All Retail articles – Page 73
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Sport Schuster, the large German sporting goods retailer based in...
Sport Schuster, the large German sporting goods retailer based in downtown Munich, is starting the celebration of its 100th anniversary by closing a shop, a single-brand store of The North Face with a selling surface of 280 square meters. The store, where clearance sales are being held now, will be ...
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Sport Partner reports that Demmenie Sport, an emblematic sports and...
Sport Partner reports that Demmenie Sport, an emblematic sports and outdoor specialist retailer in Amsterdam, has been taken over by Kathmandu, a group of six Dutch outdoor stores. Demmenie, which was a destination store for many Dutch trekkers, was declared bankrupt at the end of November. The takeover will enable ...
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This week, Patagonia is opening its store on Fourth Street in...
This week, Patagonia is opening its store on Fourth Street in Santa Monica, California, less than a mile from the ocean. The grand opening is slated for Jan. 24, including a benefit for the Surfrider Foundation's West L.A./Malibu chapter and the Rise Above Plastics program. The store will sell Patagonia wetsuits, ...
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Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS), which has 69 outdoor specialty shops...
Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS), which has 69 outdoor specialty shops in the U.S., has been acquired by Versa Capital at undisclosed conditions. In 2008, Versa had already bought another American sporting goods retailer, Bob's Stores, which operates 35 units in the northeastern part of the country. Previously called Chrysalis Capital, ...
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Shortly after opening its own TouchLab stores in Seattle, Washington,...
Shortly after opening its own TouchLab stores in Seattle, Washington, and Vail, Colorado, Icebreaker's retail operations have now reached Australia. The first shop in the country is located in the Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne and has a selling surface of 160 square meters. Currently, the merino specialty brand runs ...
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Nomad Travel, the British outdoor retailer, which should not be...
Nomad Travel, the British outdoor retailer, which should not be confused with the Dutch Nomad Company, has opened its ninth store in the U.K. The shop is located in the City of London and is naturally called The Nomad City. The special selling proposal of Nomad is its unique combination ...
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Keen has inaugurated a new corporate store in Portland, Oregon....
Keen has inaugurated a new corporate store in Portland, Oregon. With a selling space of 400 square meters, it is four times larger than the former one, which was just a few blocks away from the new location. The so-called Keen Garage is part of the company's new four-level headquarters, ...
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4Trail Running is the first store in Bilbao dedicated to...
4Trail Running is the first store in Bilbao dedicated to trail-running, and it also has its own virtual shop
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ABS, the German specialty supplier of the so-called avalanche airbags,...
ABS, the German specialty supplier of the so-called avalanche airbags, is going direct to consumers with its own webshop - shop.abs-airbag.de - dedicated to Austrian and German customers. The company intends to integrate its retail customers into this system through the Shopatron platform. Shopatron allows participating retailers to take over ...
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Icebreaker continues its expansion with own retail operations in North...
Icebreaker continues its expansion with own retail operations in North America. The merino specialty company from New Zealand has just opened a 140-square-meter “TouchLab” at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street. Another store opens this month in Vail, Colorado. One more store is set to open in March in Washington, D.C. ...
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Millet has opened corners in four department stores of El...
Millet has opened corners in four department stores of El Corte Inglés, the leading Spanish department store chain
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The North Face has opened a single-brand store in downtown...
The North Face has opened a single-brand store in downtown Cologne on a selling space of nearly 290 square meters. It is the brand's sixth standalone store, corporate or franchised, in Germany. We hear that TNF plans to open another door in Düsseldorf next spring with a possible selling surface ...
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Odlo has opened a franchised store for the first time...
Odlo has opened a franchised store for the first time in Germany in the town of Lörrach, in the extreme southwest corner of the country. The selling space of 180 square meters is run by Intersport Bohny, a local retailer that already operates two single-brand stores for The North Face ...
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Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia....
Jack Wolfskin is opening its first store in Slovenia. The 85-square-meter shop is located in the City Park shopping mall of Ljubljana. The German producer of outdoor clothing, footwear and equipment is focusing on Eastern Europe, France, the U.K., the Benelux countries and China for its foreign expansion.
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In a move that is likely to be watched with...
In a move that is likely to be watched with interest by other sports companies, Jack Wolfskin has issued a warning that it will take more forceful action against retail partners in Germany and Austria that sell its products on internet auction websites in breach of their trade agreements with ...
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McTrek, the price-driven German outdoor retailing chain, has opened its...
McTrek, the price-driven German outdoor retailing chain, has opened its largest store so far in the town of Weiterstadt south of Frankfurt. On more than 1,000 square meters, McTrek's new store offers 700 styles of outdoor footwear, 250 tents and 150 sleeping bags. The full range store carries, among many ...
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Salewa has opened its flagship store in Milan in the...
Salewa has opened its flagship store in Milan in the presence of two of its sponsored athletes, the extravagant Glen Plake, the free ski mountaineering legend from California, and Daniele Nardi, an Italian mountaineer who plans to attempt the winter ascent of the Nanga Parbat in Pakistan in December. The ...
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Blacks Leisure, the large British outdoor retail chain acquired by...
Blacks Leisure, the large British outdoor retail chain acquired by JD Sports Fashion earlier this year, has signed a contract to become the U.K. National Trust's first national outdoor retail partner. National Trust's rangers will be invited to test and review the clothing, footwear and outdoor gear provided by Blacks ...
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Stormberg, a Norwegian outdoor apparel brand, is to open its...
Stormberg, a Norwegian outdoor apparel brand, is to open its first store in Sweden before the end of this year. Stormberg has 25 stores around Norway (15 of them franchised), and it chalked up sales of 254 million Norwegian crowns (€34.3m-$44.4m) last year but it has not yet moved into ...
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The North Face has opened a corporate store in downtown...
The North Face has opened a corporate store in downtown Lyon, on a sales surface of 240 square meters. It is located in the large Part Dieu shopping center, where Jack Wolfskin also has one of its four corporate stores in France. TNF's new store opening came shortly after a ...
