Ochsner Sport, the big Swiss sporting goods retail chain owned by the Deichmann group, is withdrawing from the German market, parting with its nine remaining Sport Sperk stores in the country, according to Textilwirtschaft. Six of them, with a total of around 7,500 square meters of sales space, will be taken over by five German retail members of Intersport. Three of them are more than 1,000 square meters large. Ochsner first moved into Germany under its own banner in 2015, opening a store in Neu-Ulm. It was followed by two others. All three were converted to the better known Sport Sperk banner in 2019, three years after Ochsner acquired Sport Sperk, a chain of 13 stores in southern Germany. By that time, the total number of locations owned by Ochsner in Germany had been reduced to eleven.

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