Cabela's Inc. Announces Revised Store Expansion Sites
Cabela’s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB), the World’s Foremost Outfitter® of hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear, today announced its revised store expansion sites.
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SIDNEY, Neb. — Cabela’s Incorporated (NYSE: CAB), the World’s Foremost Outfitter® of hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear, today announced its revised store expansion sites. The Company plans to open stores in Scarborough, Maine, and Rapid City, South Dakota, in 2008. Stores scheduled to open in 2009 are Billings, Montana, and East Rutherford, New Jersey.
“Cabela’s is confirming today that we will be proceeding with store openings in Scarborough and Rapid City this year,†said Dennis Highby, Cabela’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Additionally, we look forward to opening a store in Billings and a store in the Meadowlands Xanadu complex in East Rutherford in 2009.â€
About Cabela’s Incorporated
Cabela’s Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is the world’s largest direct marketer, and a leading specialty retailer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the Company’s founding in 1961, Cabela’s® has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World’s Foremost Outfitter®. Through Cabela’s well-established direct business and its growing number of retail stores, it offers a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer service. Cabela’s also issues the Cabela’s CLUB® Visa credit card, which serves as its primary customer loyalty rewards program.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not historical or current fact are “forward-looking statements” that are based on the Company’s beliefs, assumptions and expectations of future events, taking into account the information currently available to the Company. Such forward-looking statements include the Company’s statements regarding expected retail store openings for 2008 and 2009. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or financial condition to differ materially from the expectations of future results, performance or financial condition that the Company expresses or implies in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: adverse economic conditions causing a decline in discretionary consumer spending; increasing competition in the outdoor segment of the sporting goods industry; the ability to negotiate favorable purchase, lease and/or economic development arrangements for new retail store locations; expansion into new markets; market saturation due to new retail store openings; the rate of growth of general and administrative expenses associated with building a strengthened corporate infrastructure to support the Company’s growth initiatives; the cost of the Company’s products; supply and delivery shortages or interruptions caused by system changes or other factors; adverse weather conditions; unseasonal weather conditions which impact the demand for the Company’s products; fluctuations in operating results; the cost of fuel increasing; delays in road construction and/or traffic planning around the Company’s new retail stores; road construction around the Company’s existing retail stores; labor shortages or increased labor costs; changes in consumer preferences and demographic trends; increased government regulation; inadequate protection of the Company’s intellectual property; decreased interchange fees received by the Company’s financial services business as a result of credit card industry litigation; other factors that the Company may not have currently identified or quantified; and other risks, relevant factors and uncertainties identified in the Company’s filings with the SEC (including the information set forth in the “Risk Factors†section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2006, and Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007), which filings are available at the Company’s website at www.cabelas.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Given the risks and uncertainties surrounding forward-looking statements, you should not place undue reliance on these statements. The Company’s forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Other than as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.