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Big 5 Sporting Goods, Inc.
Type Consumers' cooperative
Founded 1955 (1955)
Headquarters El Segundo, CA, California,  United States
Key people Steven G. Miller
Industry sporting goods and outdoor gear
Employees 9,500[1]
Website big5sportinggoods.com
Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Glendale, California

Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: BGFV) is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 384 stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington.[2] Steven G. Miller is the Chairman, President, and CEO.

The Big 5 name is derived from its start as five California located Army-Navy surplus stores in the 1950s. For the 2004 fiscal year, Big 5 had $769.9 million in sales.

In 1988, Sportswest and Sportsland were acquired from Pay 'n Save.

A list of major competitors can be found on this list of sporting goods retailers of the United States.

References

  1. ^ "Company Profile for Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation (BGFV)". http://www.zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=BGFV&page=quotesearch. Retrieved 2008-10-21. 
  2. ^ Dow Jones Client Solutions (December 18, 2009). "Investor Relations Home". Big 5 Sporting Goods. Big 5 Sporting Goods, Inc.. http://www.big5sportinggoods.com/investor_relations.html. Retrieved December 28, 2009. "Big 5 is the leading sporting goods retailer in western United States, operating 384 stores in 11 states." 







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