Cabela's

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For the video game series, see Cabela's Dangerous Hunts.
Cabela's
Type Public
Traded as NYSE: CAB
Industry Retail
Founded Chappell, Nebraska, U.S. (1961)
Founder(s) Dick Cabela
Jim Cabela
Headquarters Sidney, Nebraska
Number of locations 40 stores (2012)
Key people Dick Cabela (Co-founder, Chairman)
Jim Cabela (Co-founder, Vice airman)
Thomas Millner (CEO)
Michael Copeland (Chief operating officer)
Brian Linneman (Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing)
Ralph Castner (Chief Financial Officer)
Products Hunting, fishing, and outdoor merchandise
Revenue Increase US$2.7 billion (2010)
Operating income Increase US$186.8 million (2010)
Net income Increase US$112.1 million (2010)
Employees 14,800 (2012)
Website www.cabelas.com

Cabela's Incorporated is a direct marketer and specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise, based in Sidney, Nebraska. It also has "Trophy Properties LLC (a real estate market), "Outdoor Adventures" (hunting and fishing trips), the "Gun Library" (for buying and selling new and used firearms), and World's Foremost Bank (the issuer of Cabela's Club Visa credit cards). Its direct marketing operation is one of the largest in the United States. The company was founded by Richard N. Cabela in 1961 and went public in 2004, with that fiscal year's revenue reaching $1.56 billion, a 50% growth since 2001.

Cabela's mail-order catalogs are shipped to 50 states and 120 countries. More than 120 million catalogs were mailed in its first year as a public company.

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Retail stores[edit]

Cabelas Store in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Cabela's has a distinctive look to their retail operations, a look which turns them into tourist attractions as well as retail stores. The stores are more like cavernous showrooms, bringing the outdoors inside. They feature museum-quality displays of taxidermied wildlife, large aquariums, indoor mountains, and archery ranges. The success of the format is illustrated by the company's Kansas City, Kansas store at over 180,000 square feet (17,000 m2), which attracted more than four million customer visits in one year. Currently, the largest Cabela's retail facility is in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, with more than 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of floor space.

Taxidermy display featuring a black bear, grizzly bear, hornet's nest and several whitetail deer at a Cabela's store located in Wheeling, WV.

Plans for international expansion began to develop, and in 2007, Cabela's purchased family owned S.I.R. Warehouse Sports Store in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] In 2010, the Canadian Head Office and Distribution Center moved across the city, leaving the original location as only a retail store. The company had intended to be a part of the 1,400,000-square-foot (130,000 m2) Lac-Mirabel project near Montreal, which was to include 220,000 square feet (20,000 m2) of retail space, and was planned to open in 2008.[2] But instead, rival chain Bass Pro Shops became one of the mall anchors.[3] In 2011 Cabela's opened a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) store in Edmonton, Alberta and in 2012 opened a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) store in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Aquarium

The 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m2)[4] store just off Interstate 80 on the southern edge of Sidney, Nebraska illustrates some of the elements. The grounds include a 3½ acre pond and two bronze double-life-size bull elk on one side of the building. Inside, moss rock pillars hold trophy elks of huge proportions. A 27-foot (8 m)-tall replica of a mountain is framed in a 48-foot (15 m) mural of blue sky. The mountain is covered with 40 lifelike game trophies and features a waterfall that splits at the base into two ponds. Suspended in the air between the entryway and the mountain is a flock of taxidermic Canada geese.

Gun Library
Cabela's water tower, Dundee, MI

Other attractions in their retail showrooms include a restaurant, a gun library, where one can see examples of the gunmaker's art, and a travel service, where customers can plan trips to anywhere in the world. The Boise, Idaho location is home to a museum dedicated to Elmer Keith.[5] The Cabela's in Maine has an amusement park style shooting gallery, featuring both handguns and rifles.

