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Oberalp Group postpones winter clearance sales
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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Oberalp opens new Mountain Shop in Cogne, Italy
Oberalp opened a new Mountain Shop on Dec. 4 in Cogne, in Italy’s Aosta Valley. The new shop follows the opening of two other Mountain Shops in Italy this year – one in Campo Tures in July and one in Bergamo in October. The store in Campo Turis was in ...
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News briefsA proposal to postpone winter sales in Italy
In an open letter to Assosport’s president, the chief sales officer of the Oberalp Group, Stefan Rainer, recently called for a postponement of winter sales from their usual early January start to the beginning of Feb. 2021 or later, in consideration of the special conditions brought about by the Covid-19 ...
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Burton pilots sales incentive program in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
According to Boardsport Source, Burton has initiated in certain European countries a pilot version of the “Sales Incentive Program” it has set up in the U.S. Employees at its wholesale partners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are receiving a commission, or “cash bonus,” on the sale of Burton x BOA ...
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News briefsOn opens tech-driven global flagship store in New York
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
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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News briefsKlarna and Verifone partner to enable new comfortable shopping experiences in physical stores globally
Klarna, the leading global payments provider and shopping service from Sweden, has announced a strategic partnership with Verifone, a California-based provider of hardware products for payment processing, that will make Klarna available as the first buy-now-pay-later solution to millions of Verifone devices in the U.S. and Europe. The integration to ...
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ArticleNew Corona restrictions in Germany; Denmark extends partial lockdown to entire country
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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News briefsMoncler opens its biggest store in Paris and gets robbed in another one
A band of a dozen individuals entered the Moncler boutique on boulevard Saint-Germain, in the elegant and trendy 6th district of Paris, on Friday, Dec. 11, and stole as many jackets of the brand as they could grab in a matter of seconds. The hooded individuals required the security guard ...
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Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021
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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News briefsDenmark extends Covid-related restrictions for retail and sports
At a press conference this week, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, extended the current, nationwide restrictions until Feb. 7, as well as a partial closure in Greater Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and a number of municipalities in the capital and in Zealand. If there are no restrictions, the Statens Serum ...
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News briefsLa Sportiva opens brand store in Courmayeur
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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News briefsDynafit opens six ski touring parks in Germany and Austria
The ski resorts in the Alps have recorded a large increase in ski touring enthusiasts who have been skiing on slopes for years. For this winter season, experts are expecting further growth because of possible restrictions in winter sports due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Ski touring specialist Dynafit, a brand ...
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Pyua opens pop-up store in Munich and extends Sharing is Caring campaign
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.” ...
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Blacks with U.K.'s first Merrell shop-in-shop
Merrell has partnered with Blacks, a U.K. outdoor retail chain based in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, with stores nationwide, to open the brand’s first shop-in-shop in the U.K. at Blacks Leicester at 46 High St. on Dec. 2. The shop-in-shop features Merrell’s men’s and women’s apparel collection.
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News briefsNew Salewa store in Graz
A new Salewa brand store will open in the Austrian city of Graz on Dec. 11. The South Tyrolean mountaineering sports brand, part of the Oberalp Group, is opening its latest flagship store on 85 square meters in the center of the Styrian capital in a historic country house at ...
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ArticleFrance postpones the start of winter season clearance sale to January 20
The French government has postponed to Jan. 20 the start of the winter clearance period from its initial date of Jan. 6. The clearance period will last four weeks. In radio interview with RMC/BFM TV, the Economy Minister, Bruno Le Maire, added that the measure is aimed at helping small ...
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News briefsTatonka supports retailers in DACH with special pre-order conditions
The German outdoor brand Tatonka is offering all retailers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland special conditions for the upcoming pre-order of its autumn/winter 2021 apparel collection. This will include no required minimum order on a one-off basis and no quantity-dependent purchase prices. Instead, the best net buying price (without further ...
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News briefsVF opens multi-brand store in Milan
The VF Group has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and ...
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Save The Duck supports Doctors Without Borders in Italy
On the occasion of the upcoming Black Friday on Nov. 27, Save The Duck will be donating 50 percent of the proceeds of that day’s sales on its e-commerce site and the physical stores in Venice (Calle dei Fuseri) and Milan (via Solferino and via Dante), which are open to ...
