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Snowleader named best French outdoor shopping experience
Snowleader appears for the third year in a row in Capital magazine’s third annual ranking of France’s 600 best buying experiences online. Scoring 8/10, the French e-tailer came in first in the outdoor category, ahead of Hardloop and Campz. To establish the list, Capital called on the market researching firm ...
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Grüezibags supports offline dealers with online sales
Grüezibags, a Bavarian manufacturer of sleeping bags, has offered its retailers, who have not yet set up their own online shop, that their customers can order directly from the company’s online shop as long as the physical shops have to remain closed. All the retailer has to do is publish ...
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Sport 2000 launches international online platform
The German ANWR group has presented a package of financial and measures to support its retail members through the corona crisis, and one of its affiliated buying groups, Sport 2000, has outlined some measures of its own. For example, it has decided to accelerate the launch of its international e-commerce ...
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IFH predicts 10-year decline in German retail outlets; March ifo index plummets
(SGI+) The German Institute for Trade Research (IFH), based in Cologne, recently published a report, titled “Trade Scenario 2030,” predicting another large-scale reduction of stores in Germany over the next 10 years. By 2030, according to the IFH, the number of German retail companies will decrease again by up to ...
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Evo uses vacation days to fund hourly pay
Evo, an American multi-channel retailer of outdoor gear and fashion apparel, has encouraged its executives to give up vacation days and transform them into hourly pay for workers on furlough because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far at least 37 of them have made the sacrifice, each donating eight to ...
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News briefsBergzeit wants everybody to stay at home
Outdoor retailer Bergzeit from southern Germany has called on its customers to show solidarity and stay at home to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. “Of course, as enthusiastic mountaineers, it is difficult for us to keep our feet still and not be out in the mountains, in the ...
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Holubar opens first flagship store in New York
Holubar Mountaineering opened its first mono-brand flagship store in New York City that is also home to the brand’s executive offices and an in-house showroom. The brand said it plans to open five new stores in the next two years in North America and Europe each. Holubar started informally in ...
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Columbia closes North American and European stores
In addition to the closure of its brick-and-mortar stores in North America through Friday, March 27 (see our article here), Columbia Sportswear has now also closed, until further notice, all European retail stores owned and operated by the brand. Beyond the closures, Columbia has taken further steps to implement the ...
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Lockdown doesn’t necessarily help e-tailers
The shutdown of sporting goods stores because of the coronavirus epidemic is not automatically benefiting the pure online players. While Amazon says it is recruiting 5,000 more workers in the U.S. to face a surge in online orders, Tradeinn, the biggest Spanish online store for sporting goods, has told CMDsport ...
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Merrell closes U.S. stores
Effective tomorrow, Merrell will close all U.S. stores to limit the spread of Covid-19. The closure is planned until Friday, March 27, but the decision will be re-evaluated and adjusted to the situation as well as local and federal regulations. Merrell also announced that the store staff will continue to ...
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News briefsBergzeit’s new marketing campaign focuses on women
Bergzeit, the German-based outdoor retailer that became a member of the buying group Sport 2000 in October last year, launched a new marketing campaign on March 8, International Women’s Day. The so-called mountain heroine campaign with the slogan “You are a mountain heroine. Always.” was launched for the disciplines of ...
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News briefsVaude’s Second Use Shop launched on eBay
Vaude has recently launched an upcycling store with eBay. The German manufacturer of outdoor products is now selling residual materials through a newly launched upcycling store on the online marketplace with more than 18 million customers in Germany alone. In 2015, Vaude launched the so-called “Vaude Second Use Shop” with ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato to open 50th physical store
Source: blue-tomato.com Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based action sports retailer, will open its 50th store on March 12. The new store, covering 400 square meters, will be located in Ulm in Southern Germany. Blue Tomato opened its first store in Finland in October last year and another store ...
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News briefsSchöffel offers ski clothes for rent
In conjunction with local retail partners, Schöffel started renting ski clothing in Austria and Switzerland this winter. The German brand of functional outdoor and ski apparel says the offer is intended not only to appeal to skiers who seldom or only occasionally hit the slopes, but also to bolster its ...
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News briefsFirst Houdini Reuse store in downtown Stockholm
In February, the Swedish outdoor brand Houdini opened up its first “Reuse” store in downtown Stockholm. The pop-up offers secondhand Houdini clothes in a premium setting. The secondhand stock come from Houdini’s buyback system, in which customers sell back their clothes at up to €100 per item. Beyond extending the ...
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Partial revocation of “Black Friday” trademark in Germany
The German Federal Patent Court (BPatG) has decided that the word mark “Black Friday” will continue to enjoy trademark protection. In other words, the term “Black Friday” remains a registered trademark and may not be used without permission. However, the BPatG also considers that the term “Black Friday” does ...
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ArticleEuroShop 2020: these trends determine the retail business of the future
What are the trends in retail design and retail technology? Which new solutions does the international shopfitting scene present to retailers? Düsseldorf’s international shopfitting trade fair, EuroShop, was able to provide a clear answer to these questions: the more digital the shopping experience, the more important the emotional quality of ...
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Retailer Au Vieux Campeur expands in Strasbourg
Au Vieux Campeur, the French retailer specializing in outdoor apparel and gear, is expanding its retail space in Strasbourg’s rue du 22 Novembre. As reported by sport-guide.com, the retailer saw its sales increase by 2 percent in the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30, 2019, followed by a new sales ...
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Clarella resigns as sales manager of Camp Base
Bernat Clarella resigned as sales director of Camp Base at the end of 2019, after a year in the job. He remains an advisor to the Catalonian outdoor retail chain. Clarella was in the past country manager (Spain and Andorra) for Edelrid, sales coordinator for Garmont shoes and country manager ...
