Gander Mountain
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | Wilmot, Wisconsin, USA (1960) |
| Founder(s) | Robert Sturgis |
| Headquarters | Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| Number of locations | 118 (Jan '09) |
| Key people | David Pratt (Interim CEO, Chairman) Robert Vold (CFO, Treasurer) |
| Products | Apparel, Equipment, & Accessories for: Hunting·Fishing·Camping·Outdoor Recreation |
| Revenue |  $1.06 billion (2008) [1] |
| Net income | -$15.4 million (2008)[1] |
| Employees | 5,606 (2,325 full-time) Jan '09 [1] |
| Website | www.GanderMountain.com |
Gander Mountain, headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a retail network of stores for hunting, fishing, camping, marine, and other outdoor recreation products and services. There are currently 119 Gander Mountain stores in 23 states.
Gander Mountain offers a wide array of sportswear for men, women, and children, camouflage and field wear, kayaks and canoes.
Gander Mountain began as a catalog-based retailer in Wilmot, Wisconsin. Wilmot is located near Gander Mountain, the highest point in Lake County, Illinois a short distance across the state line.
Gander Mountain sold its mail order business to Cabela's in 1999 with a no-compete clause. In 2007 it won a lawsuit brought by Cabela's to resume online sales. On December 6, 2007, the company announced it purchased boating and watersports catalog company Overton's for $70 million from a private-equity firm. The purchase of Overton's, based in Greenville, North Carolina, helped Gander Mountain's transition back into direct marketing.
Gander Mountain was formerly traded on NASDAQ but was turned into a private company under the majority ownership of David Pratt and the Erickson family[2], which own Holiday gas stations.
The Gander Mountain slogans are "We Live Outdoors" and simply "Hunt. Fish. Camp."
[edit] Stores & Locations
As of March 2010 the company had 116 stores operating in 23 states 6,600,000 square feet (610,000 m2) of retail space in the continental United States.[1] Gander Mountain's "large-format" stores range in size from 50,000-120,000 square feet and offer customers a unique experience. Physically, and visually, the stores are met with wider shopping aisles, high-joist ceilings, brick and stone accents, log-wrapped columns, and other wilderness related decorations.
| State | # of Stores | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 2 | Northern |
| Illinois | 4 | Northern |
| Indiana | 6 | Northern |
| Iowa | 2 | Northern |
| Maryland | 1 | Northern |
| Michigan | 14 | Northern |
| Minnesota | 13 | Northern |
| New York | 9 | Northern |
| North Dakota | 1 | Northern |
| Ohio | 9 | Northern |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | Northern |
| Wisconsin | 14 | Northern |
| Alabama | 1 | Southern |
| Arkansas | 1 | Southern |
| Florida | 5 | Southern |
| Kansas | 1 | Southern |
| Kentucky | 2 | Southern |
| Mississippi | 1 | Southern |
| North Carolina | 3 | Southern |
| Tennessee | 2 | Southern |
| Texas | 11 | Southern |
| Virginia | 4 | Southern |
| West Virginia | 1 | Southern |
| Totals: 23 States |
118 | Northern=86 Southern=32 |
Gander Mountain online store officially opened in August 2008.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "Gander Mountain SEC Form 10-K" (pdf). http://ccbn.10kwizard.com/xml/download.php?repo=tenk&ipage=6357808&format=PDF. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ^ "#204 Holiday Cos". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/21/biz_06privates_Holiday-Cos_UL9J.html.
