Sports Direct will expand its retail presence in France, Sport-Guide.com has reported. Two new stores are already planned at the Aéroville shopping mall, near the Parisian airport of Roissy, and at Cité Europe, a shopping mall located near the French terminal of the Channel Tunnel at Coquelles/Calais. The two stores are expected to have a surface of 1,500-2,000 square meters each. A third store is also planned, according to Sport-Guide, although its location has not been unveiled. Sports Direct, owned by the British Frasers Group, arrived in France in 2010 and currently has four stores in the country, located in Fresnes, Claye Souilly, Herblay-sur-Seine and Sainte Geneviève des Bois.
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