New sporting goods store opens in Christiansburg

Academy Sports is an unfamiliar retail brand in this market, but is well known to shoppers in Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.aiming at the same market as dicks sporting goodsis located across the street and is trying to compete with the sporting goods department. walmart and the goalthere are also stores nearby.

Academy Sports, a 55,000-square-foot space, carries camping, fishing and hunting equipment, including guns and ammunition. Equipment for organized sports such as basketball, golf, and volleyball. Recreational goods such as barbecues, patio furniture, skateboards, trampolines, and clocks. Foreign manufacturers such as China, Vietnam, El Salvador and Bangladesh produce a large share of the goods sold in the stores, with logistics centralized at the global sourcing office in Hong Kong. These details can be found in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Katy, Texas-based company posted a profit of $628 million on revenue of about $6.4 billion for the 12 months ended Jan. 28.

Academy spokeswoman Liz Arnold said company officials expect to hire 60 people at the Christiansburg store, which opened Nov. 6.

owner seagull group describes Christiansburg Marketplace as a “redeveloping 200,000 square foot shopping center with new anchors, retail space and a new signalized entrance on Franklin Street.”