Foot Locker History

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The Company Description of Its Time

Foot Locker is filed as a leading global athletic footwear and apparel retailer, whose stores offer the latest in athletic-inspired performance products, manufactured primarily by the leading athletic brands, for a wide variety of activities including basketball, running, and training. The scale is given in full, and this page preserves the filing's figures with their era attached: its 1,911 stores are located in 21 countries, including 1,171 in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam, 129 in Canada, 518 in Europe, and a combined 93 in Australia and New Zealand. The domestic stores average 2,400 selling square feet and the international stores 1,500 - a mall retailer's footprint, measured the way mall retailers measure it. The historical record itself adds the honest footnote this rebuild keeps: the information regarding store numbers may have changed; check their site for the most current store count.

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Footaction is a national athletic footwear and apparel retailer whose primary customers are young males that seek street-inspired athletic styles; its 319 stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico focus on marquee footwear and branded apparel, averaging 2,900 selling square feet. Lady Foot Locker is a leading U.S. retailer of athletic footwear, apparel and accessories for active women - major brands plus casual wear and assortments for running, walking, toning, and fitness - with 415 stores averaging 1,300 selling square feet. Kids Foot Locker is a national children's athletic retailer offering the largest selection of brand-name athletic footwear, apparel and accessories for children, in an environment geared to appeal to both parents and children: 301 stores, averaging 1,400 selling square feet. Kids' products are described on this page, as across the directory, in strictly product terms.

Champs Sports is one of the largest mall-based specialty athletic footwear and apparel retailers in North America, differentiating itself by presenting complete product assortments - footwear, apparel, accessories and a focused assortment of equipment - in a select number of sporting activities: 552 stores across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, averaging 3,500 selling square feet, the portfolio's biggest box. The direct-to-customer segment is multi-branded and multi-channeled: Eastbay, one of its affiliates, is among the largest direct marketers in the United States, providing the high school athlete with a complete sports solution including footwear, apparel, equipment, team licensed and private-label merchandise. In 2008 the Company purchased CCS, an internet and catalog retailer of skateboard equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories for teenaged boys, serving the 12-18 year old skater; during 2009 it opened two CCS stores, in New Jersey and California, averaging 2,000 selling square feet, complementing the catalog and internet business acquired in November 2008. The segment also operates the websites aligned with the store banners - footlocker.com, ladyfootlocker.com, kidsfootlocker.com, footaction.com, champssports.com and ccs.com - each carried in the References under its banner's official site.

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