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Gymshark Ltd [1] is a British-based multinational athletic apparel retailer headquartered in Solihull, West Midlands, England. [6] Founded in June 2012 by Ben Francis and Lewis Morgan, the company was initially focused on crafting and distributing its own line of fitness wear. Gymshark reached a valuation of over £1 billion in 2020. [7]
Sportswear is often worn as casual fashion clothing. For most sports the athletes wear a combination of different items of clothing, e.g. sport shoes, pants and shirts. In some sports, protective gear may need to be worn, such as helmets or American football body armour.
Champion (also stylized as Champion U.S.A.) is a brand of clothing, specializing in sportswear owned and marketed by American apparel company Hanesbrands (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina), which was spun off by the Sara Lee Corporation in 2006.
Lululemon, commonly styled as lululemon (/ ˌ l uː l u ˈ l ɛ m ə n / loo-loo-LEM-ən; all lowercase [2]), is a Canadian [4] [5] multinational athletic apparel retailer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and incorporated in Delaware, United States as Lululemon Athletica Inc. [6] It was founded in 1998 as a retailer of yoga pants and other yoga wear, and has expanded to also sell ...
He worked alone selling his gear until 1965, when he partnered with Tom Frost in order to improve his products and address the growing supply and demand issue he faced. [ 10 ] In 1970, Chouinard obtained rugby shirts from Scotland that he wore while climbing because the collar kept the climbing sling from hurting his neck.
The three owners extended Gold's Gym to the franchise system and made licensing out deals all over the USA. Gold's Gym was one of the first companies in the health and fitness industry to franchise, starting in 1980. [17] Using the momentum of its fame it sold licenses for products such as fitness equipment and clothing.
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Bally Total Fitness acquired Crunch in 2001 for $90 million in cash and stock, [14] holding the brand for four years. In 2005 Angelo, Gordon & Co., a private equity firm, purchased Crunch from Ballys for $45 million, and in 2009 added New Evolution Fitness Company ("NEFC"/New Evolution Ventures), a company founded by Mark Mastrov (founder of 24 hour fitness) and fitness Veteran Jim Rowley, as ...