All Retail articles – Page 81
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This Thursday, Jack Wolfskin will open its seventh store in...
This Thursday, Jack Wolfskin will open its seventh store in the U.K. at Trinity Square in Leeds on a selling surface of 1,238 square feet. This latest opening follows existing doors in York, Birmingham and the Lake District as well as three stores in London. Jack Wolfskin's most recent store ...
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Kozi Kidz, the U.K.-based brand of functional apparel for children,...
Kozi Kidz, the U.K.-based brand of functional apparel for children, will open its first store in China in a department store in Guangzhou. Another store is scheduled for November in Shanghai. The expansion into retailing came quickly after Kozi Kidz' chief, Tomas Torstensson, picked a local distributor, Providence Trading, just ...
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Salewa recently opened two franchised stores in Austria. The store...
Salewa recently opened two franchised stores in Austria. The store in Saalfelden is managed by Stefan Klingmayr from Kliko-Sport. Another franchised store will be opened on July, 28 in Schladming. Salewa has five mono-brand stores in Austria; two of them are managed by the company itself.
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Barrabès, the big Spanish outdoor retailer based in the Basque...
Barrabès, the big Spanish outdoor retailer based in the Basque region, has inaugurated its first store in Catalunya. Located at 77-79 Calle Roger de Lluria in Barcelona, it measures a total of 1,600 square meters, including a net sales area of 1,000 m².
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SportScheck, Germany's leading multi-sport and multi-channel retailer, significantly increased its...
SportScheck, Germany's leading multi-sport and multi-channel retailer, significantly increased its sales of outdoor equipment, shoes and apparel in its last fiscal year, which ended on Feb. 29. While its total sales increased by 6 percent to €408 million, its sales of outdoor products jumped by 12 percent. The outdoor segment ...
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Montbell, the Japanese producer of outdoor apparel and accessories, opened...
Montbell, the Japanese producer of outdoor apparel and accessories, opened 5 new mono-brand stores in Japan this spring. The brand boasts 75 stores in Japan, one in Colorado and another one in Switzerland. All stores are owned and managed by Montbell directly. Three Montbell mono-brand stores were destroyed by the ...
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Timberland has opened a new store in Chamonix on two...
Timberland has opened a new store in Chamonix on two floors and a selling surface of 108 square meters
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In September, Schöffel and Lowa will open four more stores...
In September, Schöffel and Lowa will open four more stores increasing the number of total doors – both corporate and and franchises – to 16. The new stores will be located in the towns of Siegen, Mainz, Leipzig and Schwabmünchen, a smaller town in the south of Germany, where Schöffel's ...
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Keen has opened its third corporate store in the Japanese...
Keen has opened its third corporate store in the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The shop is placed in a neighborhood called Harajuku in the Shibuya district. The brand has been in the Japanese market since 2004 and currently counts 1,000 retail partners in the country. The third own store follows ...
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Gore-Tex, which opened a footwear store at Amazon.de two years...
Gore-Tex, which opened a footwear store at Amazon.de two years ago, will now also offer jackets and pants of its brand partners in this shop. Gore-Tex wants to strengthen the visibility of both its own brand and those of its partners and wants to give additional advice to end consumers ...
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Globetrotter Ausrüstung is now the owner of six e-bikes from...
Globetrotter Ausrüstung is now the owner of six e-bikes from E-Collection that can be used by the employees at the retailer's headquarters in Hamburg. The idea behind the initiative is to reduce the company's CO2 footprint.
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In September, Icebreaker will open its second TouchLab store in...
In September, Icebreaker will open its second TouchLab store in the Canadian city of Vancouver. The store follows the first one, which opened in the Kitsilano neighborhood in March 2011. The new shop, with a selling surface of 200-odd square meters, will be located in The Village at Park Royal, ...
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Kathmandu Outdoor & Travel, a famous outdoor store in the...
Kathmandu Outdoor & Travel, a famous outdoor store in the center of Utrecht, has opened a mono-brand store of about 150 square meters for Icebreaker in the same town. It will sell a range of about 300 products by the New Zealand wool specialist, the widest offer of Icebreaker products ...
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CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store...
CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store exclusively dedicated to female mountaineers. Called Annapurna and run by two outdoor sports enthusiasts, Esther Ariete and Marga Nadal, it is located at Calle Rosselló 48. It has only 80 square meters of net sales space, but it plans to ...
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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 ...
