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The museum helps bring visitors to Bass Pro's store there, with which it shares a location. [9] [10] In September 2017, Bass Pro acquired Cabela's, another retailer of outdoor merchandise, for $4 billion. [11] Morris and his family were presented with the Audubon Medal in February 2019, in recognition of their conservation efforts. [12]
In 2021, Bass Pro Shops and Helping a Hero held the Helping a Hero telethon to raise money for Helping a Hero and to raise awareness for the 100 Homes Challenge issued by Johnny Morris. [74] Under the challenge, Bass Pro Shops paid for 25% of the next 100 homes built by Helping a Hero. [75] The company also paid 100% of the cost of 10 homes. [76]
Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid contains 600,000 gallons of water features and the largest collection of waterfowl and hunting-related equipment in the world. [23] Over 3 million people visited Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid in 2015. [24] In 2015, Bass Pro Shops considered adding a zip-line and a second hotel to the Pyramid. [25]
The Pyramid now has been converted into a Bass Pro Shops megastore opened in May 2015, a hint that gentrification may be returning to the struggling neighborhood. [2] In 2016, conceptual plans for revitalizing the Pinch District were announced. [3] The design calls for a mixed-used district that would complement a $1 billion expansion of St. Jude.
This category lists manufacturers of camping and backpacking equipment. Many such companies also manufacture equipment for military, law enforcement, and other outdoor use, as well as making clothing, and a number of them also retail their and other products.
The founder of Bass Pro Shops, Johnny Morris, donated one million ASTM Level 1 Procedure Face Masks throughout the United States. [5] In a charitable action towards his workers the CEO of Delta Airlines Ed Bastian announced that he would forgo his own salary for six months in an effort to protect the general workers. [6]
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Academy Sports + Outdoors came into existence in 1938, [5] when Arthur Gochman and his business partner purchased Southern Sales, a San Antonio-based Army-Navy surplus chain comprising six stores that were by that year no longer making any profit. At the time, Gochman was a practicing attorney in San Antonio.