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Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during...
Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during the Olympic Games in London, Marmot Mountain has opened its flagship store in the British capital, in the direct vicinity of the Olympic venues. Located in the large new Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, the corporate store features the whole ...
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Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into...
Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into alternatives to traditional retailing and investing in new projects, notably in tourism: While it has been operating mega stores with a selling surface of several thousand square meters in seven big cities around Germany, it is now trying smaller surfaces ...
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Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the...
Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the Oberrauch family, has opened a new, innovative store across from its renovated store in downtown Brunico. Spread over 785 square meters on five floors, the new store is the company's seventh Alpinhaus, specializing in outdoor and winter sports products. It ...
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The Swedish Trade Federation and the newspaper Dagens Handel have...
The Swedish Trade Federation and the newspaper Dagens Handel have named Naturkompaniet “Chain of the Year.” The award, which was presented as part of the 2012 Retail Awards in Stockholm, is open to retailers from all industries. Naturkompaniet, the chain of outdoor stores owned by Fenix Outdoor, won because of ...
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Schöffel and Lowa have opened their second joint store in...
Schöffel and Lowa have opened their second joint store in Berlin and the 12th in Germany. The door, located in a shopping mall called Wilmersdorfer Arcaden, has a selling surface of 180 square meters and will be run by the franchisees Frank and Kurt Rohrmeier. Meanwhile, Schöffel has announced that ...
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Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...
Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...
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Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth...
Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth store to its specialty outdoor banner called Wanderzeit (“time for hiking”). The selling space of 490 square meters is located in a shopping mall in the German city of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony. Kaufhof launched the new concept last spring with ...
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Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...
Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...
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The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation...
The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation with a franchisee in the French town of Annecy. The store has a selling surface of 170 square meters. The opening came after the opening of three shop-in-shops with surfaces between 30 and 140 square meters in St. Lary, Lyon ...
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Schöffel and Lowa are about to open two more joint...
Schöffel and Lowa are about to open two more joint stores in the German cities of Goslar and Regensburg through franchisees, increasing the total number of bi-branded doors to 11
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Last weekend, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the big German specialty outdoor retailer,...
Last weekend, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, opened two climbing areas at once. The 60-square-meter specialty shop in Berlin is located right next to the retailer's Berlin flagship store and is called “Kletterland” (“climbing land”). The opening was packed with events such as the appearance of a ...
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HDE, the federation of German retailers, has awarded Globetrotter the...
HDE, the federation of German retailers, has awarded Globetrotter the prize for “Store of the Year” in the “off-line” category. The prize goes to the chain's big store in Munich, which opened one year ago. The four-storey shop has a selling surface of 6,500 square meters and features various attractions ...
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Vrijbuiter, the Dutch retailer with three megastores for camping products,...
Vrijbuiter, the Dutch retailer with three megastores for camping products, opened a fourth store in Zaandam earlier this month. Sport Partner reports that Vrijbuiter previously acquired De Kampeerwinkel, another camping store in Zaandam, which was owned by Joost Karsten. It then closed down this store and opened a new Vrijbuiter ...
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Salewa has received the “Rosa de Plata” (“silver rose”), an...
Salewa has received the “Rosa de Plata” (“silver rose”), an award put out by the Barna Centre federation for the brand's new store in Barcelona, Spain. The Italian brand opened the store around the corner from the Ramblas, the city's famous street, in cooperation with the local Mañanes family as ...
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At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory...
At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory outlet in the southern German town of Metzingen on schedule, after a five-month trial run. Metzingen is well known as a mecca for smart shoppers in the country, much like Troyes in France. The town is the base of Hugo ...
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Reportedly, The North Face plans to open new own stores...
Reportedly, The North Face plans to open new own stores in Cologne and Vienna
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A group of 17 independent Spanish retailers focusing on outdoor...
A group of 17 independent Spanish retailers focusing on outdoor and mountain sports have launched a manifesto against price wars in this category. The retailers from all around the country appealed to brand owners and distributors to help create healthy competition in the Spanish market, and to protect the profit ...
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Shortly before this summer's Olympic Games, Marmot Mountain Europe is...
Shortly before this summer's Olympic Games, Marmot Mountain Europe is about to open its second corporate store in London. The door will be located in the Westfield Stratford City shopping mall in the northeast of the city, in the neighborhood of the Olympic venues. The outdoor brand opened its first ...
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional under- and outerwear, has opened its first single-branded point of sale on 15 square meters at Shin Kong Plaza, the prestigious shopping mall in Beijing. According to Patrick Lambertz, the company's chief administrative officer, the shop reached a turnover of more than 10,000 yuan ...
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Amer Sports Winter and Outdoor Americas is opening the first...
Amer Sports Winter and Outdoor Americas is opening the first Salomon flagship store in the U.S. in late March. It will be located in the City Creek Shopping Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. It will sell Salomon apparel, footwear and other softgoods, but no hardgoods – customers will be ...
