News Briefs – Page 10
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Salewa opens store in Verona
The Italian Oberalp Group has opened a Salewa store in Verona on April 9. The 120-square-meter shop is located at Via Cappello 41, within walking distance of the Romeo and Juliet balcony, a well-known destination for Veronese and tourists alike. The store is designed both for mountain enthusiasts ...
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Uvex Group opens online brand shop
The German Uvex Group is further developing its digital business models and opening an online brand store for end consumers that carries all Uvex Group brands and their B2C-ready assortment. This includes sports and leisure equipment from Uvex and Alpina, as well as safety products for the ...
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Maier Sports' webshop now shows product availability at local stores
With the start of spring, German outdoor brand Maier Sports has updated its website maier-sports.com and included a new function that allows the consumer to choose freely between a web order or buying at a brick-and-mortar retailer. If the user decides to buy at the store, he or ...
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News briefsInov-8 opens first flagship store
Under the expert guidance of British running specialist Pete Bland Sports, Inov-8 is planning to open its very first flagship store on April 15, located right next to the brand’s headquarters. The 90-square-meter store will be called “The Forge” and is located in the Mill Yard in Staveley, a village ...
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News briefsPolygiene introduces ViralOff spray-on protection
Source: Colors/Polygiene An Italian company called Colors has channeled Polygiene ’s ViralOff antimicrobial treatment into a consumer product line. The Regenesis ViralOff Trigger Shield line of sprays and other products works on soft and hard surfaces as well as fabrics. It meets the ...
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News briefsNew Rose Store in Cologne launches with new retail space concept
Rose Bikes , which has transformed itself from a BTC to an omnichannel provider, plans to open its sixth store in May in Cologne - first with a pop-up space only, followed by a grand opening in August, Covid regulations permitting. The two-story Rose Store in downtown Cologne will ...
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News briefsPorta appointed permanent CEO of Hunter Boots
British brand Hunter Boots has confirmed Paolo Porta as permanent CEO. Porta has held the position on an interim basis since replacing Vincent Wauters in June 2020. Prior to joining Hunter, he was senior vice president of merchandising and licensing at Jimmy Choo . Before that, he ...
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News briefsPOC expands e-tail and marketing team
Source: POC Lukas Malgay Lukas Malgay has been supporting the e-tail and digital team of Swedish brand POC as online account manager Europe since March 1. For the past three and a half years, Malgay worked in sales sales marketing for ...
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News briefsBergzeit appoints new marketing director
Source: Bergzeit Thorsten Eder Thorsten Eder has taken over as head of marketing at German multisport retailer Bergzeit . He succeeds Sara Hallbauer , who will leave the company at her own request at the end of March. Eder will lead a 30-person marketing ...
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News briefsPoison Bikes under new ownership
German DTC bicycle supplier Poison Bikes has a new owner. Company founder, owner and previously sole managing director Hans Werner Theisen has sold his bicycle manufactory to entrepreneur Thomas Wiesel for an undisclosed amount. Theisen will remain active in the company and run the business together with ...
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Swiss online retail grows almost 30%
According to a study conducted by Handelsverband.swiss in collaboration with GfK and Swiss Post , online retail in Switzerland grew extraordinarily due to the Corona regulations, making a three-year leap in 2020. Swiss consumers purchased goods and merchandise online for CHF 13.1 billion (€11.82bn-$14.17bn), an increase of CHF ...
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Canada Goose to open fifth EU brand store
Following its first German brand store in Berlin last year, Canada Goose is now ready to open its second store in the coming weeks, corona regulations permitting, in Frankfurt. The store will span two floors at Frankfurt’s downtown Rathenauplatz and will be the fifth Canada Goose store in Europe ...
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Edelrid launches new B2B and B2C information platforms
Edelrid , a specialist in alpine and professional climbing equipment based in Southwest Germany, is going online with a comprehensive new offering for information and training around its products. The digital Brand Room for retailers, which spearheads Edelrid’s digital offensive, is service-oriented and “focused on real life-questions.” It features ...
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News briefsAKU reintegrates German-speaking customer service into Italian team
Italian footwear company AKU is moving all customer service for German-speaking countries to the company’s headquarters in Montebelluna, Italy, effective March 1. All dealer inquiries such as customer care, order and delivery information, product information and order processing will now be handled and decided directly by the headquarters. According ...
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NPD Group names winners of inaugural Outdoor Sports Industry Performance Awards
The NPD Group has announced the winners of its first Outdoor Sports Industry Performance Awards . The awards recognize the fastest-growing brands of 2020 in key outdoor categories in the U.S., including snowsports equipment. This is according to NPD’s Retail Tracking Service , which collects data from more than ...
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News briefsWildberries launches in France, Italy and Spain
After rolling out its online store in Germany in January, Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries , has started to operate in France, Italy and Spain, with dedicated sites and mobile apps tailored to the local markets, the company said in a statement. The online retailer that first launched in ...
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New trade body in the U.K. to support digital retail
Six major U.K.-based e-tailers – Asos , Boohoo , Gymshark , the Ocado Group , AO World and The Hut Group (THG) – have launched the UK Digital Business Association (UKDBA) , a new trade body to support the fast-growing e-commerce sector. The new association will back the ...
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Merger of two Danish bicycle retailers
Design Cykler , a Danish bicycle retailer based in Skive, Jutland, with eight physical stores in major cities, and Cykelpartner.dk are merging to form DCCP Group A/S . Kenneth Mortensen , the newly appointed director of DCCP, said in a press release, “It takes two to tango, and ...
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News briefsNew addition to H.A.D.’s digital marketing team
Source: Linn Poppen Linn Poppen has joined the team of the German brand Pro Feet Functional Wear as digital marketing sales manager. Poppen joins Pro Feet from competitor Buff / Elan Central Europe , where she spent the last four years ...
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Schöffel Foundation plants 30,000 trees
Peter Schöffel, CEO Schöffel The reduction of the VAT in Germany in the second half of 2020 was intended to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic. But it also made possible a sustainability project by the Schöffel Foundation , which was established in 2011 to ...
