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British shopping and sports group Frasers Group is taking over up to twenty stores from Sports Unlimited Retail, the company behind Perry Sport, Aktiesport and Sprinter, which declared bankruptcy in early December. Curator Kees van de Meent told ANP this.
This would involve a partial takeover of the company, as Sports Unlimited Retail has a total of 54 stores in the Netherlands, employing around 1,100 people. Frasers Group already has five sports stores in the Netherlands under the Sports World banner.
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Van de Meent couldn’t say yet how many and which Sports Unlimited Retail stores would ultimately be taken over. This means that it cannot be said which Sports Unlimited Retail store employees are affected and which are not, added the curator.
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Curator previously said his company had been losing money for years before a court in Amsterdam declared it bankrupt last month. Until 2016, Perry Sport and Aktiesport were still part of the Unlimited Sports Group (USG), which went bankrupt that year.
Frasers Group owns the Sports Direct sports chain, among others, with more than five hundred stores in the UK and 170 in the European Union. The company also owns the British Flannel department store chain, which has fifty branches in the UK.
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