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Decathlon enters Kolkata, opens store in Salt Lake

| @indiablooms | Jan 12, 2019, at 06:53 pm

Kolkata, Jan 12 (IBNS): Decathlon, the French sporting goods retailer in the world, last week kept its footprint in Kolkata by opening its first store in Salt Lake area.

Decathlon has 50 sports under its portfolio.

The store offers 5000 products which range from trekking to football.

It also produces its own designed products in India and all over the world.

Shubh Chhajer, the store leader, said: "At Decathlon, we like to open the stores at the places where we feel we are needed. In Kolkata we are a team of 50 sports passionate people living our common dream of sustainability making the pleasure and benefits of sports accessible to the many.

"The Salt Lake store will be doing it in many ways," he said.

The store is spread in two-floor areas, ground and first, than any other traditional Decathlon store formats.

Decathlon's first store in India was opened in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in 2009.

(Images by Avishek Mitra/IBNS)

 

 

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