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Johnson Outdoors is a leader in innovative outdoor recreational equipment for fishing, diving, camping and watercraft recreation enthusiasts. Founded in 1970 by Samuel C. Johnson, the Company evolved from a single brand into a $425 million global enterprise with 1,200 employees across 20 facilities worldwide. Public offerings of Johnson Outdoors (JOUT: Nasdaq) occurred in 1987 and 1988, with the Johnson family maintaining a controlling ownership position. Johnson Outdoors designs, manufactures and markets many of the world`s best known outdoor recreation brands across four business units: Fishing, Diving, Watercraft Recreation, Camping and Hiking. Our legacy of success is built on continuous, award-winning innovation which drives market-leading positions across 16 product categories. For over ten consecutive years, new products have represented a third or more of total Company revenue. Our mission is "to exceed the ever-growing expectations of outdoor enthusiasts, and the channel customers that serve them, with the most innovative, most valued and most sought-after brands and equipment." Investments will focus on sustaining leadership in fishing electronics, maintaining positive momentum in core dive equipment segments, driving growth in specialty camping and paddling channels and maximizing opportunities to improve the long-term profitability profile of every business. At Johnson Outdoors, we believe creating value goes beyond creating great products into creating the ultimate outdoor experience for outdoor enthusiasts. Our portfolio of market-winning brands is known for delivering on that promise. • Minn Kota® motors and accessories; Humminbird® fishfinders, maps and charts; Cannon® downriggers • SCUBAPRO® dive equipment and computers • Eureka!® tents and camping gear; Jetboil® personal cooking systems • Old Town® canoes, kayaks and personal flotation devices; Ocean Kayak™; Carlisle® paddles
Penguin Random House is the world`s largest trade book publisher. Worldwide, the company is comprised of the adult and children`s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and Penguin`s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial`s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world`s most widely read authors. Our mission at Penguin Random House is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere. We are committed to championing freedom of expression, and recognize the cultural responsibility we have to advance the reading experience for our society now and for future generations. Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 75% and 25%, respectively.
DICK`S Sporting Goods was founded in 1948 when an 18 year-old Dick Stack was working at an Army surplus store in Binghamton, New York. An avid fisherman, Dick was approached by the store owner to come up with a list of products needed to get into the fishing tackle business. After Dick presented his suggestions, the owner told him he was a dumb kid and had no idea what he was doing. Dick was upset and promptly quit. He went to his grandmother`s house where he spent a lot of time as a kid and told her what had happened. Dick`s grandmother asked how much it would cost to build the store himself. Dick said it would cost $300. His grandmother then went to the cookie jar where she kept her life savings and gave him $300 and told him “do it yourself.” Dick used that money and his relentless work-ethic to open a bait-and-tackle shop in Binghamton. By 1958, he expanded his product line to include much of what you`ll find at DICK`S Sporting Goods today. Ed Stack, Dick`s son, is the current CEO and Chairman of DICK`S Sporting Goods. He and his siblings bought the store from their father and are responsible for taking two stores and growing the chain to over 500 stores. Dick`s family continues to offer the finest quality products at competitive prices, backed by the best service anywhere. Like you, we have a real passion for sports. Dick`s Sporting Goods, Inc. is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. The Company owns and operates Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer and eCommerce websites and catalog operations for both Dick`s Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy.
Books-A-Million, Inc. is one of the nation's leading book retailers and sells on the Internet at www.booksamillion.com. The Company presently operates 256 stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The Company operates large superstores under the names Books-A-Million (BAM!), Books & Co. and 2nd & Charles and traditional bookstores operating under the names Bookland and Books-A-Million. Also included in the Company's retail operations is the operation of Yogurt Mountain Holding, LLC, a retailer and franchisor of self-serve frozen yogurt stores with 44 locations. The Company also develops and manages commercial real estate investments through its subsidiary, Preferred Growth Properties. The common stock of Books-A-Million, Inc. is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol BAMM.
The men and women that choose our path and follow our trails are Vikings. They are not afraid of the cold or the wilderness. These modern day Vikings belong in the backcountry and thrive in the wild, be it on a snowboard, a snowmobile or a pair of skis. We keep them warm, dry and safe because it is what we do.