All Retail articles – Page 31
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ArticleSwedish sports retail sales decreased by 4.7 percent in Q3 2022
The Sportindex, a Swedish industry index produced by the Swedish Sports Forum in cooperation with HUI Research, shows that total sales in sports retail decreased by 4.7 percent in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year, making it the third consecutive quarter with negative development ...
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News briefsSave the Duck opens first U.S. flagship
Save the Duck, the Milan-based firm known for outerwear made exclusively with animal-free and “cruelty-free” materials, has opened its first flagship store in the U.S. Located in New York’s lower Broadway, the 140-square-meter store features a giant orange duck brand mascot. Save the Duck was already sold in the U.S. ...
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News briefsNorrøna opens permanent store at Switzerland's Landquart Outlet
On Nov. 11, 2022, the Norrøna store will reopen its doors at the Landquart Fashion Outlet in Switzerland. After several years of a pop-up concept, the decision is now made after great success to a more long-term project of at least five years in the outlet. As a focal point ...
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News briefsAngling Direct experiences revenue growth despite headwinds
Angling Direct, the British omnichannel fishing tackle and equipment retailer, saw group revenues increase by 1.3 percent in the first half ended July 31, 2022, against the first half of the previous fiscal year, with revenues reaching £38.9 million (€44.8m). Sales on a same-store basis increased by 4.6 percent. Store ...
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ArticleRussia's mass mobilization fuels demand for sports and outdoor products
The Russian market experienced a boom in demand for sporting and outdoor goods since Sept. 21, when the Russian president declared the first mass mobilization in the country since the second world war. The demand for military ammunition has sharply risen in Russia, and the price of sporting and outdoor ...
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News briefsBig gravel bike store opens in Barcelona
Europe’s biggest gravel bike store has opened in Barcelona, according to Tradebike. Located at number 72 of Calle Consell de Cent, Gravel Planet Store has a showroom of 1,000 square meters and reflects some €2 million in investments. The objective is to be racking up annual sales of €5 million, ...
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News briefsSalewa-Vèrtic partnership opens for business
A first Mountain Shop Vèrtic has opened, according to Diffusion Sport. Located in Barcelona, the store is a collaboration between Vèrtic and Salewa Ibérica and follows the multi-brand model of the matter’s parent, Oberalp. Its 400sqm will be stocked with products from Oberalp (Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Evolv, Pomoca and ...
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News briefsPatagonia sues Walmart for logo infringement
Patagonia has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in California against Walmart and retailer and supplier Robin Ruth USA for using Patagonia’s “P-6” trout logo on their T-shirts. According to the lawsuit, Robin Ruth manufactured and sold the garments in stores and online with nearly identical copies of the logo, replacing ...
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News briefsThe North Face is expanding Clothes the Loop program to France and U.K.
The North Face (TNF) has expanded its recycling program “Clothes the Loop” into stores in France and the U.K. The project that was piloted in the U.S. in 2013 and rolled out in all American TNF retail and outlet stores two years later invites consumers to bring in unwanted clothing ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter rents new retail space in Bonn, reuses previous store’s furniture
According to the real estate development company Redos, German retailer Globetrotter will rent a new location in Bonn, Germany, as of Dec. 1, 2022. The two-story building with 2,600 sqm retail space is a former Conrad Electronics store for consumer and professional electronics. Globetrotter is working on a concept to ...
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News briefsPeak Performance opens first store in China
The Scandinavian outdoor brand Peak Performance has continued its expansion by opening a brand store in the exclusive Sanlitun neighborhood in Beijing. In the store, high-tech design meets Peak Performance’s Scandinavian heritage and DNA with a passion for the outdoors in focus. The expansion into China as a new market ...
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ArticleSecondhand market has tripled since 2020, according to new report
The value of the apparel, footwear, and accessories resale market is estimated at between $100 and $120 billion worldwide, nearly three times the size it was in 2020, according to a new study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and global resale platform Vestiaire Collective. The report, titled “What an Accelerating ...
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News briefsAu Vieux Campeur to open a store in Bordeaux
Au Vieux Campeur, the French retailer specializing in outdoor apparel and gear, will open a store in Bordeaux in the spring of 2023, sport-guide.com has reported. The new 1,500-square-meter retail space will be located at the Bord’eau Village shopping mall. Construction work for the new store has just begun. The ...
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News briefsAndalusian bike chain benefits from tourism
BikePhilosophy, with stores in Marbella, Málaga and Vélez-Málaga, enjoyed a year-on-year rise in sales of 30 percent in the third quarter, according to CMDsport. The Spanish retailer’s first quarter fell short of expectations, with a rise of 9 percent, but business has picked up since July, resulting in a rise ...
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News briefsRegatta to open second dual-brand store
Regatta will be opening a dual-brand store in Logroño, Spain, on Oct. 7, thanks to a deal with owner of the local Ferrer Sports store, according to CMDsport. A first dual-brand store opened two years ago in Salamanca through a deal with the local owner of an Enforma Deportes store. ...
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News briefsTernua opens “Brand House”
Ternua Group has opened a 110-square-meter “Brand House” in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, to display to the public representative products from its various lines. In addition, says CEO Jokin Umerez, “we’d like it to be a place we can show with pride to collaborators, visitors and professional customers from elsewhere in ...
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News briefsREI to close its stores permanently and forever on Black Friday
U.S. outdoor specialty retailer REI Co-op has announced that its Opt Outside movement for all employees will be permanent. On this Black Friday and every other Black Friday in the future, the co-op will forgo profits and sales at all stores and instead pay its more than 16,000 employees to ...
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News briefsCake expands operations in Italy
Source: Cake Cake bikes in Milan, Italy Cake, the Swedish manufacturer of premium lightweight electric motorcycles, announced that it is expanding its presence in Italy, making the fashion capital of Milan its local base. A local sales team is already in place, and the Cake pop-up store ...
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News briefsTexaid partners with Ridestore for the retailer’s Renewed program
Swedish retailer Ridestore has signed the Swiss circular services company Texaid as its new service partner. Texaid is sorting, cleaning, impregnating, repairing, relabeling, repackaging, reselling and recycling used merchandise that are part of the newly established Ridestore Renewed secondhand project. Texaid is also a founding member of the European Arm ...
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News briefsArc’teryx opens largest ReBird repair center globally in Boulder
Canadian brand Arc’teryx has opened a new brand store in Boulder, Colorado, integrating a hybrid retail store and service center that includes in-store care and repair and after-sales product support. With three pillars of upcycling, resale, and care and repair, the service center offers circular services, including ...
