Scheels All Sports
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Sporting goods retailing chain |
| Founded | 1902 in Sabin, Minnesota, United States |
| Headquarters | Fargo, North Dakota, United States |
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Number of locations
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26 |
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Key people
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Steve M. Scheel, chief executive officer |
| Products | Apparel, sports equipment, shoes, exercise equipment |
| Website | scheels |
Scheels All Sports (/ˈʃiːlz/) is an American privately held, employee-owned and -operated sporting goods and entertainment chain store headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. Scheels operates twenty-six store locations in twelve U.S. states. Its slogan is Gear. Passion. Sports.
Scheels began as a hardware and general merchandise store in Sabin, Minnesota, in 1902. Frederick A. Scheel, a German immigrant, used the $300 he earned from his first harvest of potatoes as the down payment on the first Scheels, which was a hardware store.
Scheels started adding a small selection of sporting goods to its stores in 1954. Over the years, Scheels opened in surrounding communities, including Fargo, North Dakota, where the corporate office and the second-largest all-sports store in the world are now located. Scheels' first all-sports superstore opened in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1989. This store relocated to Columbia Mall in 2014.
CEO Steve M. Scheel, great-great-grandson of Frederick A. Scheel, oversees the company of over 6,000 associates. His father, Steve D. Scheel, is the Chairman of the Board.
Scheels owns and operates twenty-six stores in ten U.S. states. Scheels can be found in Springfield, Illinois. In Iowa, stores are located in Cedar Falls, Coralville, Sioux City, West Des Moines, and Waterloo. In Minnesota, stores are located in Eden Prairie, Mankato, Moorhead, St. Cloud, Rochester. In South Dakota, Sioux Falls. Montana has two locations, Billings and Great Falls. Nebraska, has two as well, in Lincoln and Omaha. At 295,000 square feet (27,400 m2), the store in Sparks, Nevada, is both the largest Scheels store and largest all-sports store in the world.
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