Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 63
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands to Norway
Source: blue-tomato.com The new Blue Tomato store at Grensen 13 in downtown Oslo. Blue Tomato has opened its first store in Norway. The Austrian-based company, which is part of the U.S. action sports retailer Zumiez, moved into a 425-square-meter store at Grensen 13 in the heart of ...
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A new Absolute Teamsport partner in Germany
Sport Böckmann, a big German specialty team sports dealer based in Holdorf, will become the next partner in the roll-out of the Absolute Teamsport concept, Sport 2000’s new premium multi-channel format for team sports specialists. The long-time Sport 2000 partner will reopen its doors in the first quarter of 2022 ...
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ArticleAnalysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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After losing the Nike and Adidas contracts, Italy’s Sport Alliance boosts its wholesale activities
Sport Alliance, the Italian buying group affiliated with Sport 2000 International, is further boosting its wholesale operations with a contract for the distribution of Cariuma skate shoes in Italy. The brand’s sustainable sneakers are developed and produced in Brazil. Sport Alliance still has one and a half years to go ...
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Sports Direct’s parent eyes record profits after post-lockdown bounce in H1
Frasers Group - the U.K.-based parent company of Sports Direct and other retail chains – said it was on track to post record profits for its full year, after sales in its first half ended Oct. 24 rose by 23.6 percent to £2,339.8 million (€2,736.6m-$3,089.1m). Top line gains were supported ...
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Footway launches ninth e-tail shop, focusing on racquet sports
The Footway Group has launched its ninth specialty e-commerce site, Racketnow.com, which will be selling tennis, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel and other racquet sports products online in 24 countries, operating under the supervision of Gustav Land, general manager of the project. “The ambition,” says Land, “is for Racketnow.com to ...
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Sport 2000 launches the Running Experts Europe initiative
Sport 2000 has launched a new initiative, called Running Experts Europe, to federate the operators of specialist running shops all over Europe, starting with representatives from the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. In these countries, the ANWR Group has bundled the activities of Sport 2000 through a joint company, Sport ...
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Zara to offer subscriptions for on-demand workouts through partnership
Zara has struck a deal with TRX Training, which will be offering Zara’s customers subscriptions to its digital fitness platform, called TRX Training Club, for on-demand and live guided workouts. In tandem, Zara will be selling the company’s signature TRX product, the Suspension Trainer (which resembles a pair of Olympic ...
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Rallye sells Go Sport for one euro
Rallye is putting an end to its involvement in sporting goods retailing with the sale of Groupe Go Sport to Hermione People & Brands (HPB), which is now expected to be completed by Dec. 10. HPB has agreed to pay only one symbolic euro for the business, which is said ...
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Adidas moves into the metaverse, and Ethereum
About two weeks after establishing partnerships with the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the networked-gaming platform The Sandbox, Adidas has announced by tweet three new partners in its foray into the so-called metaverse. One is Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a collection of about 10,000 Bored Ape non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on ...
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News briefsCMP opens its first HUB superstore, taking the place of Nardelli Sport
CMP, the Italian sports brand that belongs to the Fratelli Campagnolo group, is using the space previously occupied at Mezzolombardo near Trento by Nardelli Sport, a well-known store focused on alpine skiing, for its first superstore based on its new HUB CMP Sport concept. About 70 percent of the 1,700-square-meter ...
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German retailers oppose the current anti-Covid measures
Intersport Germany and Rose Bikes are reportedly representing a group of 4,500 stakeholders in Germany that is grouping retailers, trade associations, journalists and economic experts in their opposition against the German government’s Dec. 2 decision to allow only vaccinated people to enter non-essential retail stores. The requirement, which is being ...
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Lids comes to Europe
Lids is opening its first European stores at four locations in the London metropolitan area this month. The leading U.S. retailer for sports caps mentioned the success it has enjoyed with the opening earlier this year of an NBA store that it has been operating in London, in cooperation with ...
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Shake-up in Alibaba’s top management
Maggie We, the long-time finance director of the Alibaba Group, is resigning as part of a reorganization of the group that will also see Jiang Fan, 36, take responsibility for its international operations. Alibaba has not been doing well since its founder, Jack Ma, complained last year about the suspension ...
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Malmö to get Scandinavia’s largest designer outlet village
The Malmö Designer Village in Sweden is purportedly set to become Scandinavia’s largest designer outlet village. The location will put the village within 90 minutes’ travel for some 3.8 million residents in southern Sweden and greater Copenhagen, and within an hour’s travel for 26 million tourists per year. The first ...
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ArticleIntersport Austria enhances services during the present lockdown
At a press conference marking the start of the 2022 winter season, Intersport Austria looked to the future with cautious optimism. On the first weekend of the advent season, the retail group recorded a digital run on all the winter sports articles that its retail members are offering. Alpine skis, ...
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Zumiez continued to grow in Q3
Beating analysts’ estimates, Zumiez reported a 5.5 percent increase in net income to $30.7 million for its third quarter ended Oct. 30 on 6.8 percent higher revenues of $289.4 million. The international action sports retailer’s sales were 9.6 percent higher than in the comparable quarter of 2019, when the company ...
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ArticleThe unvaccinated are banned from Germany’s non-essential stores
In contrast with Austria, where non-essential stores and other public indoor services have been forced to shut down completely at least until Dec. 13, or with the U.K., where people must now wear masks in all the stores, non-essential stores as well as cinemas, theaters and restaurants in Germany will ...
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ArticleSnipes snaps up the Jimmy Jazz chain in the U.S.
Snipes, the sneaker retail chain owned by the Deichmann Group, has agreed to acquire Jimmy Jazz, an American chain of sneaker stores with a hip-hop vibe and headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. The deal was signed on Dec. 1 and should close before the year is out. Terms remain undisclosed. ...
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Infographics & DataTop sporting goods retailers in Asia
This exclusive interactive chart ranks the top sporting goods retailers in Asia by revenues in USD for 2020 and percentage growth in their local currency. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
