Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, while Quebec and Yukon are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands. In 2011, Canadian Tire bought Sport Chek's parent company, FGL Sports (then known as Forzani), for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring.
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Sportchek (TSX: FGL) est un détaillant canadien de vêtements sportifs, d'équipements sportifs et de réparation d'équipement, avec plus de 100 magasins répartis sur les provinces canadiennes. Sportschek dirige 201 magasins sous les noms Sport Chek, Sport Mart, Coast Mountain et National Sports. Il est aussi le franchiseur de 160 magasins sous les noms Intersport, RnR, Tech Shop, Econosports et Nevada Bob's. Le groupe le détient dans son int •
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Sport Chek
Products
Sporting goods, clothing and footwear
Established
January 1, 1999
HQ
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing, sports equipment, with stores across Canada (excluding Yukon). Its parent company, FGL Sports Ltd., operates stores under the following corporate and franchise banners: Sport Chek, National Sports, Sports Experts, Intersport, Atmosphere (formerly Coast Mountain Sports), Tech Shop, Econosports, Nevada Bob's Golf, and Hockey Experts.
History[]
Sport Chek was created on January 1, 1999, in Alberta quickly expanding towards other Canadian provinces during the early 2000's, Sports Experts, the sister company of Sport Chek had locations in Quebec and Yukon, by the year 2011, Canadian Tire fully bought out Sport Chek's parent company at the time "Forzani", since then, Canadian Tire became the main owner of both Sport Chek and Sports Experts. Bigger Sport Chek location then began to open durin
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Sport Chek
Canadian sporting goods retailer
Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd. (doing business asSport Chek) is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, while Quebec and Yukon are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands.[1]
In 2011, Canadian Tire bought out full corporate ownership stakes of Sport Chek's parent company, FGL Sports (then known as Forzani), for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring.
New Sport Chek stores with Samsung OLED screens, tablets, and high tech were opened at West Edmonton Mall in 2014, Square One and Yorkdale in 2015, and a flagship SportChek/Atmosphere opened in Sherway Gardens in the GTA in July 2016.[2][why?]