All Retail articles – Page 18
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News briefsNew CEO for Decathlon
Source: Decathlon Barbara Martin Coppola Decathlon has announced the appointment of Barbara Martin Coppola as the group’s new CEO, starting in mid-March. She will take the place of Michel Aballea, who has held the helm of the world’s largest sporting goods retailer since 2015. The French-based company ...
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ArticleGOA reports 29 percent growth at U.S. specialty independent outdoor retail in 2021
The independent U.S. retail organization Grassroots Outdoor Alliance (GOA) has released sales data showing a significant increase in holiday season sales and a record-breaking two-year sales increase. Compared to 2020, Grassroots members – currently, a total of 99 independent retailers across 196 locations – in the U.S. saw a 29 ...
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News briefsArc’teryx continues global brand store expansion
Source: Arc’teryx Arc’teryx has increased the number of its own brand stores by 15 percent Canadian brand Arc’teryx Equipment opened 21 stores internationally in the past twelve months, ending 2021 with a total of 159 brick-and-mortar brand shops globally. In addition to the new stores, Arc’teryx also ...
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ArticleU.S. retail and experience brand Evo acquires snowsports retail and rental chain Rhythm Japan
Rhythm Japan, a Japanese snowsports retail group established in Niseko in 2005 by two Australian snowsports professionals, has been 100 percent acquired by Seattle-based outdoor retail and experience brand Evo. Evo operates 9 stores in the U.S. and Canada, two All Together skateparks, as well as lodging and travel businesses, ...
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News briefsANWR Group’s exit from Bico has no impact on Swiss Bike Profi
The exit of ANWR Group as a minority shareholder from the German bicycle trade organization Bico Zweirad Marketing GmbH has no impact on the Swiss bicycle trade organization Bike Profi. Bike Profi operates under the umbrella of ANWR-Garant Swiss AG. ANWR-Garant Swiss AG has already been operating in the bicycle ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands cooperation with POW
Austrian boardsports and lifestyle retailer Blue Tomato is expanding its cooperation with the global environmental protection organization Protect Our Winters (POW), established around 15 years ago by U.S. pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and is now also the official merchandise partner of POW Europe. When POW products are purchased through the ...
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News briefsGoldwin opens flagship store in Beijing
With the opening of Goldwin Beijing on Dec. 27, 2021, the Japanese brand is consistently following a long-term global growth strategy. After Goldwin San Francisco (2019) and Goldwin Munich (2020), Goldwin Beijing is the third brand-owned flagship store outside Japan. Goldwin Beijing, placed in the heart of Chinese winter sports, ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato offers online board rental in Austria, Germany and Netherlands
Austrian board sports retailer Blue Tomato has implemented a new board rental system both online and in brick-and-mortar stores in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands called “Rent Your Ride.” To date, 14 stores are associated and offer on-site education, rental, and board maintenance services. The boards and bindings for ...
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News briefsRed Bull's AlphaTauri opens Vienna flagship store
The lifestyle and sports brand AlphaTauri from the Red Bull brand group has opened a flagship store in a prime location in downtown Vienna. The shopping street Graben, where the two-story AlphaTauri shop is found in a former Nespresso location, even has its own website and is around the corner ...
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ArticleTourism-related sporting goods retailers in Austria see winter season at risk
In the 2020/2021 winter season, tourism-related sporting goods retailers in Austria recorded sales losses of up to 95 percent. A study by SpEA (SportsEconAustria) commissioned by the Federal Committee for Trade in Fashion and Leisure Articles in the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) now shows that what was already feared ...
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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 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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News briefsSport 2000 launches Running Experts Europe
Sport 2000 has launched a new initiative, called Running Experts Europe, to federate the operators of specialist running shops across Europe, starting with representatives from the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. In Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux countries, the ANWR Group has bundled the activities of Sport 2000 through a ...
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News briefsGerman Retail Association calls for bold action from new federal government
On the occasion of the inauguration of the new German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the federal ministers on Dec. 8, the German Retail Association (HDE) has called on the new government to show courage and determination. The dynamic development of the Covid-19 pandemic calls for targeted and coordinated political action, ...
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News briefsCMP opens first HUB superstore
Italian outdoor brand CMP, part of the Fratelli Campagnolo SpA group, officially inaugurated on Dec. 2 its new HUB CMP Sport Concept, a new superstore format “that brings together the best brands in the outdoor world.” The first superstore in Mezzolombardo (Trento) is housed in a six-story building on 1,700 ...
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ArticleIntersport Austria enhances service, prepares for second consecutive winter without tourism
At the 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 winter sports articles: alpine skis, touring skis, snowshoes, bobsleds and sleds were ...
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News briefsZumiez Q3 income beats estimates
Beating all estimates, Zumiez reported a solid 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 ...
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ArticleFESI and others object to parts of the changes in EU antitrust commercial regulations
The European Commission has agreed to revise at least one of the new draft regulations and guidelines for VBER 2022 that it submitted for public review on July 9 and that would govern future relationships between suppliers (brands or manufacturers) and their wholesale and retail customers. The Federation of European ...
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OpinionBlack Friday – is this the guilty secret of fashion, but a wonderful opportunity for the outdoor Industry?
The origin of Black Friday was the clearing of dead stock so that the new product, which would reach premium price in the lead up to Christmas present, had room to be displayed. Every product line is meant to sell out, but nothing ever runs that perfectly. Some lines do ...
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News briefsHaglöfs to close stores, webshop and offices on Black Friday
Swedish outdoor brand Haglöfs will not be paying any attention to the top-selling day of the year in order to focus on conscious consumption, not the discount battle for things you don’t really need just because they are offered at a bargain price. Consumption has consequences for the environment: products ...
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News briefsSave and donate during Pyua's Green Week
German brand Pyua, founded in 2008 and a pioneer in functional outdoor clothing with the highest sustainability principles, is offering a 15 percent discount from Nov. 23-29 and at the same time donating another 15 percent of each sale to provide training for seamstresses in the production facilities of the ...
