{"id":2839,"date":"2012-11-09T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/11\/09\/sportsmans-guide-returns-to-american\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:00","slug":"sportsmans-guide-returns-to-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"Sportsman&#8217;s Guide Returns To American Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14889,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bizjournals.com\\\/twincities\\\/news\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/08\\\/northern-tool-buys-2-golf-retailers.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231222115321\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.bizjournals.com\\\/twincities\\\/news\\\/2012\\\/11\\\/08\\\/northern-tool-buys-2-golf-retailers.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 07:23:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 07:23:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14890,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bizjournals.com\\\/twincities\\\/search\\\/results?q=Chuck%20Albrecht&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIf you are like most of us, you either get the Sportsman&#8217;s Guide catalog or you used to get it. It is full of stuff from military surplus to ammo to some really weird trinkets. I know I&#8217;ve ordered everything from shoes to surplus to ammo from them and their prices tend to be pretty decent.<\/p>\n<p>What most people don&#8217;t know is that they have been owned by the French catalog company Redcats. No longer.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/news\/2012\/11\/08\/northern-tool-buys-2-golf-retailers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story published yesterday in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal<\/a>, the South St. Paul based Sportsman&#8217;s Guide is being sold by Redcats to Northern Tool + Equipment Co. along with the Golf Warehouse for $215 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><br \/>\nPending regulatory approvals, the acquisitions will give Northern Tool approximately $1.5 billion in annual sales.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Tool said both companies will be integrated into its<br \/>\nexisting operations to take advantage of economies of scale, but they<br \/>\nwill continue to operate as stand-alone brands to &#8220;take advantage of<br \/>\ntheir considerable brand equity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northern Tool does not plan to cut any jobs at those businesses, and it may add positions as the operations merge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very bullish about this milestone acquisition \u2014 it builds on<br \/>\nour operational strength and synergies,&#8221;Northern Tool President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/search\/results?q=Chuck%20Albrecht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Albrecht<\/a> said in a statement. &#8220;Furthermore, we were drawn to both companies being family-run institutions with strong management.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see Sportsman&#8217;s Guide be American-owned again. I just hope they still will have all the interesting European military surplus. I mean where else can you find both East German splinter camo coats and Czech-made glass urinals for field hospital use (among other things). <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like most of us, you either get the Sportsman&#8217;s Guide catalog or you used to get&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3537],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sportsmans-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8525,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/8525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}