1991, Sportsgirl opens the beautiful and expensive ($180 million) Sportsgirl Centre in Collins Street. In Melbourne 1994, a change in the economic climate forces the company to sell the Sportsgirl Centre.

David Bardas leaves the company and it is sold to an alliance of South African company Truworths and Australian Frank Whitford, managing director of Sportsgirl.

Stores are opened in New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. Expansion continues despite difficult retailing conditions. Labels Sportscraft, Sportsgirl and David Lawrence are split into separate stores, and new store fit-outs are implemented across Australia.

Substantial investment is made in developing the profiles of the individual brands. Sportsgirl lures supermodel Claudia Schiffer to appear in the Sportsgirl parade at the Melbourne Fashion Festival.

In early 1999 Whitford’s offer to buy out Truworths fails and in late 1999 the Sportsgirl Sportscraft Group is sold in pieces.