National Sporting Goods Association
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| Founded | 1929 |
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| Type | Trade Association |
| Focus | Education, Research & Advocacy |
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Area served
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 Canada
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Key people
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Matt Carlson, President & CEO |
| Slogan | Serving the Sporting Goods Industry Since 1929 |
The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) is a non-profit trade association that provides information to and advocates for the sporting goods industry. NSGA members include retailers, institutional team dealers, wholesalers, manufacturers and industry associates.
The National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA) has worked on behalf of retailers and dealers since the association’s founders fought an unjust tax on sporting goods in 1927. South Carolina’s General Assembly had approved a 10 percent tax on retail sales of sporting goods in ’27, and this so enraged the state’s sporting goods dealers that they formed the Sporting Goods Dealer’s Association of South Carolina to urge repeal of the tax. One year later, they accomplished their goal.
Soon after, other regional sporting goods associations began to form. Ultimately, at a meeting in January 1929, in New York City, East Coast sporting goods distributors banded together to form the Athletic Goods Wholesalers Association. Two months later in St. Louis, Mo., Midwestern and Southern sporting goods dealers formed the Sporting Goods Distributors Association.
It wasn’t long before the two regional organizations met in Cleveland, Ohio; the result of this meeting was the merging of the two associations. On May 26, 1929, the Sporting Goods Distributors Association was born. In 1930, the name was changed to the National Sporting Goods Distributors Association. Finally, in 1936, the organization adopted the name National Sporting Goods Association.
NSGA membership consists of retailers, institutional team dealers and also includes wholesalers, manufacturer, sales agents and industry associates in the sporting goods industry. NSGA represents retailers operating more than 22,000 retail and Internet outlets that sell sports, fitness and recreational equipment, footwear and sportswear.
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