Cabela's

Infobox_Company | company_name = Cabela's | company_| company_type = Public (nyse|CAB)
foundation = Chappell, Nebraska, U.S. (1961)
founder = Dick Cabela
Jim Cabela
location_city = Sidney, Nebraska
locations = 26 stores (2007)
key_people = Dick Cabela (Co-founder, Chairman)
Jim Cabela (Co-founder, Vice Chairman)
Dennis Highby (CEO)
industry = Retail | products = Hunting, fishing, and outdoor merchandise
revenue = increase US$2.06 billion (2006)
operating_income = increase US$143.7 million (2006)
net_income = increase US$85.8 million (2006)
num_employees = 11,700 (2007)
company_slogan = "World's Foremost Outfitter" | homepage = [http://www.cabelas.com www.Cabelas.com] |

Cabela's (nyse|CAB) is a Sidney, Nebraska-based direct marketer and specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise. It also has "Trophy Properties LLC (a real estate market), "Outdoor Adventures (hunting and fishing trips), and the "Gun Library" (where people can buy and sell new and used firearms). Its direct marketing operation is one of the largest in the United States. The company 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 all 50 states and 120 countries. More than 120 million catalogs were mailed in its first year as a public company.

Retail stores

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 convert|180000|sqft|m2|-3, attracted more than four million customer visits in one year. Currently, the largest Cabela's retail facility is in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, with more than convert|250000|sqft|m2|-3 of floor space.

In 2007, Cabela's purchased family owned S.I.R. Warehouse Sports Store in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Winnipeg location serves as the Canadian headquarters. [citeweb|url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/08/16/cabelas-sir.html |title = U.S. firm buys longtime Winnipeg outfitter Canada |author = CBC |accessdate=2007-08-16] The company has also announced that its largest store will be constructed in Canada. This location will be a part of the convert|14000000|sqft|m2|sing=on [http://www.lacmirabel.com/ Lac Mirabel project] , which will include convert|2200000|sqft|m2 of retail space, and could open as early as 2008 [Cabela's Montreal store Press Release [http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/community/aboutus/retail-detail.jsp?detailedInformationURL=/cabelas/en/content/community/aboutus/retail/retail_stores/montreal/montreal_press.html] .]

The convert|75000|sqft|m2|-2|sing=on store just off Interstate 80 on the southern edge of Sidney illustrates some of the elements. The grounds include a 3 1/2 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 convert|27|ft|m|0|sing=on-tall replica of a mountain is framed in a convert|48|ft|m|0|sing=on 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.

Other attractions in their retail showrooms include a restaurant, a gun library, where one can see the epitome of the gunmaker's art, and a travel service, where customers can plan trips to anywhere in the world.

Television

Cabela's has produced several television series, they 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 [http://www.mobovivo.com MoboVivo] .

Games

Cabela's have 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 life-like hunting experiences and features.: "See ."

References

External links

* [http://www.cabelas.com/ Cabela's]
** [http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/community/aboutus/media/pages/cabtv_home.jsp?cm_ven=cabtv&cm_ite=tvhome Cabela TV Home]
** [http://www.mobovivo.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MoboVivoStore.woa/wa/programs/wildtv MoboVivo Cabela Programs]