Wrexham based sports retailer scores award success

A fast-growing sports equipment retailer in Wrexham is celebrating success after being crowned winner at a prestigious regional business award.

Net World Sports, which is based on the Wrexham Industrial Estate, fought off tough competition to bring home the title of ‘Business Exporter of the Year’.

The award was presented to Net World Sports at the 2018 FSB Wales Celebrating Small Business Awards.

Held in Cardiff, the ceremony recognised the innovation, enterprise and the accomplishments of the small business sector – with all award winners going to the UK final in London in May.

Net World Sports, the UK’s biggest-selling football goal manufacturer supplying more than 100,000 of its FORZA goals a year worldwide, reached the finals of the ‘Business Exporter of the Year’ category after impressing judges with annual sales growth of 70% over the qualifying period, with the firm’s average profits growing even quicker during the same timescale.

The company’s continuing international sales success was also rewarded with a place on the shortlist for the ‘Scale Up Business of the Year’ prize.

Overseas sales accounted for more than half of Net World Sports’ revenues in the eligible period, and in the last 12 months alone it has supplied top quality, affordable sports equipment to customers in more than 100 countries, all dispatched from its single 120,000 square foot HQ on Wrexham Industrial Estate.

Commenting on the award, Alex Lovén, managing director of Net World Sports, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded Business Exporter of the Year.

“We’ve really been pushing the boundaries in terms of what we offer our customers, whether that’s through stocking the very best products and always offering them at the best possible prices and in the quickest delivery time possible.

“Our aim is to ensure they receive the very best experience; we want to ensure that at every touchpoint with our customers we are exceeding expectation. We can’t wait to compete for the UK Award in May; fingers crossed we’ll be celebrating another win.”

Congratulating the winners of the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards, Janet Jones, FSB Wales Policy Chair, added: “Congratulations to the Net World Sports team – they are clearly a fantastic example of Welsh exporting talent and innovation.

“From starting a business in his bedroom to a global company, Alex and his team exemplify some of the best qualities that small businesses bring to our communities in Wales.”

The sports supplier will now go head-to-head will now go on to compete at the UK Awards, which take place in May, to see if they will be crowned as the UK’s Business Exporter of the Year.