Bass Pro Shops
Private | |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1971 |
Founder | John Morris |
Headquarters | Springfield, Missouri |
Number of locations | 92 |
Key people |
John Morris Founder and majority owner James (Jim) Hagale President & CEO |
Products | Hunting, fishing, and outdoor merchandise |
Revenue | 4.23 billion (2014) |
Number of employees | over 20,000(2014) |
Slogan | Your Adventure Starts Here |
Website | www.basspro.com |
Bass Pro Shops (Outdoor World) is a privately held retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise, known for stocking a wide selection of gear.
History
The majority owner, John Morris, began his career in sporting goods with a fishing section in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father, located in Springfield MO on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson, Missouri. That small fishing department sold homemade bait and worms, proving popular enough that Bass Pro Shops was incorporated in 1971. These homemade baits were so popular that many people wanted the opportunity to buy these when they had returned home. Thus began the Bass Pro Shops catalog, first mailed in 1974. Soon, it became the world's largest mail order sporting goods store.
In 1975, to meet the burgeoning demand for Bass Pro Shops exclusive products, American Rod and Gun was established. Acting as a separate wholesaling entity ARG serves more than 7,000 independently owned retail stores worldwide. In 1977, Bass Pro Shops introduced the first fish-ready complete boat motor and trailer package with the Bass Tracker. In 1984, construction began on the Outdoor World Catalog Showroom in Springfield, Missouri. Big Cedar Lodge opened in 1988 on Table Rock Lake.
In 1995, Bass Pro Shops Sportsman's Warehouse opened in Atlanta, Georgia, its first store outside the state of Missouri. In November 2001, taking advantage of Outdoor World's popularity as a tourist destination, the Wonders of Wildlife museum was opened next door to the store in Springfield.[1][2] The Wonders of Wildlife museum closed for renovation in 2007. As of 2014 it is still closed with an expected reopening Spring 2016.[3]
In 2015, Bass Pro Shops opened a store inside the Memphis Pyramid, a former sports arena and concert venue in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to the retail store itself, the building houses two restaurants, a bowling alley, a 100-room hotel, an observation deck, and the tallest free-standing elevator in America. At 535,000 sq ft, The Pyramid is Bass Pro's largest store.
House brands
Bass Pro Shops carries a number of house brands. Among these are:
- Ascend
- API
- Bass Pro Shops
- Bob Timberlake
- Johnny Morris Reels
- Natural Reflections
- Offshore Angler
- Occulus
- RangeMaxx
- Redhead
- Uncle Buck's
- White River
- Worldwide Sportsman
- XPSl
- XTS
Tracker Marine Group
For the article on the company, see Tracker Marine Group.
In 1978, Bass Pro Shops introduced the Bass Tracker boat, produced by the Tracker Marine Group. Its brands include Tracker Boats, Nitro, Sun Tracker, Tahoe, Fisher, ProCraft, Kenner, Mako Myacht and SeaCraft. These boats are sold in showrooms attached to every Bass Pro Shops store, in stand alone Tracker dealerships, and to independent marine dealers throughout the United States. All Tracker Marine Group boats are manufactured in multiple plants in southern Missouri. Over 400,000 people have purchased Tracker boats since 1978.[1]
Retail stores
Bass Pro Shops has 94 existing stores in the United States and Canada. The store sizes range from 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) up to 535,000 square feet (49,700 m2). The largest flagship stores are known as Outdoor World stores. The decor of the stores includes taxidermy mounts native to the local area. All stores have an indoor water feature that showcases fish species that are indigenous to the area. The fish in their tanks are game fish of great size. In some of these aquariums, professional anglers and store pro-staff hold demonstrations showing the use of an artificial bait. They catch the fish in these tanks to show how well the bait works. Bass Pro Shops is also known for its Outdoor Skills Workshops, teaching skills as varied as fly fishing, Dutch oven cooking, archery hunting with an archery range in the store, and GPS navigation. They hold many skills workshops with the top names in the outdoor world.[1]
The Rancho Cucamonga, California Outdoor World store is used for the exterior shots of the fictional "Outdoor Man" store in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, starring Tim Allen, that premiered in 2011. Camera crews have also visited the store several times to film interior shots.[4]
Outdoor World locations
Other locations
Bass Pro Shops have several other stores that do not fall under the Outdoor World flagship brand.
