JD Sports CEO Régis Schultz at the World Retail Congress in Paris. The U.K.’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion is to buy Alabama-based athletic fashion retailer Hibbett Inc. for about ...

Birmingham-based sports retailer Hibbett is being acquired by U.K.-based JD Sports in a deal totaling $1.08 billion. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the deal will create a company with combined ...

Hibbett received and accepted a bid from JD Sports. This deal - and the price - brings into question our thesis for Hibbett. We are very unsure about our understanding of sneaker retailing and we did ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Faithfull is London-based and covers retail and real estate It’s fair to say that when JD Sports goes, it goes big. After ...

JD Sports offers $87.50 per Hibbett share in cash Hibbett shares jump about 19% at noon; JD Sports ended up 3.8% "Being part of a larger global retailer like JD Sports gives Hibbett more resources ...

JD Sports Fashion on Tuesday said it had struck an agreement to buy Alabama headquartered sportswear seller Hibbett for $1.1 billion in a deal aimed at further boosting the British retailer’s position ...