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A JJB Sports Superstore in the Leeds Shopping Plaza, Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2010. A JJB Sports store in Rushmere Retail Park, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, in 2009. This is now a B&M store. JJB Sports plc was a British sports retailer. On 24 September 2012, shares in JJB Sports were suspended, and the firm called in administrators.
Built and opened in 1999, [2] it was initially the JJB Stadium after its main sponsor. [5] In UEFA matches, it was called Wigan Athletic Stadium due to UEFA regulations on sponsorship. [ 6 ] From 2009 to 2024, it was renamed the DW Stadium , and from 13 May 2024, it was again renamed, this time as The Brick Community Stadium , reflecting a ...
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 ...
The stake amounted to 11.9% of JD Sports in November 2013. Sports Direct formerly held 5% of Amer Sports. [18] In 2012 Sports Direct International purchased rival retailer JJB's brand name, website, 20 stores and all of their stock in a deal for approximately £24m. The deal saved around 550 jobs. [19] [20] [21] [22]
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.
JJB Sports signed a two-year deal to sponsor the Super League in 1998. The league became known as the JJB Super League. It was the first Super League season to have a playoff and Grand Final which was also named the JJB Super League Grand Final. JJB also sponsor Wigan Warriors and had the naming rights to their stadium.
Ronnie appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Wednesday 4 April 2012 charged with fraud, theft and money laundering. [5] He appeared alongside a clothing manufacturer who was a key supplier to the sports retailer during Ronnie's tenure as chief executive of JJB between August 2007 and March 2009.
Founded in Liverpool by Margaret Poole in 1847, it was later bought by Dave Whelan, the owner of JJB Sports and chairman of Wigan Athletic F.C. In March 2012 Whelan sold the company to former Holland's Pies Managing Director, Neil Court-Johnston. [1] [2] who was also a former director of Peter's Food Services in South Wales. [3]