Modell's (plným názvem "Modell's Sporting Goods") je prodejce sportovního zboží na severozápadě USA. Modell's carries both sporting goods and related apparel. Modell's v současné době provozuje kolem 140 obchodů v deseti státech a D.C. The company reported revenue of approximately $635 million dollars in 2007.
Historie
Řetězec byl založen jako jeden obchod Morrisem A. Modellem v roce 1889 v New York City, making it possibly the third oldest sporting goods store in North America (after James F. Brine's in Massachusetts and Milwaukee's Burghardt Sporting Goods.) Modell, an immigrant from Hungary, opened the first location on Cortlandt Street in Lower Manhattan.
Through the years it has remained a family owned business passing through four generations of the Modell family. While best known for being a sporting goods retailer, Modell's also operated a chain of "full-line" discount retailers in the New York-metro area known as "Modell's Shopper's World" (and for a short time as "White-Modells" until the name was reverted back to "Modell's Shoppers World) from the early 1960's up until 1989 when the company decided to focus on its sporting goods operations partly due to increased competition in the discount retailer market.
Currently Modell's operates 144 stores mainly in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. In recent years however, it has begun to expand to Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia as well as Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Their flagship store is located in the middle of New York City's Times Square.
Poslání
Modell's approach as "Your Hometown Sporting Goods Store" through local specialized offerings, community relationships and programs such as Team Weeks, which assists local schools, leagues, and non profits, has made it a very successful company through the years. Modell's #1 mission statement is "Listen, Respect, and Respond" to the needs of their customers, associates, and vendors. It also has numerous other sub-mission statements that it has its employees memorize. Modell's is also the sponsor of many east coast sports teams including the, New York Mets, New York Yankees, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Phantoms, and the Washington Nationals.
