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JD Sports

sports-fashion retail company
Organization brick_and_mortar Q6108019
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Summary

JD Sports is a brick and mortar[1]. It draws 3,418 Wikipedia views per month (brick and mortar category, ranking #6 of 30).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: public company[3], sport shop chain[4]
  • Owned by: Pentland Group[5]
  • Child organization or unit: BLK[6], Go Outdoors[7], Finish Line, Inc.[8], Shoe Palace[9]
  • Part of: FTSE 100 Index[10], Stoxx Europe 600 Index[11]
  • Commons category: JD Sports[12]
  • Industry: retail[13]
  • Chairperson: Régis Schultz[14]
  • Inception: 1981[15]
  • Official website: https://www.jdsports.de/[16], https://www.jdsports.fr/[17], https://www.jdplc.com/[18], https://www.jdsports.co.uk[19], https://www.jdsports.es/[20], https://www.jdsports.be/[21]
  • Product or material produced: clothing[22]
  • Legal form: private company limited by shares[23]
  • Operating area: United Kingdom[24], Germany[25], Belgium[26], Poland[27]
  • Social media followers: 6190[28], 2319[29], 17,372[30], 29,097[31]
  • P14750: 1174-D6FB-B619-D9BD-9425[32]

Why It Matters

JD Sports has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Related Entities

Belgium Germany London Stock Exchange public company United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . reuters.com. reuters.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . reuters.com. reuters.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Nw520 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 11
    Part of → FTSE 100 Index, Stoxx Europe 600 Index
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'ur']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: Stoxx Europe 600 Index"
  2. 22d ago · Robot8A · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facebook username → JDSports
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Facebook username: JDSports"
  3. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Stock exchange → —
    Country → —
    Child organization or unit → BLK, Go Outdoors, Finish Line, Inc. +1
    P14750 → 1174-D6FB-B619-D9BD-9425
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 1174-D6FB-B619-D9BD-9425, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  4. 10w ago · ~2026-42342-10 · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.jdsports.de/, https://www.jdsports.fr/, https://www.jdplc.com/ +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://jdsports.pl/"
  5. 22w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Companies house company id → 01888425
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30163|batch #30163]]: OpenCorporates company ID to Companies House company ID"
  6. 23w ago · A67-A67 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Official website → https://www.jdsports.de/, https://www.jdsports.fr/, https://www.jdplc.com/ +3
    Operating area → United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium +1
    Owned by → Pentland Group
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: sport shop chain"
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