Business news : ANWR gets Dutch license for Sport 2000

After several months of talks, the Ariston-Nord-West-Ring (ANWR) Group has taken over the Sport 2000 license in the Netherlands.

Eighty Dutch stores carrying the Sport 2000 banner are to become members of Fair Play International Sports, which is part of the ANWR-Garant organization in the Netherlands. The deal reinforces the influence of this group in the Dutch sports market, where it already deals with 130 independent sports stores. It will function with two units, one of them consisting of the independent stores and the other comprising the Sport 2000 members.

Separately, the ANWR-Garant organization in the Netherlands has 425 members in shoe retailing, jointly operating 650 shoe stores. The takeover comes after Euretco, the previous owner of the Dutch license, agreed to merge with Intres, another buying group, which included the Intersport stores in the Netherlands. The tie-up could only go ahead if the new entity divested one of the two sports retail concepts.

by SGI Europe through Ispo Newsblog