Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Academy Sports + Outdoors

Type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	San Antonio, US (1938)
Headquarters	Harris County, Texas, US
Key people	Max Gochman Founder David Gochman, Chairman, CEO Rodney Faldyn, President
Products	Discount stores
Revenue	US $1.8 billion, (2007)
Net income	US $65.0 million, (2005)
Owner(s)	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Employees	Over 11,000
Website	www.academy.com

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a sports goods discount store chain. For 74 years it was a privately held company owned by the Gochman family, until its May 2011 sale of majority ownership to the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts LP.^[1] Academy operates 138 stores (as of Apr. 2011) across the southeastern United States. Academy Sports and Outdoors has its corporate offices and product distribution center in unincorporated western Harris County, Texas, United States, near Katy.^[2]

History

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a family-owned sporting goods and outdoor stores. It is currently owned by Chairman and CEO David Gochman, and led by President Rodney Faldyn. David’s grandfather, Max Gochman, started Academy Sports + Outdoors over 70 years ago when he opened Academy Tire Shop in 1938 in San Antonio, Texas ^[3] After a few years, Max began selling military surplus, and the store continued to evolve into what it is now — a sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer with an assortment of hunting, fishing and camping equipment and gear along with sports and leisure products, footwear, and apparel. Sales reached one billion dollars in 2004 and two billion dollars in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Business

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Academy stores have six departments:

• Team Sports (Including the Golf Shop and Fitness Flat)
• Footwear
• Camping (Including patio furniture and cooking supplies)
• Hunting and Fishing (including firearm sales, boating, and truck and trailer accessories)
• Apparel
• Front End (cash registers, including hunting and fishing license sales at select registers)

References

• Company Information
• Academy.com Find a Store
• Forbes.com article (2007)
• Answers.com article

External links

	Companies portal
	Houston portal

• Official site
• Kaplan, David. "Buyout deal brings new era for Academy." Houston Chronicle. June 1, 2011.
• Eaton, Collin. "KKR to buy big stake in Texas-based sporting goods chain Academy." The Dallas Morning News. May 31, 2011.