All Retail articles – Page 31
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News briefsSchöffel calls for solidarity with local retailers
During the current “soft lockdown” in Germany, the family-owned outdoor brand Schöffel has launched a new campaign to support local businesses. With video messages and social media postings, Schöffel is calling for solidarity with stationary retailers. In a commercial, which has been played out via the company’s social media channels ...
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News briefsGet a sneak peek of Haglöfs Restored on Green Friday
Haglöfs’ Green Friday initiative has become known for its commitment to tackle the environmental and social dangers of excessive consumption. In recent years, the company closed stores and webstores on Black Friday, and last year even increased prices, with profits going to non-profit environmental organizations. This year ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter has a new CEO
Source: Globetrotter Andreas Vogler, CEO Andreas Vogler is the new chief executive of German outdoor retailer Globetrotter. Vogler replaces Henrik Hoffman, who, alongside Andreas Bartmann, Ulf Gustafsson and Vogler, remains a member of the management board of the German subsidiary of the Swedish Fenix Outdoor Group. In ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter opens city store in Dortmund
Globetrotter, the German outdoor retail chain, which opened its first store in Hamburg in 1979 and was bought by the Swedish Fenix Group in 2014, is opening a new city branch in the city of Dortmund in spring 2021. On almost 800 square meters of sales space across two floors ...
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Haglöfs expands into Andorra
Haglöfs has opened an own store in Andorra. Located at the Illa Carlemany shopping mall, this is the Swedish mountaineering brand’s first such store in the small Iberian country. Haglöfs’ other own stores are in Tokyo, Japan; Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Chamonix, France; and the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
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News briefsVictorinox opens first Austrian brand store
On Thursday, Nov. 12, the first Victorinox store in Austria will open its doors in Vienna, directly on the historic Michaeler square. In the new brand store, the Swiss company will carry its entire product range. At a pocket-knife personalization station, customers can assemble their own knife and have it ...
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News briefsKingswood Capital completes acquisition of MEC
We previously reported that the announcement of the sale of Canada’s largest outdoor chain with 21 doors, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), to Kingswood Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, sparked widespread discussions and even outrage among Co-op members across Canada. This week, Kingswood Capital announced that it has ...
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Db says „Sold exclusively not here“ to support local retailers
In support of local retailers, Swedish ski and travel luggage brand Db, formerly Douchebags, has launched a new color collection of its best-selling bags, which are not sold through the brand’s website but exclusively through its network of retailers. The Brightside Yellow collection includes 6 models and was launched in ...
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News briefsThe Luis Trenker store in Kitzbühel is moving
The South Tyrolean brand Luis Trenker is moving its store in the Austrian ski town of Kitzbühel to a new location on Oct. 29. The new store is located in Vorderstadt 31 and occupies 180 square meters on 2 floors. The rustic-luxurious interior of the store combines city and country, ...
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ArticleAmazon is up and running in Sweden
Amazon’s dedicated Swedish platform, Amazon.se – which leaked over the summer through a Finnish software developer – is now live. It offers about 150 million products in 30 categories, with free delivery on orders exceeding 229 Swedish krona (€22.20-$26.10). There is a mix of Swedish (Electrolux, Lagerhaus, OBH Nordica, Ellos, ...
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Oase posts good results thanks to camping and outdoor trends
Sales progressed by 32 percent at Oase Outdoors for the third quarter, as the Danish camping equipment company benefited from the increased interest in camping and the outdoors in the wake of Covid-19. Its turnover reached 82 million Danish Kroner (€11.0m-$13.0m). On an organic basis, revenues grew by 34 percent. ...
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Black Friday: Arc’teryx rewards American trade-in customers
To shift the focus away from the mass consumption usually associated with Black Friday, Arc’teryx will for the full month of November be rewarding consumers in the U.S. and Canada who trade in their used equipment with a gift card worth 30 percent of an item’s original retail value, a ...
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Oberalp opens Mountainshop near Bergamo
The Oberalp Group opened a new Mountainshop in Ponteranica, in the Italian province of Bergamo on Oct. 15. The new store specializes in products for alpine skiing, trail running and other mountain sports. It will be managed by Nevio Cornaro, who previously participated in endurance races like the Ultra-Trail World ...
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“German Outdoor Brands” retail training goes digital
In 2019, the German brands Deuter, Lowa and Leki launched joint training courses for their retail partners under the name “German Outdoor Brands.” Since the planned 2020 roadshow with corresponding clinics at eight locations throughout Germany could not take place due to the pandemic, video trainings are now available as ...
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ArticleInterview: Goldwin opens Munich flagship; expects positive business development
Clean, minimalist styling, first-rate functionality and zero-compromise performance – the new Goldwin flagship store in Munich undoubtedly reflects the core principles behind the Japanese brand that started out with knits and ski clothing. Today, Goldwin is still offering a technical and fashionable ski collection, but the main focus has changed ...
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Adidas opens flagship outdoor store in Russia
Adidas, already running many mono-brand stores in Russia, has opened the first outdoor-only store in the country under the Terrex banner. Indicating that it is the first of a chain of dedicated stores, Adidas said it will bring a set of outdoor equipment and gear to the local market that ...
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Blue Tomato with two new stores in Finland
Blue Tomato is opening its second and third stores in Finland, a country where many customers have been ordering from its website for many years. “Despite the geographical distance, Finland has long been a high priority for us; the country has been a very strong and important market for us ...
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News briefsReichmann offers retail and rental hygiene concept and products
Despite the exceptional circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, numerous owners and service staff of sporting goods stores and rental businesses took advantage of the opportunity to prepare themselves optimally for the coming winter season in this year’s service workshops of ski service specialist Reichmann & Sohn in Weissenhorn, Germany. ...
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Bollé Brands launch new digital B2B platform
Bollé Brands has started implementing a new digital B2B program, consecutively in Europe and the U.S., as a service to its retail clients. It involves a new internet platform with clear product descriptions and intuitive ordering tools, supported by an advanced ERP system and inventory management program. Monitored by the ...
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News briefsOrtovox to offer free avalanche workshops at specialist retailers in DACH
In cooperation with selected specialist retailers, mountaineering expert Ortovox is offering exclusive evening workshops on avalanche risk management called Ortovox Avalanche Nights at 13 different retailers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland between October 2020 and January 2021. Together with professional mountain guides, interactive, three-hour courses are held to train the ...
