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SunGod supports GB Snowsport, POW U.K. and Canyon DHB cycling team
SunGod, a DTC eyewear brand launched in 2013 on crowdfunding site Indiegogo by Zoe Armstrong and Ali Watkiss from London, has announced that it will be supporting the next generation of British snowsports athletes as the official eyewear partner of GB Snowsport. Just a few weeks ago, the young brand ...
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Swiss online trade reports exceptional growth in November
According to the Association of Swiss Sports Retailers (ASMAS), Swiss online retailing increased by 41.6 percent in November alone compared to the same month in 2019. According to the evaluation by GfK in cooperation with the Swiss Post and the retail association, 2020 is now cumulatively 32.8 percent above the ...
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Oberalp Group postpones winter clearance sales
As many retailers had to close their doors for a long time in 2020 due to the pandemic, the South Tyrolean Oberalp Group has decided to postpone the winter clearance sales in its own brand shops to Jan. 30. The management-led family business already approached Anna Ferrino, president of Assosport, ...
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ArticleIndustry Insights: How to find new B2B business in a digitalized market
The past spring created for most of us a feeling of pandemic panic and business paralysis. Offices were shut down and most employees were asked to work from home. From a pure productivity perspective, it gave a temporary feeling of winning back control of time. Time freed up from commuting ...
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News briefsRussia's Wildberries now selling in Israel
Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, has stepped up its international expansion by entering the Israeli market, the company said in a statement. The company will be offering buyers in Israel up to 5 million items from 39,000 brands, including sports products, clothing, toys and household appliances. Purchased items are to ...
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News briefsOn opens tech-driven global flagship store in New York
Source: On Running On Running NYC flagship store On Running has opened its first global flagship store. Located in New York City’s NoHo, the store is designed to become, in time, a “seasonal hub” for runners and athletes. For now, it is serving digitalized personalization. “Hidden gait-cycle ...
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Picture opens three new stores in France
Picture Organic Clothing, the French brand of sustainable outdoor clothing, opened three new franchised stores in France earlier this month. The stores are located in Saint-Etienne (east-central France), Montpellier (southern France) and La Rochelle (southwestern France). In an interview with Sport-Guide.com, Florian Delobre, Picture’s retail manager, explained that the brand ...
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ArticleNew Corona restrictions in Germany; Denmark extends partial lockdown to entire country
In concert with the governments of the individual states of its country, the federal government of Germany has ordered the lockdown of all the brick-and-mortar stores that sell non-essential products, starting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The new restrictions came after a spike in new contaminations from Covid-19. They will last ...
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ArticleOpen Air Group invests in fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan
Open Air Group (OAG), a Stockholm-based group that includes the Chevalier, Tracker, Alaska 1795, Burrel and Valio brands and e-retailers Widforss.se, Widforss.no, Retkitukku.fi and Koiravaruste.fi, is becoming a minority owner of the fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan. Garphyttan develops clothing for outdoor life, work and leisure and has in a ...
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Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021
Alpkit, an outdoor brand from Nottinghamshire, England, has announced plans to open its first Scottish store in Edinburgh early next year. The store, which will be located on Edinburgh’s Causewayside, is reportedly recruiting 12 staff members. In addition to selling gear to hike, climb, camp, run, swim and cycle, the ...
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News briefsLa Sportiva opens brand store in Courmayeur
La Sportiva has opened a monobrand store in Courmayeur, the well-known Alpine resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, in Italy’s northwest. It is the tenth store of the Italian brand, founded in 1928. It will sell all the brand’s product ranges, and not only winter sports items, including products ...
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Pyua opens pop-up store in Munich and extends Sharing is Caring campaign
The sustainable outdoor and snowsports clothing brand Pyua, owned by Spin Capital, a Munich-based investment company, has opened a pop-up store in downtown Munich together with other brands from different business areas, including DIY products, upcycling, handcrafted interiors, art and fashion, under the motto “STOP - for Sustainability & Art.” ...
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News briefsNew Salewa store in Graz
A new Salewa brand store will open in the Austrian city of Graz on Dec. 11. The South Tyrolean mountaineering sports brand, part of the Oberalp Group, is opening its latest flagship store on 85 square meters in the center of the Styrian capital in a historic country house at ...
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EVOC cooperates with Haukland
Two years ago, travel photographer and social influencer Benjamin Jaworskyj founded the photographer’s clothing brand Haukland with the goal to provide photographers and filmmakers with functional clothing that meets all requirements for functionality and flexibility, looks good and is reasonably priced. Together with the German sports brand EVOC, an exclusive ...
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Strong online sales on Black Friday in the U.K.
According to a survey by IMRG, the British online retail industry association, U.K. online retail sales on Black Friday this year grew by 38 percent, with the entire week around Black Friday (Nov. 23-30) showing a 30 percent increase. The survey was based on the daily online sales results of ...
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ArticleShopify reports new records for Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend
After releasing record Black Friday results a few days ago, the Canadian e-commerce software company Shopify has updated its data for the entire Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. The more than one million Shopify-powered brands around the world have reported sales of $5.1+ billion. From Nov. 27 through Nov. 30, total ...
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Record Cyber Monday in the U.S.
Online shopping in the U.S. reached $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday, according to Adobe Analytics. It was a 15.1 percent increase on the previous year and a daily record for online shopping in the country. Online shopping reached $5.1 billion on Thanksgiving and $9.0 billion on Black Friday, setting new ...
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News briefsVF opens multi-brand store in Milan
The VF Group has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and ...
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News briefsShopify reports record global Black Friday sales
Shopify, a global e-commerce software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, announced record-setting Black Friday sales of $2.4 billion from the independent and direct-to-consumer brands on the platform worldwide. The number is based on sales by its more than one million businesses in approximately 175 countries around the world from Nov. ...
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News briefsEOCA Green Friday Fundraiser 2020
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) and 17 of its members are turning Black Friday green by launching an online fundraiser this year. The funds raised will support conservation projects, including EOCA‘s six most recently selected projects, tackling the issue of plastic pollution both in the environment and at source, ...
