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    Wildberries launches German online store

    19 January 2021

    Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, has just rolled out its online store in Germany. Germany brings the number of markets in which the company operates up to ten. Wildberries began its expansion in Europe in 2020, starting with an online store in Poland. Most recently, it also entered the Israeli ...

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    Bergans to open new brand store in Trondheim

    13 January 2021

    Bergans of Norway will open a new brand store in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Anett Kolstad, the brand’s retail director, said that she has been looking for a vacant retail space in the city for quite some time and has now found what she says is “the perfect venue” ...

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    Danish retail chain Eventyrsport acquires stake in outdoor experience portal

    13 January 2021

    Danish outdoor chain Eventyrsport, which operates 13 physical stores and an online store that is also available in Swedish, has bought into Outdoor365 ApS, a Danish outdoor experience portal. Outdoor365 has organized the country’s largest outdoor festival in Ry since 2015 and last year launched an online portal where users ...

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    Blue Tomato hit hard by store closures

    13 January 2021

    Blue Tomato was hit hard by Covid-19-related store closures in Europe in the 10 weeks leading up to Jan. 9, according to its U.S.-based parent Zumiez. However, the group’s Australian action sports retail chain, Fast Times, performed “extremely well.” Bottom line, the group’s international sales declined 6.7 percent in dollars ...

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    CMP opens three new European stores

    12 January 2021

    CMP is opening three new stores in the European ski resorts of Avoriaz and Tignes in France and Rottach Egern in Germany. The Italian brand, part of F.lli Campagnolo group, already has a store in France, in Chamonix, while the new shop in Rottach Egern is CMP’s first in Germany.

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    A quarter of German online shoppers are looking for more sustainable purchases

    5 January 2021

    A recent representative survey conducted by the opinion research company Civey on behalf of the German E-Commerce and Mail Order Retail Association (bevh) has revealed that a quarter of the German online shoppers are consciously looking for sustainable shopping offers on the Internet. According to bevh, sustainable packaging is essential ...

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    Who are the winners of the Corona summer?

    4 January 2021

    The outdoor industry and tourism associations weathered the first Corona summer quite well. Some hiking and biking equipment suppliers were even able to record double-digit growth rates compared to the previous year. However, things are now looking rather bleak for the first few months of the coming year.

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    UK online marketplace OnBuy with New Year’s Day price crash event ahead of global rollout

    31 December 2020

    OnBuy, a U.K. online marketplace launched in November 2016, has announced a £50 million price crash event for New Year’s Day. The marketplace, which offers products in 17 categories, including sports & outdoor, will reduce all seller fees so that every single one of the more than 30 million items ...

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    SunGod supports GB Snowsport, POW U.K. and Canyon DHB cycling team

    30 December 2020

    SunGod, a DTC eyewear brand launched in 2013 on crowdfunding site Indiegogo by Zoe Armstrong and Ali Watkiss from London, has announced that it will be supporting the next generation of British snowsports athletes as the official eyewear partner of GB Snowsport. Just a few weeks ago, the young brand ...

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    Swiss online trade reports exceptional growth in November

    30 December 2020

    According to the Association of Swiss Sports Retailers (ASMAS), Swiss online retailing increased by 41.6 percent in November alone compared to the same month in 2019. According to the evaluation by GfK in cooperation with the Swiss Post and the retail association, 2020 is now cumulatively 32.8 percent above the ...

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    ​Oberalp Group postpones winter clearance sales

    24 December 2020

    As many retailers had to close their doors for a long time in 2020 due to the pandemic, the South Tyrolean Oberalp Group has decided to postpone the winter clearance sales in its own brand shops to Jan. 30. The management-led family business already approached Anna Ferrino, president of Assosport, ...

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    ​Industry Insights: How to find new B2B business in a digitalized market

    22 December 2020

    The past spring created for most of us a feeling of pandemic panic and business paralysis. Offices were shut down and most employees were asked to work from home. From a pure productivity perspective, it gave a temporary feeling of winning back control of time. Time freed up from commuting ...

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    Russia's Wildberries now selling in Israel

    18 December 2020

    Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, has stepped up its international expansion by entering the Israeli market, the company said in a statement. The company will be offering buyers in Israel up to 5 million items from 39,000 brands, including sports products, clothing, toys and household appliances. Purchased items are to ...

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    On opens tech-driven global flagship store in New York

    18 December 2020

    Source: On Running On Running NYC flagship store On Running has opened its first global flagship store. Located in New York City’s NoHo, the store is designed to become, in time, a “seasonal hub” for runners and athletes. For now, it is serving digitalized personalization. “Hidden gait-cycle ...

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    Picture opens three new stores in France

    17 December 2020

    Picture Organic Clothing, the French brand of sustainable outdoor clothing, opened three new franchised stores in France earlier this month. The stores are located in Saint-Etienne (east-central France), Montpellier (southern France) and La Rochelle (southwestern France). In an interview with Sport-Guide.com, Florian Delobre, Picture’s retail manager, explained that the brand ...

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    New Corona restrictions in Germany; Denmark extends partial lockdown to entire country

    16 December 2020

    In concert with the governments of the individual states of its country, the federal government of Germany has ordered the lockdown of all the brick-and-mortar stores that sell non-essential products, starting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The new restrictions came after a spike in new contaminations from Covid-19. They will last ...

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    Open Air Group invests in fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan

    15 December 2020

    Open Air Group (OAG), a Stockholm-based group that includes the Chevalier, Tracker, Alaska 1795, Burrel and Valio brands and e-retailers Widforss.se, Widforss.no, Retkitukku.fi and Koiravaruste.fi, is becoming a minority owner of the fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan. Garphyttan develops clothing for outdoor life, work and leisure and has in a ...

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    Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021

    14 December 2020

    Alpkit, an outdoor brand from Nottinghamshire, England, has announced plans to open its first Scottish store in Edinburgh early next year. The store, which will be located on Edinburgh’s Causewayside, is reportedly recruiting 12 staff members. In addition to selling gear to hike, climb, camp, run, swim and cycle, the ...

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    La Sportiva opens brand store in Courmayeur

    10 December 2020

    La Sportiva has opened a monobrand store in Courmayeur, the well-known Alpine resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, in Italy’s northwest. It is the tenth store of the Italian brand, founded in 1928. It will sell all the brand’s product ranges, and not only winter sports items, including products ...

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    ​Pyua opens pop-up store in Munich and extends Sharing is Caring campaign

    9 December 2020

    The sustainable outdoor and snowsports clothing brand Pyua, owned by Spin Capital, a Munich-based investment company, has opened a pop-up store in downtown Munich together with other brands from different business areas, including DIY products, upcycling, handcrafted interiors, art and fashion, under the motto “STOP - for Sustainability & Art.” ...