Dick's Sporting Goods
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| Type | Public (NYSE: DKS) |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Headquarters |  Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania |
| Key people | Ed Stack, CEO Tim Kullman, CFO Joe Schmidt, COO |
| Industry | retail |
| Products | Apparel, sports equipment, shoes |
| Revenue | ▲$ 3.88 billion USD |
| Employees | 20,000 |
| Website | www.DicksSportingGoods.com |
Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is a large US sporting goods retailer. Headquartered in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania it has 348 stores, primarily in the eastern half of the US, but in a total of thirty-four states[1]
Founded in 1948 by Dick Stack, (who was just 18 at the time), the company has expanded enourmously since the 1990s, in part through acqusitions, and is now one of the largest in the world.
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[edit] 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,[2] before moving its headquarters to Pittsburgh in 1994.[3]
Edward W. Stack has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dick's Sporting Goods since 1984 when Dick Stack retired from the company's then two-store chain. Stack has served the company full-time since 1977 in a variety of positions including: President, Store Manager, and Merchandise Manager.
[edit] Recent aquisitions
- 2004 - Forty-eight locations from Galyan's Trading Company, another sporting goods store.
- 2007 - Golf Galaxy, 65 golf superstores
- 2007 - Chick's Sporting Goods, a California based company.
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