These are the Gresvig stores that can disappear – E24

When Gresvig filed for bankruptcy in February, the company owned 93 sports stores under the G-Sport, G-Max and Intersport chains.

At least 48 of these will remain in the giant group of Sport1 owner Bjørn Rune Gjelsten and former Gresvig owner Olav Nils Sunde, if the Competition Authority allows it.

On the other hand, Gjelsten and Sunde have announced that there are 36 stores that they do not want to take over. Håvard Wiker, co-owner of the bankruptcy property in Gresvig, is closing these.

Then there are nine stores. These are not part of future plans for the new billionaire Sport Holding, but may be at a later date.

If they don’t, it means that a total of 45 old Gresvig stores may be closed as a result of the bankruptcy.

Close seven in Oslo

Neither side has wanted to present lists of stores that are and are not included in Sport Holding’s future plans, but E24 can now present a full description, region by region.

The largest number of Gresvig stores before the bankruptcy did not surprise Oslo.

Gjelsten and Sunde plan to take over 9 of 16.

This overview doesn’t say anything about the 99 franchise stores that were part of the Gresvig system. These are not part of the plan submitted to the Competition Authority and are therefore free to choose where they want to go.

With the Stovner, Linderud, Furuset and Veitvet closures, shops in East Oslo are considered to a lesser extent.

President Petter Schouw-Hansen of Sport Holding’s subsidiary Ino Holding will not comment on the matter at E24. He points out that it is an ongoing process that is now being processed by the Competition Authority.

It should also be emphasized that the color red does not necessarily mean closure.

There are still nine stores in Norway that Gjelsten and Sunde haven’t decided on, but neither housing manager Håvard Wiker nor Schouw-Hansen at Ino Holding will tell you what they are.

E24 may indicate that the red stores in Oslo will be closed, but on the rest of the maps we only know which stores are included in the plan that the Competition Authority is currently processing, not which have been decided to close.

Only Hamar will join

Sport Holding, therefore, plans to bring the majority of the Gresvig stores in Oslo.

The same does not apply to Akershus County 2019. Neither Asker nor Lørenskog feel that either of their two stores are part of the plan submitted by Gjelsten and Sunde to the Competition Authority.

The largest cuts are made inland and in the Bergen area.

When Gresvig filed for bankruptcy, there were seven stores in Inland County.

Gjelsten and Sunde intend to take over only one: in Hamar.

At the same time, Sport Holding has planned a future with two of the nine Gresvig stores in Vestland County Township.

A total of seven of these were in the Bergen municipality, but now the vast majority of them are gone.

There are two stores in each shopping center.

In Buskerud and Østfold, most stores are retained.

But one may notice future plans in the southwest of Østfold, where both stores in Fredrikstad are open, while neither of them in Sarpsborg is.

Sport 1 has previously had a Löplabbet in Fredrikstad and has also signed a lease for a new store in the Worste shopping center in the town of Planks.

The rivals on the other side of Glomma are XXL, but there is no Sport 1 store.

In Møre og Romsdal, there were only two stores owned by Gresvig before the bankruptcy. Both G-Sport and G-Max in Ålesund are among others.

Even in what was Telemark County, there will be no change, as G-Max in Skien is among the 48 selected.

In Sogn og Fjordane, Gresvig did not own a store.

The same applies to former Finnmark County. This is how it is in the north:

And finally, in the south / southwest: Gjelsten and Sunde plan to keep most of the stores in Rogaland.