All Retail articles – Page 73

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    Odlo has opened a 90-square-meter store on the Grand Rue...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Odlo has opened a 90-square-meter store on the Grand Rue of Strasbourg, France. It is the 20th franchised store of the Swiss-based sports apparel brand.

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    A few weeks ago Dynafit and Wild Country opened a...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    A few weeks ago Dynafit and Wild Country opened a joint store in Arco, the outdoor-centric town north of Italy's Lake Garda, in collaboration with a local retailer, Vertical Sport. Both brands belong to the Oberalp group.

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    Sport-guide.com reports that Chullanka, the French outdoor and cycling retailer...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Sport-guide.com reports that Chullanka, the French outdoor and cycling retailer formerly controlled by Decathlon, is to open its fourth store in Bordeaux next year. The expansion comes after Chullanka was taken over in April by its managers along with two investment companies, Compagnie d'Anjou and Notus Technologies. Chullanka reached an ...

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    The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    The North Face plans to inaugurate its first store in Portugal on Oct. 17 in the presence of João (José Silva Abranches) Garcia, the first Portuguese mountaineer to have reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1999. A year later, after reaching the top of Annapurna, he ...

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    Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Millet has opened its first free-standing store in Paris on the avenue des Ternes, near an Aigle store, taking the place of a former Lafuma shop. Millet will also set up between 10 and 12 concessions in the department stores of El Corte Inglés in Spain and ten in those ...

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    Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new...

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Lowa has opened an in-store shop in Summit Hut's new store in Tucson, Arizona, at 5251 E. Speedway. The collaboration is not new as Lowa has been working with Summit Hut for 19 years. Lowa's corner space features six panels of branded graphics and product display shelves. There is also ...

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    As planned, working through franchisees, Vaude has opened its 15th...

    2015-09-24T00:00:00Z

    As planned, working through franchisees, Vaude has opened its 15th German store in Tübingen and its first one in Belgium, in Liège. They measure 260 and 220 square meters, respectively.

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    Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight...

    2015-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Migros, the large Swiss retail cooperative, intends to open eight more Outdoor by SportXX stores within its SportXX general sports stores by the end of the year. The strategy of installing specialty outdoor shop-in-shops was tested at a shopping mall outside Zurich in March 2014, and then at two other ...

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    Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and...

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Icebug, the highly technical Swedish brand of outdoor shoes and ice boots, has opened its own concept store in Gothenburg. Since it was established in the early 2000s, production has increased significantly every year, and growth has remained at an average of about 30 percent. Last year, Icebug had a ...

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    Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter...

    2015-06-12T00:00:00Z

    Sherpa Adventure Gear has obtained exclusive retail space at Globetrotter in Munich, Berlin and Cologne. The Nepalese brand's sales manager for continental Europe, Wolfgang Jahn, said in a press release that consumer interest and demand have been most encouraging so far. Special displays for the partnership with Globetrotter were developed ...

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    Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding...

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding a “Sole Factor” space where customers can customize their shoes with a variety of Vibram soles. It also features a new gallery displaying more than 150 pairs of shoes developed with Vibram soles since the original “Carrarmato” sole introduced by ...

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    Arc'teryx already has a store in the Covent Carden district...

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Arc'teryx already has a store in the Covent Carden district of London, which is operated by Snow + Rock. Nevertheless, the fast-growing Canadian brand, which is owned by Amer Sports, has announced that it will inaugurate a corporate store in the heart of London in August. It will be the ...

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    L-Fashion Group, the Finnish company behind the Luhta and Icepeak...

    2015-05-13T00:00:00Z

    L-Fashion Group, the Finnish company behind the Luhta and Icepeak brands, has purchased the Top-Sport retail chain consisting of 18 stores in 15 cities around Finland. L-Fashion bought the chain through an asset deal with Top-Sport Oy, which belongs to The Orange Company, a Finnish family-owned entity. L-Fashion said that ...

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    Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding...

    2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Vibram has revamped its store in Boston's Newbury Street, adding a “Sole Factor” space where customers can customize their shoes with a variety of Vibram soles. It also features a new gallery displaying more than 150 pairs of shoes developed with Vibram soles since the original “Carrarmato” sole introduced by ...

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    Rohan, the British outdoor and adventure travel retailer, will reportedly...

    2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Rohan, the British outdoor and adventure travel retailer, will reportedly start selling Bogs' wellington boots in its stores from next September, starting with the Classic High and Plimsoll Herrington models, which incorporate a scent elimination component. Weyco Group, the parent company of Bogs, recently reported a 46 percent sales increase ...

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    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...

    2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong at the end of this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and ...

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    Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a...

    2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Millet has opened its first store in Germany as a temporary shop-in-shop in Globetrotter's store in Frankfurt. The French brand will occupy 165 square meters in the store until Feb. 16, 2016. It will organize a slackline challenge and start a testing center in October. Meanwhile, Columbia opened a shop-in-shop ...

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    Napapijri has reopened a store in Milan, but at a...

    2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Napapijri has reopened a store in Milan, but at a different location on Corso Vercelli

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    Vaude has announced a partnership with eBay in Germany to...

    2015-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Vaude has announced a partnership with eBay in Germany to operate an online shop for used outdoor products. This latest initiative of the brand is part of its general corporate mission to become Europe's most sustainable mountain sports company within the current year. Echoing a similar initiative undertaking by Patagonia, ...

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    Red Fox, the Russian brand of outdoor clothing, continues its...

    2015-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Red Fox, the Russian brand of outdoor clothing, continues its retail expansion outside its domestic market - mostly over the internet for the time being. It launched its e-commerce platform in the U.S. in January and added one for the European Union, in English, during the Ispo Munich show last ...