Sports check

Sportscheck GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1946
Seat	Unterhaching , Germany
management	Thomas Wanke; (Chairman of the Board) Robert Polland; Christian Marzinzik; Wolfram Wedge; (Chairman of the supervisory board)
Number of employees	1,150
Branch	Sporting goods retail including mail order
Website	sportscheck.com
	As of May 19, 2020

Sportscheck (spelling: SportScheck) is a German trading company for sporting goods. The company has been part of Signa Holding's Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof since 2019 .

history

In 1946 Otto Scheck in Munich tailored his first winter clothing collection from old military stocks and thus laid the foundation for the SportScheck company. SportScheck was partly taken over by the Otto Group in 1988 and completely in 1991.

One of the first artificial indoor climbing walls was erected in the stairwell next to the lift in the Munich headquarters on Sendlinger Straße in the 1970s, probably the first ever. It was built of natural stone (Wettersteinkalk) and planned by Reinhold Messner . With the move to Neuhauser Straße in 2016 , the main building and the wall were given up.

Sport Scheck was economically in deficit in the 21st century with falling sales. At the end of 2019, the Otto Group sold Sport Scheck to Signa Retail , the parent company of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof. Initially, this sale was subjected to an examination by the Federal Cartel Office . On February 10, 2020, it was announced that the result of the project was not harmful to competition. Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof has been expanding its sports segment since the merger and sees the acquisition as a strengthening of the stationary and online retail segment.

Companies

SportScheck is present in mail order , stationary and e-commerce in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The range (more than 30,000 items and 500 brands) is presented annually in four main catalogs with up to 620 pages and several special catalogs and offered in 17 sales outlets across Germany (as of end of 2019). There are branches in the following cities: Aachen , Augsburg , Berlin-Mitte , Bielefeld , Dresden , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Hanover , Kassel , Cologne , Leipzig , Magdeburg , Mönchengladbach , Munich , Reutlingen , Nuremberg and Stuttgart .

In addition, one outlet store is operated in Unterhaching and one at the Ostbahnhof in Munich.

At the beginning of 2016, the branch in Essen closed because the landlord's rent claims were too high. The Berlin-Steglitz branch closed on June 20, 2020.

SportScheck also organizes sporting events, such as the largest series of city runs in Germany.