All Retail articles – Page 57

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    Globetrotter Ausrüstung is now the owner of six e-bikes from...

    2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Globetrotter Ausrüstung is now the owner of six e-bikes from E-Collection that can be used by the employees at the retailer's headquarters in Hamburg. The idea behind the initiative is to reduce the company's CO2 footprint.

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    Gore-Tex, which opened a footwear store at Amazon.de two years...

    2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Gore-Tex, which opened a footwear store at Amazon.de two years ago, will now also offer jackets and pants of its brand partners in this shop. Gore-Tex wants to strengthen the visibility of both its own brand and those of its partners and wants to give additional advice to end consumers ...

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    Schöffel and Lowa have opened their second joint store in...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Schöffel and Lowa have opened their second joint store in Berlin and the 12th in Germany. The door, located in a shopping mall called Wilmersdorfer Arcaden, has a selling surface of 180 square meters and will be run by the franchisees Frank and Kurt Rohrmeier. Meanwhile, Schöffel has announced that ...

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    The Swedish Trade Federation and the newspaper Dagens Handel have...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The Swedish Trade Federation and the newspaper Dagens Handel have named Naturkompaniet “Chain of the Year.” The award, which was presented as part of the 2012 Retail Awards in Stockholm, is open to retailers from all industries. Naturkompaniet, the chain of outdoor stores owned by Fenix Outdoor, won because of ...

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    Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Sportler, the Italian sporting goods retail chain owned by the Oberrauch family, has opened a new, innovative store across from its renovated store in downtown Brunico. Spread over 785 square meters on five floors, the new store is the company's seventh Alpinhaus, specializing in outdoor and winter sports products. It ...

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    Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Globetrotter, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, is looking into alternatives to traditional retailing and investing in new projects, notably in tourism: While it has been operating mega stores with a selling surface of several thousand square meters in seven big cities around Germany, it is now trying smaller surfaces ...

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    Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Right in time to benefit from an exceptional exposure during the Olympic Games in London, Marmot Mountain has opened its flagship store in the British capital, in the direct vicinity of the Olympic venues. Located in the large new Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, the corporate store features the whole ...

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    CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    CMD reports the opening in Barcelona of the first store exclusively dedicated to female mountaineers. Called Annapurna and run by two outdoor sports enthusiasts, Esther Ariete and Marga Nadal, it is located at Calle Rosselló 48. It has only 80 square meters of net sales space, but it plans to ...

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    Kathmandu Outdoor & Travel, a famous outdoor store in the...

    2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Kathmandu Outdoor & Travel, a famous outdoor store in the center of Utrecht, has opened a mono-brand store of about 150 square meters for Icebreaker in the same town. It will sell a range of about 300 products by the New Zealand wool specialist, the widest offer of Icebreaker products ...

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    The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation...

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The North Face has opened a partner store in cooperation with a franchisee in the French town of Annecy. The store has a selling surface of 170 square meters. The opening came after the opening of three shop-in-shops with surfaces between 30 and 140 square meters in St. Lary, Lyon ...

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    Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon,...

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Arc'teryx, the Canadian brand of outdoor apparel owned by Salomon, is opening its first women-specific store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The store will be called Nuttallii, named after the Latin name for the floral emblem of British Columbia. The store opened earlier this week, with a soothing white-on-white ...

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    Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth...

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Galeria Kaufhof, the department store chain, has added a fourth store to its specialty outdoor banner called Wanderzeit (“time for hiking”). The selling space of 490 square meters is located in a shopping mall in the German city of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony. Kaufhof launched the new concept last spring with ...

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    Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street...

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Vibram has inaugurated a special store at 292 Newbury Street in Boston to showcase its FiveFingers line of glove-styled shoes. It features “experience zones” to test its shoes on marble, woodchips, grass, stones and the kind of safety strips used in the subway. Some of the models are sold only ...

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    Reportedly, The North Face plans to open new own stores...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Reportedly, The North Face plans to open new own stores in Cologne and Vienna

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    At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory outlet in the southern German town of Metzingen on schedule, after a five-month trial run. Metzingen is well known as a mecca for smart shoppers in the country, much like Troyes in France. The town is the base of Hugo ...

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    Salewa has received the “Rosa de Plata” (“silver rose”), an...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Salewa has received the “Rosa de Plata” (“silver rose”), an award put out by the Barna Centre federation for the brand's new store in Barcelona, Spain. The Italian brand opened the store around the corner from the Ramblas, the city's famous street, in cooperation with the local Mañanes family as ...

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    Vrijbuiter, the Dutch retailer with three megastores for camping products,...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Vrijbuiter, the Dutch retailer with three megastores for camping products, opened a fourth store in Zaandam earlier this month. Sport Partner reports that Vrijbuiter previously acquired De Kampeerwinkel, another camping store in Zaandam, which was owned by Joost Karsten. It then closed down this store and opened a new Vrijbuiter ...

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    HDE, the federation of German retailers, has awarded Globetrotter the...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    HDE, the federation of German retailers, has awarded Globetrotter the prize for “Store of the Year” in the “off-line” category. The prize goes to the chain's big store in Munich, which opened one year ago. The four-storey shop has a selling surface of 6,500 square meters and features various attractions ...

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    Last weekend, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the big German specialty outdoor retailer,...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Last weekend, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, the big German specialty outdoor retailer, opened two climbing areas at once. The 60-square-meter specialty shop in Berlin is located right next to the retailer's Berlin flagship store and is called “Kletterland” (“climbing land”). The opening was packed with events such as the appearance of a ...

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    Schöffel and Lowa are about to open two more joint...

    2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Schöffel and Lowa are about to open two more joint stores in the German cities of Goslar and Regensburg through franchisees, increasing the total number of bi-branded doors to 11