Tag: sportsworld

  • Dutch chain Topshelf to close down

    Dutch chain Topshelf to close down

    Dutch department store operator Topshelf appears to be closing down.

    The company has announced its last store in Alkmaar will close in mid-January, following the shuttering of stores in Arnhem, Nijmegen and Groningen.

    The company has not filed for bankruptcy and it says it will continue to employ existing staff as it quits remaining stock. Disappointing sales were cited as the reason for the closure.

    Topshelf – no relation to the UK-headquartered Topshop and Topman retail brands – was launched in 1995 as a megastore, focusing on sports and outdoors wear, called Sportsworld. At the end of 2015, it opened stores in premises occupied by collapsed department store chain V&D, expanding further in April last year into Arnhem and Nijmegen en Groningen.

    With sales remaining weak last December, the company decided to convert the city stores – Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen and Alkmaar – to Topshelf, continuing to operate other branches in Beuningen, Leerdam and Cruquius, outside the city, as Sportsworld.

    The Topshelf stores stocked luxury gifts, fashion and homewares and ranged products from brands including Versace, Guess, McGregor, Superdry, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Speedo, Calvin Klein, Ray Ban, O’Neill and Atomic.

  • Vingroup plans hybrid retailer community

    Vingroup plans hybrid retailer community

    Vietnam property developer Vingroup is constant to increase its retail enterprise, saying a 300-strong community of hybrid shops.

    The shops will take up giant footprints, initially within the firm’s fast-growing community of buying malls – cut up into 4 totally different manufacturers: BeautyZone promoting healthcare and cosmetics, ShoeCenter, Sportsworld and Trend Megastore.

    Vingroup has already expanded into the comfort sector with VinMart and can also be creating an electronics retail chain. Its transfer into the hybrid retailer format is a measure to determine an area beachhead towards the rising tide of worldwide retail ideas eyeing the rising organised retail market in Vietnam.

    The primary retailer will open in Can Tho, a big metropolis south of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, in July. Vingroup says it hopes to have 74 shops buying and selling inside a yr and 300 inside three years.

    The shops, developed by Vingroup subsidiary VinDS Buying and selling and Providers, will inventory internationally recognized manufacturers and, within the case of the ShoeCenter, its personal vary, branded Prime Toe.

    “These codecs sign a brand new course for our group, an entire product providing vacation spot via our ideas for the shoppers to take part, to take pleasure in true worth and train decisions,” stated Munish Rishi, VinDS CEO.

    “VinDS retail shops shall be smarter, quicker and revolutionary retail codecs constructed upon partnerships with worldwide, regional and most significantly, profitable Vietnamese manufacturers that may really relate to Vietnamese hearts.”

    The ShoeCenter will occupy a 600-1000 sqm footprint stocking some 25 manufacturers for males, ladies and youngsters, sourced internationally and regionally. Vingroup expects it to turn into the nation’s largest shoe retailer.

    BeautyZone will inventory cosmetics, healthcare merchandise, make-up and pores and skin and bodycare merchandise in a format which appears more likely to problem Dairy Farm Worldwide Group’s Guardian chain, which has been rising steadily in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis over the past three years. Vingroup’s chain will give attention to mid to excessive finish manufacturers, together with L’Occitane, Clarins, Kanebo, Laneige, Yves Rocher and Vichy.

    The Sportsworld community will inventory adidas, Nike and Aero Sport merchandise, amongst others, starting from footwear, jogging gear, sportswear and informal style to equipment and health gear.

    The Trend Megastore would be the largest of the shops, starting from 2500-5000 sqm and inventory each native and worldwide attire manufacturers.