All Retail articles – Page 41
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News briefsGerman retailer Bergzeit donates €15,000 from special sales to social projects
Following the recent adoption of its climate targets for the next few years, German retailer Bergzeit has held its yearly special sale of returned and sample goods in October 2021 at its store in Gmund, Germany. With the commercialization of otherwise unsellable merchandise, Bergzeit supports three social organizations in the ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany unveils ambitious business plan, with cycling and outdoor as key pillars
According to its just-launched 2022 to 2026 business plan, Decathlon Germany aims to more than double its sales to a total of €2.5 billion by 2026. To achieve this, the company wants to transform itself from a specialist sports retailer to a holistic sporting goods platform, according to information from ...
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News briefsFirst Arc’teryx ReBird Service Center opens in New York
Arc’teryx has opened the first ReBird™ Service Center in its brand-new New York City store location on Broadway. As the brand’s sixth store in New York, the Broadway location is the first of its kind to offer Arc’teryx retail sales as well as free product evaluation, on-site care and training, ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter expands second-hand sales ahead of Black Friday, now also available online
German outdoor retail chain Globetrotter, part of Frilufts Retail Europe, a subsidiary of Fenix Outdoor International, is once again hosting its ”Greener Week” from Nov. 22-27. For the fourth year in a row, the outdoor retailer is thus offering a range of sustainable alternatives to Black Friday’s unsustainable low-price sales ...
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News briefsOberalp Group opens Germany’s first Mountain Shop
The South Tyrolean Oberalp Group opened its first Mountain Shop in Germany in the city center of Augsburg in late October. On 150 square meters, the group has created a meeting point for the mountain sports community with its brands Salewa, Dynafit and – from summer 2022 ...
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News briefsFirst Naturkompaniet store opens in Norway
Naturkompaniet, part of Fenix Outdoor’s retail division, Frilufts, and previously only present in Sweden, has opened its first store in Norway in Kristiansand. Another new opening will follow in a month in Kongsberg. Earlier this year, Naturkompaniet had appointed Simon Larsen as head of retail in Norway.
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News briefsOrtovox expands rental service for ski touring equipment in Germany and Austria
Together with 80 retailers in Germany and Austria, Ortovox will offer emergency equipment, Avabag avalanche airbag backpacks and normal backpacks as well as selected clothing for rental in the coming winter season. Which products can be rented from which retailer can be easily queried on the German Ortovox website. Interested ...
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News briefsCake opens first showroom/service center in Stockholm
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake, a member of SOG, is opening its first-ever CAKEsite on Oct. 27, a combination showroom, retail, test ride and service center where customers can physically explore, touch and feel the bikes, take test rides or have their bikes serviced. The new CAKEsite:Stockholm is located next ...
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News briefsDecathlon to open first Swiss “Mountain Store” and plans fifteen more
Decathlon will open its first “Decathlon Mountain” store in Switzerland on Dec. 1 in the town center of Zermatt. The 350-square-meter store will offer the entire Decathlon product range. Other locations in the country are planned, the company said in a press release: About 15 stores in family holiday destinations ...
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ArticleBike-Components joins forces with brick-and-mortar retailers
The German e-commerce bicycle platform Bike-Components (managed by BC GmbH & Co. KG) is launching a new business segment next year: BC Remote is an ordering platform for brick-and-mortar bicycle dealers only. The background to this is that bicycle shops, in times of supply bottlenecks, sometimes search for missing parts ...
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News briefsIntersport opens second flagship store in Salzburg
On Oct. 21, the Tscherne family’s second premium location in Salzburg, Austria, opens with a sales area of 4,000 square meters on Alpenstraße. Intersport Tscherne invested around €6 million in the store, which includes the latest in sports analysis technology. From mid-October, 50 employees will be advising customers on four ...
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News briefsFree matchmaking event with the Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association
The Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association (KOIA), one of the most active and advanced outdoor associations, organizes an online matchmaking event with European brands and distributors as part of the EU–Korean free-trade agreement. The event is a unique opportunity, as Korean companies will not be able to participate in ...
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News briefsBlackcrows opens "Paris nest"
Blackcrows, the independent French freeski brand from Chamonix founded in 2006 by pro freeskiers Camille Jaccoux and Bruno Compagnet, has opened a temporary shop in the heart of the Latin Quarter in Paris. “The Backcrows Paris nest is an urban dive into the Chamonix universe of the brand with the ...
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ArticleE-commerce with strongest growth in Germany in Q3 since 2017
Notwithstanding the gradual revival of public life, and even though the third quarter is considered the weakest of the year for seasonal reasons, e-commerce sales of goods from July to October rose by a substantial 14.8 percent to €22.194 billion, according to the German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association ...
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ArticleOdlo reorganizes its business structure in German-speaking countries
Pascal Schweizer, Odlo’s country manager DACH, is seizing the opportunity of the departure of field sales manager Matthias Faller to reorganize responsibilities in the German-speaking region. Faller is leaving Odlo on Oct. 31 after almost five years with the company. Moving forward, a dedicated sales manager will be in place ...
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ArticleBründl Sports opens new flagship store, carries Marcel Hirscher’s new ski and apparel brands
Bründl Sports’ new flagship store with a net sales area of 2,500 square meters (total size: 5,600 sqm) opened in the heart of the Austrian ski and mountain sports town of Kaprun on Oct. 1 after a construction period of only one and a half years. Above all, the topic ...
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IIC hires a Salomon executive as GM for mountain sports
Intersport International Corp. (IIC) has officially announced the appointment of Denis Levet, who has worked for Salomon since 2004, as the retail organization’s new general manager of mountain sports. The 44-year-old French native, who started his career at Decathlon 18 years ago, will replace Matthias Klopfenstein in the role next ...
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News briefsStrong growth for Haglöfs
Swedish outdoor brand Haglöfs reported a 26 percent sales increase during the first half of 2021 compared to the same period last year. The strong performance is related to well-received product lines and overall higher demand for high-quality outdoor equipment, according to CEO Fredrik Ohlsson. “We had a very strong ...
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News briefsSchöffel-Lowa retail joint venture expands its store network
The joint venture Schöffel-Lowa-Sportartikel GmbH & Co. KG, once founded by the two German outdoor companies Schöffel and Lowa, is strategically expanding its store network. Two new shop-in-shop locations opened in southern Germany on Sept. 16 and brought the joint venture’s sales network to 35 (29 in Germany, 4 in ...
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ArticleJD Sports Fashion’s outdoor segment turns around
JD Sports Fashion reported a record profit before exceptional items and taxes of 439.5 million pounds (€515.1m-$608.8m) for the first half ended July 31, up sharply from £61.9 million in the same period a year ago, as acquisitions, the U.S. government’s stimulus package and pent-up demand allowed it to rebound ...