List of Cabela's retail stores[edit]

There are thirty-nine Cabela's retail stores worldwide in the following locations:

Canada[edit]

  • Edmonton, Alberta
  • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Regina, Saskatchewan (Opening fall 2013)
  • Winnipeg, Manitoba (being relocated in 2013)[6]

US[edit]

  • Glendale, AZ
  • Rogers, AR [7]
  • Grand Junction, CO
  • Lone Tree, CO (2013)[8]
  • Thornton, CO (2013)[9]
  • East Hartford, CT
  • Christiana, DE (2014)[10]
  • Boise, ID
  • Post Falls, ID
  • Hoffman Estates, IL
  • Hammond, IN
  • Kansas City, Kansas
  • Wichita, KS
  • Louisville, KY (April 11, 2013)[11]
  • Gonzales, LA
  • Scarborough, ME
  • Dundee, MI
  • Grandville, MI [12]
  • East Grand Forks, MN
  • Owatonna, MN
  • Rogers, MN
  • Woodbury, MN (2014)[13]
  • Hazelwood, MO
  • Billings, MT
  • Kearney, NE
  • Omaha, NE
  • Sidney, NE
  • Reno, NV
  • Cheektowaga, NY (2014) [14]
  • Columbus, OH (2013)[15]
  • Springfield, OR
  • Hamburg, PA
  • Greenville, SC (2014)[16]
  • Mitchell, SD
  • Rapid City, SD
  • Allen, TX
  • Buda, TX
  • Fort Worth, TX
  • Lehi, UT
  • Lacey, WA
  • Tulalip, WA
  • Green Bay, WI (2013)[17]
  • Prairie du Chien, WI
  • Richfield, WI
  • Charleston, WV
  • Wheeling, WV

The newest Cabela's retail store (as of April 11, 2013) is the Louisville, KY, location. It opened on April 11 as the 40th retail location. It is one of the company's smaller "next generation" stores, focusing more on retail and less on the tourist destination style of the older, larger stores. Another 6 stores are currently planned to be opened in 2013 and 2014.

Cabela's Outposts[edit]

In early 2012, Cabela's unveiled a new retail initiative called "Cabela's Outpost Stores". According to the press release for the Union Gap, WA location, they "will introduce the unique Cabela's retail experience to customers in underserved markets across the United States and Canada".[18] The first outpost store is to open in Union Gap in Fall 2012.

The newly opened locations are:

  • Saginaw, MI (2013)[19]

Television[edit]

Cabela's has produced several television series, which are called Cabela's Outfitter Journal, and Cabela's Memories in the Field. They broadcast on WildTV and The Outdoor Channel and available for download at MoboVivo.

Games[edit]

Cabela's has produced several video games for many video game platforms, including Cabela's Big Game Hunts, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 1 & 2, Cabela's African Safari, Cabela's Outdoor Adventures and more. All these games feature lifelike hunting experiences and features.

See Category:Cabela's video games.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2007-08-16). "U.S. firm buys longtime Winnipeg outfitter". CBC News. Retrieved 2007-08-16. 
  2. ^ Cabela's Montreal store Press Release Cabelas.com
  3. ^ Lac Mirabel press release
  4. ^ Cabelas.com
  5. ^ Huntington, Roy (2008). "Elmer Keith museum is open! Cabela's in Boise, new home". American Handgunner 29 (3): 127. 
  6. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans to Relocate Winnipeg, Canada, Store". cabelas.com. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  7. ^ "Cabela's Inc. Announces Plans for Rogers, Ark., Store". cabelas.com. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  8. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Thornton and Lone Tree, Colo., Stores". cabelas.com. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  9. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Thornton and Lone Tree, Colo., Stores". cabelas.com. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  10. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Christiana, Del. Store". yahoo.com. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-08-22. 
  11. ^ "New Louisville sporting goods shop announces opening date". Louisville, KY: WDRB. February 19, 2013. Retrieved February 20, 2013. 
  12. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Grandville, Mich., Store". cabelas.com. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  13. ^ "New Cabela’s Store Coming To Woodbury In Fall 2014". cbs.com. 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2012-01-15. 
  14. ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/morning_roundup/2013/06/location-central-to-cabelas.html
  15. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Columbus, Ohio, Store". cabelas.com. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  16. ^ "Cabela's plans to open Greenville store, hire 235". FOX Carolina. 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-03-12. 
  17. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Green Bay, Wis., Store". cabelas.com. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  18. ^ "Cabela's® Unveils New Outpost Store Retail Initiative". cabelas.com. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 
  19. ^ "Cabela's® Announces Plans for Saginaw, Mich. Store". cabelas.com. 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 

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