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JJB Sports plc (stylized as JJb sports) was a British sports retailer. On 24 September 2012, shares in JJB Sports were suspended and the firm called in administrators. On 1 October 2012, it was announced that Sports Direct had purchased part of the business including 20 stores, the brand and its website for £28.3 million.〔(Over 2,000 Jobs to Go As JJB Stores Close ), Sky News, 1 October 2012〕 ==Corporate history== The original JJB sportshop was founded in the early 1900s. It was expanded and incorporated in 1971,〔 when ex-footballer and supermarket chain operator Dave Whelan〔 acquired a single sports shop in Wigan and immediately opened a second sports goods outlet in his Sutton, St Helens, supermarket. The original JJB sports store was established by John Jarvis Broughton in the early 1900s and later was purchased by John Joseph Bradburn. As these initials were all the same the business was known locally as JJB's. When Whelan bought the store from Bradburn, he kept the JJB name〔 During the early 1990s, the store portfolio grew to 120 stores by 1994, at which point the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange. In 1998, JJB bought its largest domestic competitor Sports Division. The acquisition made JJB one of the largest sports retailers in the United Kingdom, focusing on sports clothing rather than sports equipment. It hand got to a sales total of £372.97 million (US$636.60 million) in 1999.〔 In October 2002, Duncan Sharpe, chief executive of JJB Sports, committed suicide. Mr Sharpe had been with the company for 19 years, and was the son-in-law of the chairman, Dave Whelan. In July 2002, it had also opened a new branch in Amsterdam. By 2005, JJB had expanded to over 430 stores throughout the United Kingdom〔 and Ireland.〔 On 8 June 2007, Mr Whelan sold his residual 29% stake in the firm for £190 million to Icelandic financial group Exista and Chris Ronnie, a sports retailer who previously worked at Umbro and Sports Direct.〔〔〔(JJB founder David Whelan sells up ), BBC News, 8 June 2007〕 On 19 October 2007, JJB bought a 10.1% stake in Umbro in a move to protect its stake in the market for England football shirts. This stake was sold in its entirety to Nike in March 2008. In December 2007, JJB announced that they had purchased the Original Shoe Company for £5 million. JJB considered converting some of the smaller JJB High Street stores into OSC stores, keeping OSC as a separate division of the JJB group which would share JJB's buying, financing and marketing functions. In September 2008, JJB released a less than impressive set of interim results,〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕 which included a warning from the auditors raising doubts over JJB's future as a going concern. In October 2008, the value of JJB shares fell to less than 10% of the value, at the time of Dave Whelan's share sale to Chris Ronnie and Exista. This was partly in response to the interim financial report, and also as a result of Coface removing credit insurance. This was from debts owed by JJB to their suppliers.〔(JJB Sports under pressure as insurers pull plug ), Daily Telegraph〕 Three weeks later a 34% share was purchased by Sports Direct. On 10 February 2009, JJB put their Qube and Original Shoe Company subsidiaries into administration after failing to find a buyer. By the end of the week the Group secured a reprieve from its bankers to avoid putting the whole group into administration.〔(JJB wins stay of execution as Stylo folds ), ''The Independent'', 14 February 2009〕 On 13 October 2009, JJB admitted that former executives were being investigated by both HM Revenue & Customs and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.〔(Organised crime bureau probes ex-JJB directors ), ''The Times'', 14 October 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「JJB Sports」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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