(SGI) Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, the new holding company formed in 2018 from the merger of the Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt department stores, has decided that the management of its sporting goods business will move from Karstadt’s head office in Essen to the headquarter of SportScheck in Unterhaching near Munich. The SportScheck chain was acquired last December by Galeria, which has also been managing the Karstadt Sports chain, forming the biggest integrated sporting goods retail operation in Germany. More details in SGI Europe.