Houston, Texas – Tennis Categorical introduced that Brad Blume, Founding father of Tennis Categorical, has re-acquired full possession within the retail and on-line enterprise.
Beforehand, Blume had offered a majority curiosity in Tennis Categorical to Signa Sports activities United (SSU) however had remained President of Tennis Categorical and a minority shareholder. Blume mentioned that given latest monetary challenges confronted by SSU, each SSU and Blume agreed it might be in the perfect curiosity of the corporate for Blume to re-acquire Tennis Categorical. The change in possession was dealt with privately and went into impact November 10, 2023.
“Lately, a number of information retailers mistakenly reported that Tennis Categorical was nonetheless a part of SSU and was concerned in chapter proceedings,” Blume mentioned. “In fact, that is utterly inaccurate. I’m the only proprietor of Tennis Categorical and have re-established our long-standing partnerships with our distributors.”
“We’re wanting ahead to a robust vacation season and a sturdy 2024 as we construct on the entrepreneurial spirit that has efficiently helped Tennis Categorical change into one of many world’s largest tennis retailers,” mentioned Mr. Blume. “Buyer satisfaction stays our primary precedence, and we try to ship a WOW expertise to every buyer.”
As a cornerstone to the Houston enterprise group for greater than 20 years, Tennis Categorical was named one among Houston’s Quickest Rising Corporations in 2021 and 2022 by Houston Enterprise Journal. Their headquarters, warehouse, and superstore are housed in a 90,000+ square-foot constructing that has change into a vacation spot for leisure, junior, and collegiate gamers in addition to ATP and WTA tour professionals. A full-size, indoor tennis courtroom hosts seasonal occasions together with new merchandise trunk gross sales, clinics, coaches and captain conferences, in addition to branded demo days.
Tennis Categorical gives a wide array of tennis, pickleball, and padel gear to shoppers throughout America. Acknowledged as an business chief, the corporate leverages its shopping for energy to supply the best number of tennis footwear, racquets, baggage, attire, and tools for all ranges of gamers. Tennis Categorical presents free, 2-day transport on most orders, in addition to a hassle-free return coverage, and a worth match assure.
Tennis Categorical proudly helps the tennis group on each the nationwide and native degree as a long-time companion of quite a lot of organizations together with america Tennis Affiliation (USTA), Houston Tennis Affiliation (HTA), Nationwide Junior Tennis League (NJTL), Houston Women Tennis Affiliation (HLTA), West Houston Women Tennis Affiliation (WHLTA), Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), Serve Up a Treatment Breast Most cancers Consciousness, in addition to numerous faculties, golf equipment, non-profits, and humanitarian organizations.
Tennis Categorical additionally promotes environmental duty and is honored to work with RecycleBalls.org, a non-profit program that collects and converts used tennis balls into recycled supplies.
In keeping with the USTA, tennis participation has grown by 1 million gamers in 2022 leading to 23.6 million gamers worldwide. It’s the third consecutive 12 months that the game has seen a rise since 2020, throughout the pandemic.
Mr. Blume shares that Tennis Categorical has seen constant development and stays a thriving enterprise. He’s excited in regards to the future and invitations shoppers to study extra by visiting www.TennisExpress.com or following Tennis Categorical throughout all social media channels together with Instagram, Fb, TicTok, X (previously generally known as Twitter), Pinterest, Snapchat, and YouTube.
