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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michelle Chapman

Dick's Sporting Goods to buy struggling shoe chain Foot Locker for $2.4 billion

Dick's-Foot Locker - (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Dick’s Sporting Goods is buying the struggling footwear chain Foot Locker for about $2.4 billion, the second buyout of a major footwear company in as many weeks as business leaders struggle with uncertainty over how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact companies that make many of their products overseas.

Dick’s said Thursday that it expects to run Foot Locker as a standalone unit and keep the Foot Locker brands, which include Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS and Japanese sneaker brand atmos.

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