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    Benoit Verdier no longer general manager of Go Sport

    2022-12-07T16:51:00Z

    Less than a year after his appointment, Benoit Verdier has resigned as general manager of French sporting goods retailer Go Sport. The retailer’s 2,160 employees received the news of his departure on Dec. 1 “without any explanation,” according to French newspaper Le Monde. Verdier became general manager of Go Sport ...

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    Go Sport opens new Paris store “La Salle de Sport”

    2022-09-27T13:56:15.243Z

    Less than one year after the acquisition of Go Sport by Hermione People & Brands for one symbolic Euro from Rallye, the company has opened its first new store in Paris. The new, 1,700-square-meter ‘La Salle de Sport’ (the gym) retail concept at Boulevard de la Madeleine in the heart ...

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    Sportmaster reportedly withdraws from Poland

    2022-06-24T10:41:00Z

    Go Sport, the Polish subsidiary of the Russian largest sporting goods retailer Sportmaster is pushed towards bankruptcy, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported, citing sources close to the matter. Despite obtaining permission to sell the Polish business to British Sports Direct, Sportmaster failed to close the deal, while restrictions against the ...

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    Russia’s Sportmaster set to exit Denmark and Poland

    2022-03-23T16:53:00Z

    The Singapore-based parent company of the Sportmaster Group, whose eponymous retail chain is the largest sporting goods retailer in Russia, has decided to divest the retail chains that it had acquired in Poland and Denmark in the last years as part of a wider geographic diversification. It already sold its ...

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    Go Sport has a new GM

    2022-02-23T12:28:00Z

    Hermione People & Brands (HPB) has announced the appointment of Benoît Verdier as the new general manager of Go Sport, with immediate effect. He will report to Wilhelm Hubner and Samuel Alimi, respectively the president and vice-president of HPB. Verdier has more than 15 years of experience in the retail ...

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    Top sporting goods retailers in Europe

    2021-12-02T15:52:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart ranks the top sporting goods retailers in Europe by revenues in USD for 2020 and percentage growth in their local currency. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Top 50 Sporting Goods Retailers in the Galaxy

    2021-12-02T11:00:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart ranks the top 50 sporting goods retailers by revenues in USD for 2020 and percentage growth in their local currency. The charts and data can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Go Sport is being sold to a financial investor

    2021-03-11T11:35:00Z

    Rallye has announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Financière Immobilière Bordelaise (FIB) for the sale of the entire share capital of the third-largest sporting goods retailer in France, Groupe Go Sport, for the symbolic price of one euro, without assumption of debt and without any representations or ...