Rascal Clothing Co-Founder Billy Wingrove buys back brand from JD Sports Leave a comment
Billy Wingrove of YouTube channel F2Freestylers fame, who co-founded Rascal Clothes along with his soccer expertise tutorials associate Jeremy Lynch in 2014, has taken again full management of the model which JD Sports activities acquired majority shares of in 2019.
Wingrove is without doubt one of the pioneers of product and model constructing to come back out of the YouTube group. Together with Lynch, he grew the Rascal Clothes youth and grownup sports activities trend model off the again of the success of the F2Freestylers YouTube platform, the world’s largest soccer social channel with over 20 million followers between YouTube and Instagram.
Rascal Clothes was initially going to be a part of the deal that noticed JD Sports activities offload “15 enticing however non-core manufacturers” to arch rival Frasers Group in December 2022, however final month it was revealed it might not be included.
On taking again sole possession of Rascal Clothes (for an undisclosed sum), Wingrove stated: “I’ve had an unimaginable journey partnering up with JD Sports activities, however now could be essentially the most thrilling time of all as I’m so proud to have the ability to say that I’m the only real proprietor of Rascal Clothes.
“We have witnessed excessive development in the previous few years and our objective is to deliver to the market a brand new contemporary progressive catalogue that may unfold throughout many alternative genres of clothes while staying trendy, top quality and accessible.
“Our most important market is a junior market, nonetheless, our clothes isn’t simply restricted to juniors with distinctive ranges for adults and each sexes which we’re eager to increase. I’m actually enthusiastic about our new route for 2023 and I’m so grateful to all of our prospects who’ve continued to help us and comply with our journey.”
