All Retail articles – Page 54
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Vaude opened a new flagship store in Guangzhou, China last...
Vaude opened a new flagship store in Guangzhou, China last May. The store, covering 600 m², is one of the largest mono-brand outdoor stores in China. It will serve as a prototype for other retail stores of Vaude. Another 30-50 mono-brand retail spaces are planned in China for 2013 with ...
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In October, Icebreaker will open a new corporate store, called...
In October, Icebreaker will open a new corporate store, called TouchLab, in Chicago on a retail area of about 200 square meters. The store will be located in the shopping area of GoldCoast Magnificient Mile, not far away from doors of Lululemon, Patagonia and Burton. Currently, the merino wool brand ...
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Keen has opened a store in...
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Keen has opened a store in Palo Alto, California, close to the location where the company was founded. The 2,800-square-foot store is the brand's fourth ‘Keen Garage' store in the world and the second one in the U.S, aside from the Keen store being opened in ...
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Keen has opened its third single-brand store worldwide in Prague...
Keen has opened its third single-brand store worldwide in Prague on a selling area of 230 square meters. Like the other two doors, it is operated by the U.S. footwear company's Czech distributor, Outdoor Concept. The new shop is located in Zli?in, a shopping mall described as one of the ...
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In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second...
In the middle of July, Lundhags will open its second factory outlet store in Insjøn, Sweden. It will have three different areas for Lundhags own products, external brands and an outlet section. The company's first store in Järpen, Sweden has turned into something of a destination store and the same ...
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The North Face opened a new partner store in Vienna...
The North Face opened a new partner store in Vienna on April 26. The store, which measures 75 sqm and is situated in 'The Mall,' a shopping center in downtown Vienna, is the third partner store of TNF in Austria. It is managed by the Stefan + Reiter Group in ...
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A group of Spanish entrepreneurs has launched Outdooing.com, described as...
A group of Spanish entrepreneurs has launched Outdooing.com, described as the first website that customers can use to buy and sell products related to outdoor sports at interesting prices. The initiative comes at a time where the consumption of all kinds of products is suffering in Spain because of a ...
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A new design and visual merchandising concept has been adopted...
A new design and visual merchandising concept has been adopted by Bever Outdoor & Travel, the Dutch specialty outdoor retailer. Designed by Storeage, an Amsterdam-based retail design and strategy agency, it has been implemented in a premium Bever store in Rotterdam and will be rolled out to other stores of ...
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Last year, Oxylane, the group that owns Décathlon, reached total sales of...
Last year, Oxylane, the group that owns Décathlon, reached total sales of €7 billion, corresponding to an increase of 7.2 percent compared with 2011. On a comparable store basis, the turnover went up by 1.3 percent. After its entry into Taiwan with one point of sale last June, the French retail group is now operational in 19 ...
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El Rincón dela Montaña, one of the major outdoor retailers...
El Rincón dela Montaña, one of the major outdoor retailers in Madrid, plans to launch an online shop toward the end of the current spring season
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Bever, the leading outdoor retailer in the Netherlands, is continuing...
Bever, the leading outdoor retailer in the Netherlands, is continuing to expand in the country with a string of shop-in-shops to be opened from April in Bijenkorf department stores. Sport Partner reports that the first two will open in the Bijenkorf stores in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and on the prestigious ...
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REI, the big American outdoor specialty retail chain, managed to increase...
REI, the big American outdoor specialty retail chain, managed to increase its sales from $1.79 billion in 2011 to $1.93 billion last year. In the same period, the gross profit jumped from $763.1 million to $802.6 million, while the operating profit went up from $133.2 million to $136.6 million. On the ...
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Haglöfs has opened a flagship store of 300 square meters...
Haglöfs has opened a flagship store of 300 square meters in central Oslo, following opening stores in Stockholm, Seoul and Tokyo
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Décathlon has a share of around 27 percent in the...
Décathlon has a share of around 27 percent in the Spanish outdoor market, according to a source quoted by the Diffusion Sport magazine
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Marmot has opened its first factory outlet in Germany in...
Marmot has opened its first factory outlet in Germany in the town of Metzingen, which is well known in the southern region of the country for its large number of outlet stores. The interesting thing about the point of sale is that the U.S. brand shares the 200 square meters ...
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The North Face is reportedly planning to open its first...
The North Face is reportedly planning to open its first flagship store in Paris next autumn, and to take over the management of a franchised store in Munich. Other important store openings are in the pipeline in Germany, the U.K., Italy and Poland. All in all, the number of corporate ...
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Au Vieux Campeur is going to open next autumn a...
Au Vieux Campeur is going to open next autumn a store of 1,900 m² in Toulouse, replacing a smaller one, according to sport-guide.com. The leading French chain of outdoor specialty stores is predicting a high single-digit increase for the financial year ending next September as compared to €143 million in ...
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After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and...
After opening new corporate stores in Lyon, France and Cologne, Germany, at the end of last year, The North Face will be opening four additional corporate stores in Germany, France and Poland in 2013. In March, a new store directly operated by TNF will be inaugurated in Düsseldorf, to be followed by ...
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Leki, the maker of poles and gloves, is making its...
Leki, the maker of poles and gloves, is making its inroads into e-commerce. In the past few months, the company has been building up an internet platform that integrates retail customers in the sales process. Leki started with only five retailers in Germany, spread around the country to avoid regional ...
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Vaude will open three more single-brand stores in Germany, which...
Vaude will open three more single-brand stores in Germany, which will all be run by franchisees. On March 1, a store with a selling surface of about 300 square meters will open in Ludwigsburg outside Stuttgart, to be followed by two more doors in the cities of Paderborn and Bremen in April. ...
