Birkenstock, Hoka, Salomon and More Footwear Companies Opening New Stores in 2026

As 2026 kicks off, determination are nary shortage of footwear retailers and brands that are heading into the caller twelvemonth with ambitious store enlargement plans.

From monobranded locations to sporting goods retailers, present are immoderate of the store openings slated for 2026.

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On the company’s 3rd 4th 2025 league telephone successful December, Academy Sports + Outdoors main enforcement serviceman Steve Lawrence told analysts that the institution plans to unfastened up an further 20 to 25 stores successful 2026 with a absorption connected opening astir 80 percent of the caller stores successful bequest and existing markets and 20 percent successful newer markets. The CEO noted that arsenic successful the past, the institution tends to unfastened successful caller markets successful the archetypal portion of the twelvemonth and bequest and existing are much backmost fractional weighted.

Oliver Reichert, the German footwear firm’s main enforcement officer, told analysts during its 4th fourth league telephone past period that Birkenstock plans to unfastened astir 40 caller stores successful 2026. This puts the institution connected way to scope its 150 store people up of schedule. “This volition let america to seizure much successful idiosyncratic buying request and younger shoppers wrong our ain D2C concern and allows america to showcase the afloat scope of our collection,” Reichert said.

In October, Boot Barn main enforcement serviceman John Hazen told analysts during the company’s 2nd 4th 2026 net telephone that the institution believes it tin run 1,200 stores crossed the United States, an summation from its anterior estimation of 900, which is much than treble its existent footprint. As of Oct. 29, 2025, Boot Barn said it would extremity the fiscal twelvemonth with 70 caller stores opened. And arsenic the institution looks towards fiscal 2027, the pipeline includes 20 projected openings successful the archetypal quarter, which volition statesman successful April this year.

After opening its archetypal Cloudsteppers conception store successful the U.S. wrong the La Palmera Mall successful Corpus Christi, Texas past month, Clarks is moving up with the project’s expansion. In an interrogation with FN successful December, Peter Quirke, Clarks vice president of retail successful the Americas, said that the institution has already signed 3 leases for caller Cloudsteppers stores to unfastened successful the archetypal 4th of 2026 successful the U.S. “We person the utmost assurance that what we’re doing is going to work,” Quirke noted. “So, we’re aiming to unfastened different 5 successful the backmost fractional of 2026, and we privation to extremity ‘26 with a twelve locations. Still, we’re being selective successful wherever we’re going to open, but we firmly judge successful the occurrence of this concept.”