Sport Chek

Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 195 stores throughout Canada as of 2017. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, while Quebec and Yukon are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands.[1]

Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd.

Trade name	Sport Chek
Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Area served	Canada
Owner	Canadian Tire
Parent	FGL Sports
Website	sportchek.ca

A Sport Chek store at the Scarborough Town Centre in Scarborough, Ontario. This is now closed and replaced with a Forever 21.

A Sport Chek store in The Promenade Shopping Centre, Thornhill, Ontario with a very rare sign, without the red check.

In 1999, a Sport Supercenter flagship store was opened on the top level of the Londonderry Mall, replacing an existing Walmart store. In 2014, the Londonderry Mall store relocated to Manning Town Centre, and was replaced by Simons in 2017. There was a second one in Place d'Orléans, but it was converted to Sport Chek/Nevada's Bob Golf in 2012.

In 2011, Canadian Tire bought Sport Chek's parent company, FGL Sports (then known as Forzani), for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring.

New SportChek stores with Samsung OLED screens, tablets, and high tech were opened at West Edmonton Mall in 2014, Square One and Yorkdale in 2015, and a flagship SportChek/Atmosphere opened in Sherway Gardens in the GTA in July 2016.[2]

Gallery

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  The Sport Chek at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, opened in 2014 (this picture is from 2015).
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  The entrance to the Place d'Orléans in Orléans, Ontario in 2006, which includes a sign of the Sport Chek supercentre (now Sport Chek/Nevada Bob's Golf).
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  The Sport Chek at the Fairview Mall in Toronto, Ontario in 2013.
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  The entrance to the Fairview Mall in St. Catharines, Ontario in 2007, which includes a sign for the Sport Chek store.
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  The outside entrance to the Saks Fifth Avenue and Sport Chek at Sherway Gardens in Toronto, Ontario in 2017.

See also

• FGL Sports - Parent Company
• Canadian Tire - Parent Company
• Sports Experts - equivalent in Quebec
• Mark's (formerly Mark's Work Wearhouse) - another unit of Canadian Tire
• Atmosphere - another unit of FGL Sports

References

1. "Sport Chek". FGL Sports. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
2. Canadian Tire buys Sport Chek, Athletes World owner, The Guardian, 9-May-2011

External links

• Sport Chek website