All Go Sport articles
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News briefsRobin Trebbe and Christoffer Jansén joined Al Mana
Following its 2023 acquisition of Go Sport, Qatar-based Al Mana has named Robin Trebbe as General Manager of Go Sport Franchising and Christoffer Jansén as General Manager of the Sports Division at Al Mana Fashion Group. Trebbe will oversee the expansion of the Go Sport franchise network, while Jansén will ...
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News briefsGo Sports opens a store in Baghdad
The new Go Sport store in Iraq is poised to be the premier destination for sports enthusiasts.
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ArticleParis 2024: A powerful symbiosis of openings, product launches, cultural events, mishaps and scandals
By the time the 2024 Summer Olympic Games officially opened in Paris last week, the mega-event had already cast a shadow. For weeks, the events, store openings and product launches of a wide range of players had followed one another like pearls on a string.
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ArticleIntersport, Decathlon largest clothing retailers in France
Over the past 24 years, the sporting goods chains Intersport and Decathlon have become the leading retailers of clothing in France, overtaking hypermarkets, which used to control a combined 20 percent of the clothing market in 2000, according to the study Référenseigne Fashion carried out by Kantar, a group of ...
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News briefsBaked teams up with Go Sport for international brand campaign
Baked and Go Sport have joined forces to unveil a brand campaign spanning Go Sport’s primary global markets. The collaboration aims to harness their collective strengths in fostering a “go further” mindset among consumers. The campaign champions the pivotal role of sports in the daily routines of modern athletes and ...
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News briefsBid under review for 25 French Intersport, two Go Sport stores
According to France’s Authority on Competition (Autorité de la Concurrence), Schiever, an international retail group based in Burgundy, is looking to acquire full control of 25 Intersport stores (20 retail stores and five outlets) and two Go Sport stores – as well as four stores of the ready-to-wear chain Blackstore. ...
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News briefsGo Sport calms worried customers
The long back and forth about the whereabouts of the French chain Go Sport after its bankruptcy has probably also unsettled its customers. Go Sport has now appeased them with a public message on its website. A text to its customers from the retailer, which was taken over by Intersport, ...
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ArticleUnit of JD Sports to take over Gap France
Following on from April’s decision in which Intersport France had the winning bid to acquire the Go Sport Group in a joint venture with the Qatari firm Al-Mana, Spodis – a unit of JD Sports Fashion – has been chosen by a Grenoble-based commercial court as the buyer of part ...
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News briefsIntersport to acquire Go Sport
The commercial court of Grenoble has come to a decision with respect to Go Sport Group, ruling today in favor of Intersport France’s bid for the company, according to BFM Business. Making its offer in a joint venture with the Qatari firm Al-Mana, Intersport has prevailed over about 20 companies ...
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News briefsFrench courts to decide Go Sport’s fate
According to multiple sources in the French press, the fate of Go Sport and its parent, Groupe Go Sport, lies in the hands of the commercial court of Grenoble, the city for which the sporting-goods retailer is named (Grenoble Olympique Sport). Go Sport’s owner Hermione, People & Brands (HPB) has ...
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News briefsSports Direct parent interested in Go Sport?
Michael Murray, CEO of U.K.-based Frasers Group, Sports Direct’s parent company, told Bloomberg that buying the French chain Go Sport out of bankruptcy would allow his group to operate in France “with some authority rather than opening store by store,” which would significantly bolster Frasers’ plans to expand its sports ...
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News briefsFrench court will examine options for Go Sport on April 18
The Grenoble Commercial Court has decided to study the continuation plan that Hermione People & Brands (HPB), Go Sport’s owner, the owner of Go Sport, intends to implement, as well as the takeover bids available on April 18. Intersport and Frasers (formerly Sports Direct) are among the potential buyers. French ...
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News briefsGo Sport CEO Patrick Puy dismissed
Hermione People & Brands (HPB), the parent company of French sporting goods retailer Go Sport, announced in a letter dated March 8 the dismissal of Go Sport CEO Patrick Puy. As we reported earlier this year, Puy was appointed head of the retailer on Jan. 4 with the objective of ...
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News briefsBritish sports retailer reportedly interested in Go Sport
According to Sport Guide, which refers to “several concordant sources,” Frasers Group plans to make an offer for Go Sport, the French retailer currently undergoing a rough patch. Go Sport, which operates 223 stores in France, was placed in receivership by the Commercial Court of Grenoble in January. The court ...
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News briefsGo Sport Group brought under judicial supervision by commercial court
On Jan. 19, the Commercial Court of Grenoble placed the Go Sport group, a retailer that operates 223 stores in France, in receivership after having noted its state of cessation of payment. The court said that it “has ascertained the insolvency of the company Groupe Go Sport and launched proceedings ...
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News briefsGo Sport to acquire Gap France amidst uncertain future
Parent company Hermione People & Brands has confirmed in a short statement that its French sports retail chain subsidiary Go Sport will acquire the master franchise for Gap in France. French investigative online newspaper Mediapart originally unveiled the information on Jan. 10. According to Mediapart, Go Sport and Gap France ...
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News briefsGo Sport with new managing director
About two weeks before the Grenoble Commercial Court was expected to rule on the possible insolvency of Go Sport, based in Sassenage in the French Isère department, its parent company Hermione, People & Brands (HPB) announced that Patrick Puy was appointed as its new general manager, effective Jan. 4. The ...
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News briefsGo Sport: Court decision postponed until January 16
The Grenoble Commercial Court, which was to decide the fate of Go Sport (as reported by SGI Europe earlier), appointed an investigating judge and postponed the inspection of files until Jan. 16, 2023. The decision of the commercial court of Grenoble to put the verdict on hold is “a message ...
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ArticleDecision on judicial recapitalization proceedings for Go Sport expected Wednesday
According to media reports, a hearing was held on Dec. 19 with management and employees to examine the financial situation of the retail chain.
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