{"id":73,"date":"2014-02-24T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlglbuzzen.wordpress.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-04-16T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T18:48:19","slug":"5-buzz-fgl-sports-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/2014\/02\/24\/5-buzz-fgl-sports-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s largest national sporting goods retailer, FGL Sports, has expanded its V.I.P. usage across 23 recently acquired stores."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138 alignleft\" alt=\"FGL Logos\" src=\"http:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fgl-logos.png?w=136\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" \/>FGL Sports operates several banners, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportchek.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sport Chek<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmosphere.ca\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Atmosphere<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsexperts.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Experts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Sports<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qc.hockeyexperts.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hockey Experts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.s3brdshp.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">S3<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadabobsgolf.ca\/nevadabobsgolf\/go\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada Bob\u2019s Golf<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">FGL Sports, a division of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/corp.canadiantire.ca\/EN\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Tire Corporation<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0Limited, continues to leverage V.I.P. with the addition of 800+ employees of recently acquired\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prohockeylife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Hockey Life<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">, bringing the total number of individuals managed within the application close to 13,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Located in Calgary, the HR and Payroll departments use V.I.P. to manage FGL Sports\u2019 corporate employees working across all 10 provinces.\u00a0FGL Sports, the largest and only national sporting goods retailer in Canada, became a DLGL client back in 1994 \u2013 a 20 year relationship that continues to grow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FGL Sports operates several banners, including\u00a0Sport Chek,\u00a0Atmosphere,\u00a0Sports Experts,\u00a0National Sports,\u00a0Hockey Experts,\u00a0S3\u00a0and\u00a0Nevada Bob\u2019s Golf FGL Sports, a division of\u00a0Canadian Tire Corporation\u00a0Limited, continues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,9],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-client-news","tag-canadian-tire-en","tag-fgl-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz.dlgl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}