{"id":274401,"date":"2026-06-22T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:24:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-former-modells-ceo-announces-launch-of-new-digital-storefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274401\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Former Modells Ceo Announces Launch Of New Digital Storefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Former Modell\u2019s Sporting Goods CEO, Mitchell Modell, announces the launch of a new digital storefront.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Modell made the announcement at the Kimberly Hotel in Manhattan, where he spoke about his family\u2019s story of starting the business in 1889 with his great-grandfather and a pushcart. He spoke about the brand\u2019s success as the go-to for sports equipment and merchandise for families in New York and their downfall when retail habits turned to online.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The current Modell\u2019s Sporting Goods and the associated website are no longer run by the Modell family.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The former CEO then spoke about the Knicks\u2019 consistent wins and how social media brought his company\u2019s name back into the spotlight, with many people asking, \u201cWhere is Mo\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This prompted Modell to launch <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/mitchellmodells.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mitchelmodells.com<\/a>, an internet-first company focusing on a select number of items.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe very technology that helped destroy us is now going to help rebuild us,\u201d Modell said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Modell says they are also aiming to open physical storefronts by the year 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Modell\u2019s Sporting Goods CEO, Mitchell Modell, announces the launch of a new digital storefront. Modell made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-274401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}