Academy Sports + Outdoors
Website: http://www.academy.com
Industry: Retail

Overview

Academy Sports and Outdoors (sometimes Academy Sports + Outdoors) is a sports goods discount store chain. For 70 years it was a privately held company owned by the Gochman family, until its May 2011 sale of majority ownership to the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts LP. Academy is one of the largest sporting goods stores in the US, operating 130 stores (as of Apr. 2011) across the southeastern United States.
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