LIDS Team Sports To Buy Dowdle Sports

September 24, 2012 /
Indianapolis Star, Dana Hunsinger Benbow

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120924/BUSINESS/120924021/LIDS-Team-Sports-buy-Dowdle-Sports-assets

LIDS Team Sports, an operating division of Indianapolis-based LIDS Sports Group, said today it will buy the assets of Tennessee-based Dowdle Sports’ team business.

Dowdle, a full-line dealer of outdoor and athletic sporting goods, will keep its e-commerce site www.DowdleSports.com and continue to function it independent of LIDS.

Dowdle has more than 29 years of experience in the team business.

As part of the deal, LIDS Team Sports will acquire Dowdle’s entire athletic inventory. Dowdle sales employees, whose client base in concentrated in Memphis, Mississippi and Arkansas, will now be employed by LIDS Team Sports but will maintain their offices in Cordova, Tenn.

They join a group of more than 160 LIDS Team Sports sales force members with a pesence in all 50 states. All sporting goods will be transitioned to LIDS’ 300,000 square-foot production facility in Indianapolis.


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