About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: L.L.Bean, Orvis, Recreational Equipment Incorporated, Bass Pro Shops, Columbia Sportswear, Dick's Sporting Goods, Scheels All Sports, Sports Authority, Cabela's, Backcountry.com, Camping World, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Rock/Creek, MidwayUSA, Herman's World of Sporting Goods, Modell's, Gander Mountain, Sport Chalet, Mountain Gear, City Sports, Campmor, Sun & Ski Sports, Moosejaw, Eastern Mountain Sports, VolleyHut.com, Eastbay, TGSCOM, MC Sports, Timbuk2, Granite Gear, Hibbett Sports, Built NY Inc, Sportsman's Warehouse, Specialty Sports Venture, Modern Skate & Surf, ORSdirect.com, Play It Again Sports, Golf USA, Road Runner Sports, Dunham's Sports, Perani's Hockey World, Champs Sports. Excerpt: L.L.Bean is a privately held mail-order, online and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment. Its annual sales were USD 1.78 billion in 2006. The company L.L.Bean was founded in 1912 by its namesake, avid hunter and fisherman Leon Leonwood Bean in Greenwood, Maine. Bean had developed a waterproof boot (a combination of lightweight leather uppers and rubber bottoms) that he sold to hunters. He obtained a list of nonresident Maine hunting license holders, prepared a descriptive mail order circular, set up a shop in his brother's basement in Freeport, Maine, and started a nationwide mail order business. By 1912, he was selling the "Bean Boot," or Maine Hunting Shoe, through a four-page mail-order catalog, and the boot remains a staple of the company's outdoor image. Defects in the initial design led to 90% of the original production run being returned: Bean made good on his money-back guarantee, corrected the design, and continued selling them. Leon L. Bean died on February 5, 1967, in Pompano Beach, Florida. He is buried in Freeport's Webster...