State | City | Store Name | Size | Year Opened |
---|---|---|---|---|
Florida | Destin | World Wide Sportsman | 50,000 sq ft[71] | 2003[72] |
Florida | Islamorada | World Wide Sportsman | 27,000 sq ft[58] | 1995 |
Florida | Palm Bay | Sportsman's Center[73] | 112,000 sq ft | 2013 |
Florida | Port St. Lucie | Sportsman's Center[74] | 100,000 sq ft | 2013 |
Florida | Sweetwater | World Wide Sportsman | 100,000 sq ft[75] | 2006[75] |
Florida | Tallahassee | Outpost | 70,000 sq ft[76] | 2013 |
Georgia | Macon | Sportsman's Warehouse | 120,000 sq ft | 2006 |
Missouri | Branson | White River Outpost | 80,000 sq ft[77] | 2006[78] |
Missouri | Columbia | Sportsman's Center | 82,000 sq ft[79] | 2005[80] |
Missouri | Saint Charles | Sportsman's Warehouse | 88,500 sq ft[81] | 2001 |
Missouri | Springfield | Outlet | 20,000 sq ft[82] | |
New York | Auburn | Sportsman's Center | 85,000 sq ft[83] | 2004 |
New York | Utica | Outpost | 65,000 sq ft[84] | 2013 |
North Carolina | Cary | Sportsman's Center | 105,000 sq ft[85] | 2013 |
Tennessee | Memphis | Sportsman's Warehouse | 84,000 sq ft[86] | 2002 |
Islamorada Fish Company Restaurant
Many locations include an Islamorada Fish Company, a chain of restaurants owned by Bass Pro Shops.
Uncle Buck's Fishbowl and Grill
The new San Jose, CA, Altoona, IA, East Peoria, IL, Harlingen, TX, Bristol, TN, Memphis, TN, and Tacoma, WA Outdoor World locations feature a first for Bass Pro Shops: a 12-lane bowling alley. The project is in cooperation with Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. In addition to bowling, the facility offers a full-service restaurant and bar as well as world-class billiards in the Black Widow billiard room. The 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) underwater themed facility is connected to the Bass Pro Shops, but features a separate entrance to accommodate late night diners and bowlers.
NRA National Sporting Arms Museum
After nearly a decade of work by the NRA and Bass Pro Shops, the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum opened in the flagship store in Springfield, Missouri on August 2, 2013. It showcases almost 1,000 sporting artifacts from the 1600s to today, including some historically significant firearms from the NRA Museum Collection. The museum will host firearms and artwork from the Remington Arms Company factory collection, a multimillion-dollar collection of U.S. military sidearms, engraved Colt revolvers of the American frontier, the guns of Annie Oakley and firearms of U.S. Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.[87]
Affiliation with NASCAR
Bass Pro Shops and its owner, John Morris, have had a longtime interest in NASCAR racing. The company has sponsored such racers as Dale Earnhardt, Kerry Earnhardt, and Martin Truex Jr. Truex, Jr. won the 2004 and 2005 Busch Series championships in the #8 Bass Pro Shops-sponsored Chevy, and drove the #1 Chevy for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in the Sprint Cup series from 2005 to 2009. He got his first win at Dover International Speedway and finished 11 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup in 2007. While Truex, Jr. renewed with Bass Pro Shops as his main sponsor for three years in 2007. In 2009, he announced he would be leaving Earnhardt Ganassi Racing for Michael Waltrip Racing in 2010. Jamie McMurray, former driver of the Roush Fenway Racing Crown Royal Ford Fusion, replaced Truex, Jr. for the 2010 season.
McMurray won the 2010 Daytona 500 in his first race driving in the Bass Pro Shops-sponsored Chevrolet. He followed that up by winning the 2010 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, making him the 3rd driver to win both races in the same season. He also won the 2010 Bank of America 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
In the Xfinity Series, Bass Pro Shops was the main sponsor for the #3 car driven by Austin Dillon, who brother Ty races in the Camping World Truck Series in the #3 truck. Also in the Truck Series, Bass Pro Shops sponsors the #32 truck driven by Ryan Truex.[88]
Beginning with the 2013 season, Bass Pro Shops signed a multi-year agreement to be the primary sponsor for the #14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet SS driven by 3-time Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart.
Bass Pro Shops reunites with Martin Trux Jr. in 2016 to be the primary sponsor of the #78 Furniture Row Sprint Cup car at the Daytona 500 and 8 more races during the 2016 season.
See also
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- Academy Sports + Outdoors
- Cabela's
- Dick's Sporting Goods
- Gander Mountain
- Legendary Whitetails
- REI
- Scheels All Sports
- Sportsman's Warehouse
- Calibers and CalibersUSA.com
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