Category: Sporting Goods

Academy Sports + Outdoors

  About Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASO) is one of the largest sporting goods and outdoor retailers in the United States, headquartered at 1800 N. Mason Road in Katy, Texas — technically in unincorporated western Harris County — on a shared campus that also houses the Katy Distribution Center. Founded in 1938 in San Antonio, Texas, Academy has grown to 322 store locations across 21 states as of fiscal year 2025, with distribution centers in Jeffersonville, Georgia and Cookeville, Tennessee. The company reported $6.05 billion in FY2025 net sales — its first return to topline growth in two years — and CEO Steve Lawrence (since June 2023) has described 2025 as an “inflection point” for the business. FY2026

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Fanatics

About Fanatics, Inc. is the world’s largest digital sports platform, with its global corporate headquarters at 95 Morton Street, New York, NY 10014 (West Village neighborhood of Manhattan) — where Fanatics relocated its primary corporate presence in January 2022 — and its founding and largest operational campus at 8100 Nations Way, Jacksonville, Florida 32256, which houses its Fan Services, e-commerce fulfillment operations, and largest employee population. Fanatics was founded in Jacksonville, Florida in 2011 by Michael Rubin (who had also founded GSI Commerce in 1995) as an online retailer of licensed sportswear and merchandise for major professional and collegiate sports leagues and teams — growing into the dominant global sports licensed merchandise platform through exclusive or preferred league and team

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DICK’S Sporting Goods

About DICK’S Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) is the largest sporting goods retailer in the United States, headquartered at 345 Court Street, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108 — a purpose-built corporate campus in Findlay Township, Allegheny County, adjacent to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) in the western Pittsburgh suburbs. DICK’S is a Fortune 500 company operating a full omnichannel retail model across its portfolio of brands: DICK’S Sporting Goods (flagship), Golf Galaxy, Public Lands, Going Going Gone!, and — following a landmark acquisition — Foot Locker. The company was founded in 1948 by Richard “Dick” Stack as a single bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton, New York, after 18-year-old Dick convinced his grandmother to lend him $300 from her cookie jar. His son Edward Stack

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