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    Original Buff has opened its first outlet store near its...

    2016-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Original Buff has opened its first outlet store near its recently enlarged head office at Igualada, near Barcelona. It's the company's second store after the one it opened in Barcelona's El Prat airport in 2014. The company had record revenues of €29.2 million in 2015, up by 11.1 percent from ...

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    Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with...

    2016-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Arc'teryx is stepping up its long-term relationships with Chamonix with the opening of its first French Arc´teryx partner store later this year. Five years ago, the Canadian technical outdoor brand chose Chamonix for its Alpine Academy. The fifth edition of the academy, which was held on June 16-19, attracted 360 ...

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    Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Fjällräven has opened a store in Portland, Oregon, as part of the rapid development of its own retail business in North America. With this latest opening, Fjällräven has built up a network of 15 stores across the country in the last three years, which has strongly contributed to the brand's ...

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    Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Norrøna has opened a store in Chamonix, France. The investment was described as the first move in a new strategy to expand the company's retail network away from the saturated Norwegian market. It is also part of a plan to double the company's total sales by 2020. Last year, Norrøna's ...

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    Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Vibram has opened its first flagship store in Athens, called the Vibram Athens Academy. This first store represents an evolution from the Vibram Sole Factor trucks, which have been traveling around Europe, offering customers the opportunity to improve the performance of their shoes by choosing a sole from the brand's ...

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    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has announced the opening of its first two stand-alone stores this coming autumn. The stores are set to open on New York's Wooster Street, in the heart of SoHo, and in the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Each store, covering a surface of more than 4,000 square feet, ...

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    Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Angela Rux has stepped down as managing director at Globetrotter at the beginning of March, but she was appointed to handle the German outdoor retailer's finance, controlling, human resources and administration as an authorized representative. The change comes after Fenix Outdoor International, the Swedish-based outdoor retailer and brand owner, became ...

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    Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon has opened business in South Africa with a pop-up store in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The French retailer's project leader in South Africa, Arnaud Gauquelin, says in an entry on Decathlon's website that the retailer is starting with a pop-up store to learn more about the demand from ...

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    Arc'teryx has opened its 7th U.S. store in the SoHo...

    2016-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Arc'teryx has opened its 7th U.S. store in the SoHo district of Manhattan and plans to add two others before the end of the year in Chicago and Toronto

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    Merrell is launching an e-learning program for the personnel in...

    2016-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Merrell is launching an e-learning program for the personnel in any stores in France, similar to one that it recently introduced in the U.K., and the brand may take similar initiatives in other countries based on the results. In France, salespeople who are handling the brand can connect with a ...

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    STMI, the European buying group spearheaded by Groupe Go Sport...

    2016-05-12T00:00:00Z

    STMI, the European buying group spearheaded by Groupe Go Sport and Hervis Sports, plans to give a further push to its pan-European buying synergies and partnerships with key brands. As a new step, it is seeking to bundle some of the members' private label programs in areas such as outdoor, ...

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    The Sport 2000 voluntary group in Germany has appointed a...

    2016-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The Sport 2000 voluntary group in Germany has appointed a new advisory board that better reflects the structure of its membership, where about half of the affiliated 940 retailers are now specialists in team sports, outdoor, running or online retailing. Its so-called Outdoor Profis, who operate 140 outdoor shops in ...

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    The North Face has reportedly leased a space of nearly...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The North Face has reportedly leased a space of nearly 20,000 square feet on Fifth Avenue at 43rd Street in New York City for its flagship store in the Big Apple. TNF already has two other smaller stores in the Upper West Side and Soho districts of Manhattan.

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    The first Decathlon store in Slovenia is due to open...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The first Decathlon store in Slovenia is due to open this week on 2,700 square meters in Ljubljana - the capital city. The company says it has been leaning on its teams in neighboring countries for the opening, particularly in Italy, Croatia and Hungary. The store manager is from the ...

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    Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road running, trail running and triathlon, closed two of its three corporate stores in the last few months. The Barcelona store, covering 600 square meters, closed its doors at the end of the year, while another store in Valencia, measuring 380 ...

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    Go Outdoors, the large-scale British outdoor retailer, reportedly wants to...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Go Outdoors, the large-scale British outdoor retailer, reportedly wants to open 43 Cycle Concept stores in its outlets in the next three months. Cycle sales have apparently doubled in the stores where Go Outdoors trialed the concept, with in-store workshops and personalized fitting. The Cycle Concept areas should offer hundreds ...

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    Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Decathlon has also moved into the Australian market with online sales, offering products for more than 35 sports. The French retailer says that orders are to be dispatched from a warehouse in Sydney, which will also handle deliveries to New Zealand after a few months. Sylvain Baudens, chief financial officer ...

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    Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to...

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Tasci, the Italian parent company of Montura, is about to open its 21st multi-brand Alpstation store in the Italian city of Trieste. Excluding those in Munich and Salzburg, all the others are in Italy. There are also three single-brand Montura stores in Italy and one in France, which is run ...

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    The fate of Perry Sport remained uncertain as of yesterday,...

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The fate of Perry Sport remained uncertain as of yesterday, after the generalist Dutch sports retailer was declared bankrupt on Feb. 23. Perry Sport is a major account for some outdoor brands, with 70 stores around the Netherlands. Toni van Hees, who was appointed to handle the receivership, started holding ...

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    Vaude, the German outdoor brand, has teamed up with Commerce...

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Vaude, the German outdoor brand, has teamed up with Commerce Connector to lead consumers from its website to physical stores in Germany. From August, the Vaude website will tell consumers which nearby store has the product they want to buy, along with detailed information about the store's location and opening ...