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Sports dealer Dick’s Sporting Goods Plant, Foot Lichen, to buy the seller of shoes in many shopping centers. For about 2.4 billion US dollars.
Dick’s is the largest chain of sports in the USA.
Foot easily fought itself as a chain in the mall in Mall, but has a massive footprint of shops ETWA in 20 countries. According to Dick’s, Foot easily has a wide range of buyers to the chain.
“The Foot Lieben -Banner, which brings with a more urban consumer and the awareness of basketball and sneaker culture, can complement the customer of Dick who twisted towards athletes and suburban families,” wrote the analyst Cristina Fernández from Telsey Advisory Group on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Dick’s investors did not welcome the news, in view of the falling sales of Foot loose and Waves of the shop closures. They sent the stock by more than 14%on Thursday.
Ed Stack, Executive Chairman, seemed to remedy this in his statement and said that his company had “admired” for a long time “the cultural meaning”, which was easily built up by Foot.
“We believe that there are sensible opportunities for growth in front of us,” said Stack. “Together we will use the complementary strengths of both organizations to better meet the broad and developing needs of global sports consumers.”
Together, the two retailers have to wade the chopped waters of new tariffs for imports, including shoes. And they will face the growing challenge of large brands that try to sell more shoes directly to the buyers themselves.
“Entry to Dicks will easily position Foot even better to expand the sneaker culture, to increase the Omnichannel experience for our customers and brand partners and to improve our position in the industry,” said Mary Dillon, CEO from Foot Lich, in a explanation.
Dick’s says it plans to keep foot locksmith as a chain of its own under its own name after the deal will go through in the second half of this year. The shareholders of the foot lockers and the state supervisory authorities still have to approve it.