GENERAL MEETING AND GENERAL MEETING OF INTERSPORT GERMANY
INTERSPORT Management Board and Supervisory Board discharged with a large majority after sales growth and positive annual results for the 2020/2021 financial year, Supervisory Board unanimously re-elected. Roadmap for the current 2021/2022 financial year further determined by the consistent implementation of the “BEST IN SPORTS” strategy with a focus on the best product ranges and the networking of stationary and online business as part of the omnichannel approach. 463 newly signed CI contracts to strengthen the INTERSPORT brand. Unanimous re-election of the Supervisory Board confirms future course to strengthen quality leadership.
INTERSPORT is on course for growth and for the future: After the first virtual general and plenary assembly in the past pandemic year, Germany’s largest sports retail association held its annual meeting in 2022 in Heilbronn with a clearly positive atmosphere. 147 voting members attended the General Assembly, to which all members of the cooperative were invited on May 10, 2022. The General Assembly represents the rights of all members who operate as system partners in the INTERSPORT association.
Strategy “BEST IN SPORTS” is supported and shows further successes – with new CI contracts since October 01, 2021, a clear growth path has been followed
The further implementation of the “BEST IN SPORTS” strategy will determine the timetable of INTERSPORT in the current 2021/2022 financial year. “We have grown in sales and also closed the financial year with a very positive result. This shows that we are well positioned as a group and are already successfully taking action on many topics of the BEST IN SPORTS strategy: be it in the area expansion, in the shop formats, the implementation of the new CI contracts, the introduction of selective sales for our exclusive brands , the virtual trade fair and the successful start-up of our new warehouse. The renewed confirmation of the strategic path taken by the owners of INTERSPORT creates planning security: This is a strong, positive signal to our partners in the dealer association and to the industry,” says Knud Hansen, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of INTERSPORT Deutschland eG. The focus of the strategy implementation, which is intended to transform the purchasing association into a customer-driven innovation community, remains operational excellence and quality leadership in the core business as well as the expansion and development of new digital business models.
“We are pleased about the confirmation and thank you for the trust that was and is placed in us. In the INTERSPORT management, our goal is to consistently continue on our way towards BEST IN SPORTS in dialogue between the network dealers of the service center and our partners in the industry. We are thus developing Germany’s leading ecosystem for sport and health – with innovative concepts to further expand the position of INTERSPORT as omnichannel market leader and multi-brand specialist in sports retail and to put it on a solid footing economically. In the past financial year, we were very successful overall at INTERSPORT,” says INTERSPORT CEO Dr. alexander v Preen and adds: “Against the background of the still very fragile framework conditions with interrupted supply chains, increasing freight costs and wholesale prices as well as a pandemic situation that is still not ending globally, I am very pleased that as of October 1, 2021, 463 dealers will already have the new CI signed contracts. This is a clear commitment from our dealers to the INTERSPORT brand and the BEST IN SPORTS strategy. We would like to thank the owners of INTERSPORT for this trust. We will continue to consistently promote the future course of INTERSPORT in dialogue with you.” The new CI contracts aim to implement binding and uniform criteria for addressing customers under the INTERSPORT brand as well as defined quality standards.
Full discharge of the committees and elections to the Supervisory Board
The General Assembly approved the actions of both the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for the 2020/2021 financial year with a large majority. As scheduled, the supervisory board members Knud Hansen, INTERSPORT Knudsen (Kiel), Harald L. Schedl, management consultant (Düsseldorf) and Oliver Krumholz, INTERSPORT Krumholz (Neuwied) stood for re-election. All three members were unanimously confirmed in office for the next three years. At the constitutive meeting that took place after the general assembly, Knud Hansen was re-elected chairman. Oliver Krumholz will continue to act as deputy.
“I am happy about my re-election. I see this as an order to continue to constructively and moderately accompany the future and growth course we have taken in the interest of the entire dealer community. In view of the continuing challenging framework conditions, it is important to secure the future of INTERSPORT and also to support courageous decisions. The Supervisory Board and Management Board congratulate the re-elected members of the Supervisory Board and look forward to constructive cooperation in the committees,” Knud Hansen commented on the outcome of the election. “I would like to congratulate Oliver Krumholz and Harald L. Schedl on their re-election and, on behalf of the entire supervisory board and board of directors of INTERSPORT Deutschland eG, I would like to thank them for their commitment to the cooperative. Both have already decisively influenced the development of INTERSPORT in the past few years through important decisions. We look forward to your coming term of office”, concludes the chairman of the supervisory board of INTERSPORT Deutschland eG.
The following are represented on the supervisory board of INTERSPORT Deutschland eG: Knud Hansen (Chairman), Kiel; Oliver Krumholz, (Vice Chairman), Neuwied; Christoph Borgmann, Krefeld; dr Werner Holzmayer, Cologne; Jürgen Kettschau, Korbach; Stefan Rübsam, Calw; Harald L. Schedl, Dusseldorf; Franziska Schölzel, Großpösna; Hansjörg Stähle, Villingen-Schwenningen.
Advisory board of the system partner INTERSPORT GmbH newly elected
At the general assembly of the system partner INTERSPORT GmbH, which took place on the morning of May 10, 2022 in Heilbronn, Andreas Wolfstetter, Obernburg, retired as scheduled and did not stand for re-election. In his place, Oliver Krauss, Sport Krauss (Landstuhl) was unanimously elected as a member of the Advisory Board. Markus Matern remains in the office of chairman, his deputy is still Cordula Weiß. The following are represented on the advisory board of the system partner INTERSPORT GmbH: Markus Matern (chairman of the advisory board), Cordula Weiß (deputy), Oliver Grimm, Thomas Grimm, Oliver Krauß and Heiko Schmidt.
INTERSPORT Deutschland eG: Our business is to move people
We are absolutely convinced: Sport is an elixir of life. This is our DNA. From day one, we move more people with our partners than anyone else. Nobody can do it like we can. That is our strength: 3 million athletes come and go with us. With around 800 local champions, over 1,500 local stadiums and over 1 million m2 of playing space, we are the home stadium for all sports fans. A place of like-minded people and experiences and energy. This is how we write stories and history. For more than 65 years we have been the front runner for the sports and health business. And wherever we look, we see people and opportunities to take action. Each of us is working hard to achieve this, in local shops and in the digital world. So we are what we have always been: BEST IN SPORTS.