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The original JJB sportshop was founded in the beginning of the 1900s. It was expanded and incorporated in 1971, [4] [5] when ex footballer and supermarket chain operator Dave Whelan acquired a single sports shop in Wigan, and immediately opened a second sports goods outlet in his supermarket in Sutton, St Helens.
[25] [26] Sports Direct International sold its shares on 16 January 2014, although they took out an option to buy further shares up to a total of 6.6%. [27] In December 2016, Sports Direct International agreed to sell the remaining international rights to its Dunlop brand to Sumitomo Rubber Industries for £112 million ($137.5 million). [28]
In October 2012, Sports Direct International acquired 20 former JJB Sports stores and converted them into Sports Direct stores. [ 8 ] In June 2015, Sports Direct appeared in an episode of Channel 4 's Dispatches where they investigated and went under-cover in the Sports Direct warehouse in Shirebrook as it was alleged it was like "sweatshop ...
DW Sports Fitness was a British retailing and fitness business, founded as a result of Dave Whelan's purchase of 50 JJB Sports fitness clubs with attached retail stores for £83.4 million in March 2009. [1] The business would later encompass more than 140 sites, which included expansion to stand-alone retail stores and stand-alone fitness clubs ...
JJB rejected this resignation as no agreement had been met. [3] Ronnie had previously worked for Umbro, Sports Direct International, Pentland Group and Blane Leisure Limited. [4] In October 2010 Ronnie held discussions with DW Sports about purchasing the retail business from Dave Whelan's company.
Sports Division was one of the biggest sports retailers in the United Kingdom during the 1990s. [1] The company was set up by Sir Tom Hunter in 1984 to sell trainers, initially from the back of a van. Hunter subsequently borrowed £5,000 from his father and a further £5,000 from RBS to set up Sports Division.
Heatons was an Irish chain of department stores, established in 1946. It operated throughout the island of Ireland and sold fashion, homeware and sporting goods.. Heatons briefly held a franchise for British Home Stores, [1] and also co-located some shops with Iceland during their first venture into Ireland.
Broadband Sports was originally a high-flying dotcom-era network of sports-content Web sites that raised over $60 million before going bust in February 2001. [1] The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company originally started out as Athlete Direct ("AD"), that served as the host of 350 official web sites for such athletes as Troy Aikman, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Brett Favre, Mia Hamm, Eric Karros ...