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The history of SportShop Karrer AG goes back over 35 years. Since then, Fridolin Karrer has been successfully renting out alpine and cross-country skis and snowboards to children, young people and adults. Around 25,000 pairs of alpine skis, 5,000 snowboards and 1,000 pairs of cross-country skis including bindings, boots and poles await enthusiastic winter sports enthusiasts from the Basel region and even from nearby countries every year. A success story that began in the small municipality of Brislach (BL).
It all started in 1965, when Fridolin Karrer, then a teacher in the municipality of Brislach (BL), taught pupils who wanted to go to a traditional ski camp but had neither suitable ski equipment nor the financial means to do so. Fridolin Karrer therefore began to collect skis, boots and poles and organize the first ski days together with helpers from the region. Fridolin Karrer remembers a trip with a tractor and wagon.
A workshop was set up in the rooms of an old farmhouse and the collected ski equipment was refurbished. Fridolin Karrer still remembers well how the water first had to be thawed out on the first belt grinding machine in winter in order to be able to process the skis accordingly.
Fridolin Karrer's motivation was his love of winter sports, but also the idea of offering less well-off families and children in particular the opportunity to enjoy winter sports, which were on the rise at the time. As a teacher, he had insights into different social classes and this charitable commitment to this activity had always given him satisfaction and an incentive to continue.
The initial hobby with a social background had gradually developed into a business that required full commitment and concentration. As a result, Fridolin Karrer gave up his secure teaching job and became a sports retailer specializing in rental. The double burden simply became too much for him. A suitable location for the business was found in the commercial zone of Brislach and the demand for the services on offer increased from year to year.
The ski rental shop at the old location quickly threatened to burst at the seams. A lack of space, no parking spaces and the ever-growing catchment area of customers left Fridolin Karrer with the choice of either giving up or looking for a new, more suitable location. It was a pure stroke of luck that Fridolin Karrer was able to rent the entire site of an old brickworks in Laufen on a long-term basis and convert it according to his ideas.
Now SportShop Karrer AG has an infrastructure that meets all customer requirements. In the meantime, we serve customers from the greater Basel region, from the nearby French Jura and increasingly also from neighboring Germany.
We now employ 17 full-time staff and in the high season (winter) we have at least the same number of part-time employees. The full employment of staff, especially in the summer months, inevitably requires a constant expansion of the product range. We have now expanded our previous summer range (sale of textiles, all kinds of sports equipment, bicycles, etc.). We now have over 20 electric bikes available for hire. Further electric bikes are available from our partner in Gempen, the headquarters of Schwarzbubenland Tourismus. For club or business events, you can even hire minibuses with bike trailers (largest bus up to 15 seats). Of course, the electric bike can also be purchased after extensive testing.
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