Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd. (

doing business as A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. Registering the fictitious name with ...

Sport Chek) is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the

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and

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, while

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and

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are served by its sister brand

Sports Experts Sports Experts Inc. is a major Canadian sports-retailer franchise primarily located in Quebec, Canada. It is part of FGL Sports (formerly The Forzani Group), itself part of the Canadian Tire group. History Sports Experts was founded in 1967. It ...

instead. Its parent company,

FGL Sports Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited () is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas station ...

, also owns over a dozen sporting brands. In 2011,

Canadian Tire Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited () is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas station ...

bought out full corporate ownership stakes of Sport Chek's parent company,

(then known as Forzani), for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring. New Sport Chek stores with Samsung OLED screens, tablets, and high tech were opened at

West Edmonton Mall West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a large shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group. It is the second most visited mall in Canada, after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Met ...

in 2014,

Square One Shopping Centre Square One Shopping Centre, or simply Square One, is a Canadian shopping mall located in Mississauga, Ontario. It is the largest shopping centre in Ontario and the second largest shopping centre in Canada, after West Edmonton Mall. It has over ...

and

Yorkdale Shopping Centre Yorkdale Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the southwest corner of the Ontario Highway 401, Highway 401 and Allen Road interchange. It spans of selling space and has sales of per square foot ( per square metre ...

in 2015, and a flagship SportChek/Atmosphere opened in

Sherway Gardens Sherway Gardens is a shopping mall in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the interchange of Ontario Highway 427, Highway 427 with Queen Elizabeth Way and the Gardiner Expressway. The mall spans of selling space and 215 stor ...

in the GTA in July 2016.''Canadian Tire buys Sport Chek, Athletes World owner'', The Guardian, 9-May-2011
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Sport Chek website
{{Canadian Tire Companies based in Calgary Sporting goods retailers of Canada Canadian brands Canadian Tire Retail companies established in 1999 1999 establishments in Alberta

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