Go Outdoors

The high-profile outdoor equipment retailer Go Outdoors has established a successful business model built around the gap in the market for a destination chain covering the whole of the outdoor pursuits market. The company has been owned by JD Sports since 2017 and forms a key part of its burgeoning outdoor division alongside Blacks, Millets and Tiso. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Go Outdoors and the sports retail sector.

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In pictures: The most exciting new stores of 2024
2024-12-26T07:00:00+00:00By Blaise Cloran
2024 brought a range of new and innovative bricks-and-mortar stores to each corner of the country. As the year comes to an end, let’s revisit some of the best new stores that opened their doors
Analysis
Go Outdoors boss wants to reinvent the business and solve retail’s weather problem
2024-09-11T05:00:00+01:00By Ritika Bhoora
As Go Outdoors opens the “largest outdoor store in Europe”, Retail Week spoke to chief executive Lee Bagnall about the outdoors market, the outsized role weather plays in it and his mission to cater to everyone from dog walkers to mountaineers
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Go Outdoors has opened biggest outdoor store in Europe in York
2024-08-29T14:36:00+01:00By Ritika Bhoora
JD Sports-owned specialist retailer Go Outdoors has opened the “biggest outdoor store in Europe” at Vangarde Shopping Park in York.

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News

A former John Lewis site in York has been taken over by Go Outdoors

2024-08-13T06:30:00+01:00By Ritika Bhoora

JD sports-owned specialist retailer Go Outdoors has taken over the former John Lewis site in York to unveil the “biggest outdoor store in Europe”.

Analysis

The White Company, Matalan and ProCook reveal marketing strategies for the year ahead

2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00Promotional research for Royal Mail Marketreach

The White Company chief creative officer Mark Winstanley, Matalan omnichannel marketing director Jeff Howarth and ProCook chief marketing officer Angela Porter have spoken to Retail Week about why offline marketing remains critical in a new report out today

Back from the brink – what’s next for retail’s Covid casualties?
2020-07-10T06:00:00+01:00By Victoria McDermott
JD Sports boss says retail CVAs will ‘accelerate’ post-coronavirus
2020-07-08T06:00:00+01:00By Grace Bowden
Go Outdoors rent day pre-pack – is JD Sports right to shaft landlords?
2020-06-24T14:39:00+01:00By Grace Bowden and Hugh Radojev
JD Sports buys Go Outdoors back out of administration
2020-06-24T06:28:00+01:00By Grace Bowden

JD Sports’ Go Outdoors brand tumbles into administration
2020-06-22T06:17:00+01:00By Hugh Radojev
Go Outdoors buys Fishing Republic out of administration
2019-01-11T16:15:00+00:00By Rosie Shepard
Agenda: Primark, JD Sports, Debenhams and Bonmarché
2018-04-13T05:00:00+01:00
Blower’s retail cartoon: Retail Week Awards winners
2018-03-23T07:00:00+00:00By Patrick Blower

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