Corporate Profile for Sports & Recreation Inc., dated Feb. 16, 1996.available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: Feb. 16, 1996 Company name: Sports & Recreation Inc.
Address: 4701 W. Hillsborough Ave.
Tampa, FL 33614
Telephone No.: 813/886-9688 Chief Executive Officer: Jim W. Bradke Chief Financial Officer: Stanley E. Skarda Investor Relations Contact: Miriela "Kitty" De Jesus Business number: 813/886-9688, Ext. 143 Public Relations Contact: Thomas Jupena Business number: 813/886-9688, Ext. 132 Trading symbol: NYSE:WON Industry: Sporting Goods/Retail Company description: Sports & Recreation Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WON) is a specialty retailer of quality name brand sporting equipment and athletic footwear and apparel, operating 80 large format sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport superstores in 27 states principally under the name "Sports & Rec," "Sports" and "Sports Unlimited Sports Unlimited is a sports program of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. It features different kinds of sports, as well as ordinary and prominent sports figures. It is hosted by Dyan Castillejo and Marc Nelson. " in conjunction with the local community name, such as Tucson Sports & Rec, Tampa Sports or Orlando Sports Unlimited. Sports' business strategy is to offer its customers the best value in sporting goods through the widest assortment of quality name brand merchandise and superior customer service at everyday low prices. The Sports concept was developed in 1979 by its Chief Executive Officer, Jim Bradke. Each store offers approximately 125,000 stock keeping units ("SKUs") across nine major departments (fishing, hunting, camping, marine, tennis/golf, shoes, team sports, men's active wear and women's active wear) and over 100 sub-departments. Sports maintains low operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales due to the sales volume efficiencies associated with its destination superstore format and management's emphasis on cost control. The destination nature of the Sports superstore strategy leads to flexibility in selecting new store sites and allows for savings in occupancy and advertising expenses. Sports currently employes approximately 6,500 persons; approximately 200 are employed at the executive offices and approximately 6,300 are employed at the store level. CONTACT: Sports & Recreation Inc., Tampa Stanley E. Skarda, 813/886-9688 |
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