...
Willy Bogner is launching an online sales platform for its Fire & Ice brand of young sports fashion under the domain fire-and-ice.com. At the same time, the company has opened its first corporate Fire & Ice store at Tinnum, on the German island of Sylt, with a surface of 150 ...
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The second Asics store in London, due to open this...
The second Asics store in London, due to open this summer at 527 Oxford Street, will feature new state-of-the-art technologies and facilities. Besides the full range of its running products, the store will also offer a selection of Asics products from the rugby, tennis, cricket, hockey and netball categories on ...
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Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...
Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...
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Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be...
Sport 2000 Österreich has opened what is reported to be the first factory outlet for its retail members within the Sport 2000 International network. With its 2,500 square meters on Vienna's Brünner Strasse, it is also the biggest one for sports products in Austria. The store is offering more than ...
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Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store...
Using iron and wood, Sundek has opened its third store in the Italian sea resort of Forte dei Marmi and is readying to add three other stores, all on the island of Sardinia
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The first JD store in Spain has opened in the...
The first JD store in Spain has opened in the new Serrallo Plaza shopping center of Granada. It is the first concrete result of the strategic alliance formed by JD Sports Fashion last June with Sprinter, the sporting goods retail chain of Estudio 2000 in which it acquired a 50.1 ...
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J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this...
J.Lindeberg is opening its first German store in Munich this spring, and it is looking for other locations in other key German cities. The Swedish brand, which reportedly made a turnover equivalent to around €40 million last year, already has 30 stores around the world, including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kitzbühel, New ...
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Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in...
Sports Direct plans to open its sixth French store in June at Claye Souilly
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The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote...
The German Intersport has launched a web-based campaign to promote Pro Touch, its exclusive label for team sports. The cooperative invites its customers to design their own individual shirts at protouch.de. After various offers over the past two years, Intersport has developed a tool that lets its affiliated members in ...
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After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations...
After opening its showroom in Milan, Bogner is seeking locations for mono-brand stores in Italy
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Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit...
Sportler, the big Italian sporting goods retailer, has acquired Bergzeit (“time for the mountains”), a German online retailer trading under bergzeit.de plus two brick-and-mortar stores in southern Germany. The transaction adds an annual turnover of more than €10 million, which is above Sportler's own internet sales. Sportler has been ...
