Decathlon was born in France in 1976, is active in 72 countries and calls itself the world's largest sporting goods retailer. It designs and sells sports clothing and gear across many in-house brands, such as Simond for climbing and Forclaz for trekking, with a focus on affordable hiking, camping and cycling gear for people of all levels. Decathlon's own brand structure includes category specialists such as Quechua, Kipsta and Btwin, plus expert labels including Van Rysel and Kiprun; they are Decathlon lines rather than unrelated companies.
Same category, HQ in France
ELELGE Sport is a French manufacturer of custom sublimated teamwear for clubs and associations, covering sports from rugby and football to handball and padel. Founded in 2019 by former club officials, it is based in Vitrolles near Marseille and delivers made-to-order kits in around four weeks.
Custom team sportswear
SASalomon is an outdoor-sports brand founded in Annecy in 1947 and part of Amer Sports, according to its own privacy notice. It began with ski-binding parts and expanded into boots, skis, snowboards and trail-running footwear, including the XA PRO, XT-6 and S/LAB ranges. Its company history also describes ski innovations such as the Skade toe piece and later footwear development; those dates are milestones in the brand's history, not claims that every current product uses the same technology.
Trail, hiking and winter sports gear
BABabolat was founded in 1875 in Lyon, France, when it invented tennis string, and calls itself the oldest racquet sports company in the world. It makes racquets, strings, shoes, balls, shuttlecocks, bags, apparel and accessories for tennis, padel and badminton, and says it is the preferred brand of today's and tomorrow's champions in those sports.
Racquet sports equipment and footwear
LELe Coq Sportif is a French sportswear brand founded in 1882 by Emile Camuset. It makes sports clothing, footwear and team apparel, and outfits national teams and athletes including the French Olympic team.
Sportswear, footwear and team apparel
RORossignol is a winter-sports brand whose range includes skis, boots and mountain apparel. The Rossignol Group's corporate press kit traces its start to 1907, when carpenter Abel Rossignol made wooden skis in Voiron, France; the kit places group functions and a racing-ski workshop near the original site. Its goals for waste and carbon reduction are forward-looking commitments in that dated kit, not achieved results. Equipment specifications and production locations should be checked by model rather than inferred from the brand's heritage.
Ski and snowboard equipment
BLblackcrows is an independent French freeski brand founded in Chamonix in 2006 by professional freeskiers Camille Jaccoux and Bruno Compagnet. It designs skis and outerwear that set out to combine beauty and efficiency, with strong design identity and uncompromising performance for contemporary skiing.
Freeski skis and outerwear
BVBV Sport makes compression sleeves, socks and recovery gear for sport, manufactured at its own unit in Saint-Étienne. It was founded in 1998 around a patented inverse pressure gradient sock.
Compression sportswear and recovery socks
CAFrench Riviera label blending technical cycling kit with fashion-led colours and an expanding outdoor and running collection. Its collections extend from road and gravel kit into running, hiking and casual pieces, combining technical fabrics with a Riviera-led visual identity.
Premium cycling and outdoor apparel
