Dick's Sporting Goods

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
Type	Public (NYSE: DKS)
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania key_people = Ed Stack, CEO Tim Kullman, CFO Bill Colombo, COO TBD, CAO
Industry	retail
Products	Apparel, sports equipment, shoes
Revenue	$ 2.52 billion USD
Slogan	Every Season Starts at Dick's
Website	www.DicksSportingGoods.com

Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the world. It is headquartered in Findlay Township,Pennsylvania and has locations in thirty-four states with 314 stores.

History

Dick's was founded by its namesake Dick Stack when he was just 18 years old in 1948. Stack worked at an Army/Navy store in Binghamton, New York, when his idea of expanding its product line to include fishing supplies was mocked by the owner. Relating his disappointment to his family that night, his grandmother decided to give him her life's savings and instructed him to "follow his dreams" with it. Opening up the first Dick's as a "bait & tackle" fishing supply store that same year and expanding into general sports merchandise in the late 1950s. In the early 1990s Dick's began chain operations, opening additional stores across Upstate New York,^[1] before moving its headquarters to Pittsburgh in 1994.^[2]

Old Gaylan's Trading Company storefront.

In 2004, the company acquired forty-eight locations from Galyan's Trading Company, another sporting goods store. In 2007, they acquired Golf Galaxy which operated 65 golf superstores.

Dick's Sporting Goods storefront. The facade, with its characteristic arched roof extending over the marquee, indicates that the store opened as a Galyan's.

Today

Through its close to 300 locations and a growing internet order business, Dick's provides authentic full-line sporting goods with a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear in a specialty-store environment. Dick's Sporting Goods' retail internet site is operated under a licensing agreement with GSI Commerce, which also operates the e-tailing site for Sports Authority. Its major competitors in the U.S. include many other sporting goods retailers.

Merger

December 27th 2007 Dick's Sporting Goods announced its buyout of Chick's Sporting Goods, a california based company.

The Lodge section of a modern Dick's Sporting Goods store.

Locations

New Jersey

• East Brunswick: Route 18 South
• Freehold
• Woodbridge: Woodbridge Center
• East Hanover

Former Locations

New Jersey

• Manalapan: Route 9 (moved to freehold) now-Marshalls

References

1. ^ Niedt, Bob. "Wilmorite to boost CNY malls", Syracuse Herald-Journal, 1993-04-29. Retrieved on 2006-12-25. 
2. ^ Lindeman, Teresa F. "Ed's way stacks up well for Dick's", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2004-11-21. Retrieved on 2006-12-25. 

External links

• Dick's Sporting Goods