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Columbia Sportswear opened last month a special store at Disney...
Columbia Sportswear opened last month a special store at Disney Springs, a new Disney World resort that is nearing completion on Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 5,000-square-foot store focuses on Columbia's new Performance Fishing Gear (PFG) collection. It has an overhead display where 500 fish float in a pool of ...
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Jack Wolfskin has expanded the coverage of its web store...
Jack Wolfskin has expanded the coverage of its web store from four countries – Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the U.K. – to a total of 25 European countries. The choice of languages has been widened, adding French to German and English. Other languages will be added the future. Prices are ...
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Stubai, the Austrian brand of mountaineering equipment, has drawn criticism...
Stubai, the Austrian brand of mountaineering equipment, has drawn criticism for a much-contested sales agreement with a supermarket chain in South Tyrol for a period of eight weeks between June and August of this year. MPreis, which operates about 200 stores in Austria and Northern Italy, has installed a stand-up ...
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Dachstein has launched a new transactional website. It is connected...
Dachstein has launched a new transactional website. It is connected with its registered retail partners, who will get full profit margins if the order is placed by a customer in their neighborhood, unless they don't have the item in their inventories. In that case, the order is directly handled by ...
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Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with...
Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with the opening of its first French Arc´teryx partner store later this year. Five years ago, the Canadian technical outdoor brand chose Chamonix for its Alpine Academy. The fifth edition of the academy, which was held on June 16-19, attracted 360 ...
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Original Buff has opened its first outlet store near its...
Original Buff has opened its first outlet store near its recently enlarged head office at Igualada, near Barcelona. It's the company's second store after the one it opened in Barcelona's El Prat airport in 2014. The company had record revenues of €29.2 million in 2015, up by 11.1 percent from ...
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Arc'teryx has opened its 7th U.S. store in the SoHo...
Arc'teryx has opened its 7th U.S. store in the SoHo district of Manhattan and plans to add two others before the end of the year in Chicago and Toronto
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Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up...
Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up store in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The French retailer's project leader in South Africa, Arnaud Gauquelin, says in an entry on Decathlon's website that the retailer is starting with a pop-up store to learn more about the demand from ...
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Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter...
Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter at the beginning of March, but she was appointed to handle the German outdoor retailer's finance, controlling, human resources and administration as an authorized representative. The change comes after Fenix Outdoor International, the Swedish-based outdoor retailer and brand owner, became ...
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Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...
Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...
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Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called...
Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called the Vibram Athens Academy. This first store represents an evolution from the Vibram Sole Factor trucks, which have been traveling around Europe, offering customers the opportunity to improve the performance of their shoes by choosing a sole from the brand's ...
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Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...
Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...
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Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part...
Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part of the rapid development of its own retail business in North America. With this latest opening, Fjällräven has built up a network of 15 stores across the country in the last three years, which has strongly contributed to the brand's ...
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The Sport 2000 voluntary group in Germany has appointed a...
The Sport 2000 voluntary group in Germany has appointed a new advisory board that better reflects the structure of its membership, where about half of the affiliated 940 retailers are now specialists in team sports, outdoor, running or online retailing. Its so-called Outdoor Profis, who operate 140 outdoor shops in ...
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STMI, the European buying group spearheaded by Groupe Go Sport...
STMI, the European buying group spearheaded by Groupe Go Sport and Hervis Sports, plans to give a further push to its pan-European buying synergies and partnerships with key brands. As a new step, it is seeking to bundle some of the members' private label programs in areas such as outdoor, ...
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Merrell is launching an e-learning program for the personnel in...
Merrell is launching an e-learning program for the personnel in any stores in France, similar to one that it recently introduced in the U.K., and the brand may take similar initiatives in other countries based on the results. In France, salespeople who are handling the brand can connect with a ...
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Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to...
Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to open its 21st multi-brand Alpstation store in the Italian city of Trieste. Excluding those in Munich and Salzburg, all the others are in Italy. There are also three single-brand Montura stores in Italy and one in France, which is run ...
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Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online...
Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online sales, offering products for more than 35 sports. The French retailer says that orders are to be dispatched from a warehouse in Sydney, which will also handle deliveries to New Zealand after a few months. Sylvain Baudens, chief financial officer ...
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Go Outdoors, the large-scale British outdoor retailer, reportedly wants to...
Go Outdoors, the large-scale British outdoor retailer, reportedly wants to open 43 Cycle Concept stores in its outlets in the next three months. Cycle sales have apparently doubled in the stores where Go Outdoors trialed the concept, with in-store workshops and personalized fitting. The Cycle Concept areas should offer hundreds ...
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Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road...
Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road running, trail running and triathlon, closed two of its three corporate stores in the last few months. The Barcelona store, covering 600 square meters, closed its doors at the end of the year, while another store in Valencia, measuring 380 ...
