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Sports Authority Inc.
Type Sporting goods
Founded 1928
Headquarters 1050 West Hampden Avenue, Englewood, Colorado 80110
Key people Tom Floore, CEO and President
Tomasi Binagi, COO
Industry Retail
Products Apparel, sports equipment, footwear, exercise equipment
Website http://www.sportsauthority.com/
A location in Eden Prairie, MN
A location in Eden Prairie, MN

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The company's e-tailing website (located at sportsauthority. com), is operated by GSI Commerce, Inc. GSI Commerce is an E-commerce company specializing in creating developing and running online shopping sites for Brick and mortar retail companies that wish to have under license and e-commerce agreements. Because the e-commerce website is operated under a company separate from Sports Authority, the website often carries a wider selection than what is available in the stores. Because of the licensing agreement, unfortunately, returns from the website may not be processed in the stores. In addition, a joint venture with ÆON Co. commonly written AEON Co Ltd, is the holding company of ÆON Group. , Ltd. operates "Sports Authority" stores in Japan under a licensing agreement. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

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History

Gart Sports

The Gart Sports name had been synonymous with the top tier of sporting goods retailers in the United States for over 70 years. The Gart tradition started in 1928, when Denver Post newspaper carrier Nathan Gart started the company with $50 in fishing rod samples. The Denver Post is a daily Newspaper and online website published in Denver Colorado.

In 1971, Gart Sports Company opened its first "Superstore" with the opening of the world famous "Sportscastle" store in Denver, Colorado at the corner of 10th Avenue and Broadway Avenue. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States The 1980s proved to be an exciting time for the company, during which the company grew through a series of acquisitions. These mergers included Hagan's Sports Ltd. , Dave Cook and Stevens Brown of Salt Lake City.

At the same time that Gart Sports Company opened the Sportscastle, the Hochberg family opened their first Sportmart in Niles, Illinois, and the company grew to 60 stores in nine states. Gart Sports and Sportmart merged in 1998.

Oshman's

Oshman's was opened in 1919 when Jake Oshman opened the first Oshman's Sporting Goods store. By 1965, Jake Oshman had built his business to become the largest sporting goods chain in Texas. The company operated 43 Oshman's SuperSports USA stores and 15 traditional stores when it merged with Gart Sports Company in 2001.

Sports Authority

The Sports Authority, Inc. opened its first store in November 1987 in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. Lauderdale Lakes is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. In 1990, with approximately nine stores in six states, the company was acquired by Kmart. Kmart (sometimes spelled as " K-Mart " is a chain of department stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U Five years later, The Sports Authority had expanded to 136 stores in 26 states, and was spun-off from parent Kmart.

Gart Sports merge with Sports Authority

Gart Sports, which also operated Oshman's and Sportmart, completed a merger with Sports Authority on August 4, 2003. Sports Authority is one of the USA's largest Sporting goods Retailers. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. At the time of its merger with Gart Sports Company, The Sports Authority was the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the United States, and had 205 stores in 33 states. The combined company took The Sports Authority name. With the merger, each share of Sports Authority was exchanged with 0. 37 shares of Gart Sports which gave investors in each about 50% of the new merchant. The new company is based in Englewood, Colorado, which was home of Gart Sports. The City of Englewood is a Home Rule Municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.

As of May 2006, the remaining stores that were not operating under the Sports Authority name re-branded to the Sports Authority name. There are no longer any stores operating under the name of Gart Sports, Sportmart or Oshman's. Some stores still have some remnants of the name, including some stationery or forms.

Copeland Sports

In August 2006, Copeland Sports, headquartered out of San Luis Obispo, California filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. San Luis Obispo (sænˈluːɪs əˈbɪspoʊ Spanish for St Louis the Bishop) is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their Creditors Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against In November 2006, Sports Authority assumed the leasehold interests of seven former Copeland's Sports locations, and had planned to acquire at least five more. These stores will remodel and re-brand to Sports Authority locations, and will re-open as Sports Authority stores in 2007. With the acquisition of the Copeland's locations, the company plans to open 30 new locations.

Brands

Sports Authority sells a multitude of different brands of sporting goods from many different vendors. The company also sells products under its own private labels, including Alpine Design (which makes up a majority of clothing and outdoor goods), Aspire (women's sportswear), Golf Day (Golf goods), Tour Collection (Golf), Estero (Soccer cleats and equipment), Parkside (outdoor games and trampolines) and Bodyfit by Sports Authority (fitness accessories). Many of these products are made by other manufacturers and branded with the Sports Authority private labels.

Sports Authority and Under Armour are expected to announce a partnership in the near future.

Competitors

Its major competitors in the U. S. include many other sporting goods retailers like Dick's Sporting Goods. Dick's Sporting Goods ( is a large US sporting goods retailer Dick's Sporting Goods operates Dick's Sporting Goods Stores, Golf Galaxy Stores and recently acquired the West coast sporting goods chain, Chick's Sporting Goods. Excluding revenues from Chicks, DKS generated 2007 revenues of $3. 8B in fiscal 2008. With the inclusion of Chicks, DKS operates over 450 stores, surpassing The Sports Authority on stores and revenue.

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