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Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops was founded in 1972 by Johnny Morris, who began selling fishing tackle out of a corner of his father's Springfield, Missouri liquor store before growing the business into a massive outdoor recreation retail empire built around hunting, fishing, and camping equipment. The company became particularly known for its enormous flagship "megastore" locations, which function as much as tourist destinations as retail stores, often featuring massive indoor aquariums, taxidermy displays, and even indoor shooting ranges within a single store location. Bass Pro Shops acquired longtime rival Cabela's in 2017 for approximately $4 billion, combining two of the largest hunting and fishing-focused retail chains in the country under one corporate parent while continuing to operate Cabela's stores under their original branding. Bass Pro Shops's combination of its founder's origins selling tackle from a corner of a liquor store and its landmark acquisition of rival Cabela's has made it one of the most dominant outdoor and hunting-focused retail chains in the country.
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Academy Sports + Outdoors
Academy Sports + Outdoors traces its origins to 1938 in Houston, Texas, founded by Jewish immigrant Max Gochman as a small army-navy surplus store before his family grew it over the following decades into a full sporting goods and outdoor recreation retail chain. The company built a particularly strong presence across the American South and Southeast, historically concentrating its store footprint in that region rather than pursuing the more nationwide store distribution some larger competitors maintained. Academy Sports + Outdoors has remained substantially family-controlled through much of its history despite going public in 2020, and the company built a reputation for a broader, value-oriented product mix spanning sporting goods, outdoor gear, and casual apparel at generally lower price points than some specialty competitors. Academy Sports + Outdoors's combination of its origins as a small Depression-era army-navy surplus store and its sustained regional dominance across the American South has made it one of the most distinctively positioned sporting goods chains in the country.
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