Retail: Decathlon strikes into Galeria branches | EUROtoday

In some branches, clients of the Galeria division retailer chain can even have the ability to store on the sporting items vendor Decathlon. The two buying and selling corporations have agreed to collaboration, as might be seen from a joint message.

Decathlon will due to this fact open the primary store within the Galeria items retailer in Constance in August. By the tip of 2025, others are to observe in Duisburg, Freiburg, Trier and Kassel. It is also extra. “After the first successful tests, Decathlon plans to open other branches in Galeria houses,” it says.

Galeria’s restart after chapter

The gross sales areas of decathlon are stated to be between 1,500 and three,500 sq. meters. “With Decathlon we bring a leading expert for sporting goods into the house to round off our own sports range,” stated Galeria buying supervisor Alexa Deters. Galeria had already introduced a cooperation with the meals discounter Lidl in autumn.

The division retailer was once more in 2023 insolvency slipped. In the summer season of 2024, the courtroom gave the inexperienced gentle for the restart and the takeover by the brand new house owners: the US funding firm NRDC and a participation firm of the entrepreneur Bernd Beetz. Nine Galeria branches needed to shut as a part of the chapter. There are at the moment 83 places.

The French sporting items vendor and producer Decathlon has round 90 branches. In November, the corporate introduced that it might wish to open up greater than 60 new retailers within the coming years.

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