Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd. (

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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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, while

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are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands. In 2011, Canadian Tire bought out full corporate ownership stakes of 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 Sport Chek stores with Samsung OLED screens, tablets, and high tech were opened at West Edmonton Mall in 2014, Square One Shopping Centre and

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in 2015, and a flagship SportChek/Atmosphere opened in

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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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