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Last Updated: 2026
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JD Sports Fashion

Rank#3305
Market Cap4.68B
CountryUnited Kingdom
Summary
History
Mission
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JD Sports Fashion plc engages in the retail of branded sports fashion and outdoor clothing, footwear, accessories, and equipment for kids, women, and men. It operates through Sports Fashion and Outdoor segments. The company also retails leisure goods, sports goods, fishing gear, watches, jewellery, camping goods, boats, and bicycles, as well as distributes sports apparel and accessories, footwear, and apparel. It offers its products under the JD, Size?, Footpatrol, Finish Line, Shoe Palace, DTLR, Livestock, Sprinter, Sport Zone, Sizeer, JD Gyms, Tessuti, Scotts, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, Fishing Republic, and Naylors brands. The company also operates online business. In addition, it licenses fashion brands and operates fitness centers; operates as online own label women's fashion retailer; and manufactures and distributes professional fitness equipment. The company operates 3,402 stores. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Dubai, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain and the Canary Islands, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bury, the United Kingdom. JD Sports Fashion plc is a subsidiary of Pentland Group Limited.
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The company was established by John Wardle and David Makin , trading from a single shop in Bury, Greater Manchester, in 1981. The company opened a store in the Arndale Centre in Manchester in 1983. Pentland Group bought Wardle's and Makin's shares for £44.6M in May 2005, so acquiring 45% of the business.

Missionarrow
Making hard-to-find, exclusive apparel accessible and desirable to all consumers.
Visionarrow
To be the leading global fashion and lifestyle sports retailer for all customers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Sports

https://in.investing.com/equities/jd-sports-fashion

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JD.L/profile?p=JD.L

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jd-sports-fashion-plc

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

https://www.jdplc.com

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Leadership team
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Mr. Neil Greenhalgh (CFO & Director)
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Mr. Regis Schultz (Chief Exec. Officer)
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Ms. Siobhan Mawdsley (Company Sec.)
Products / Services
Fashion, Retail, Sporting Goods, Textiles
Number of Employees
Above 50,000
Address
Bury, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Established
1981-01-01
Net Income
S_500M_1B
Revenue
$1B+
Traded as
JD.L
Website
https://www.jdplc.com
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Last Updated: 2026
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