The business has over 50 stores across the United States and offers their products through their mail-order catalogs, which is also considered as one of the largest in the country. The company is not only engaged in marketing their retail products as they have also produced several television series and video games. They also have four important businesses that help generate their more than $2.7 billion annual revenue. These segments are the “Gun Library” (offers various kinds of guns that are new, used or collectible), the “Outdoor Adventures” (offers hunting and fishing trips), World’s Foremost Bank (issues the Cabela’s Club Visa credit cards) and the “Trophy Properties LLC” (a real estate market).
It was Dick and James Cabela who founded the company in 1961. The brothers together with Dick’s wife Mary, owns 25% of the company’s stocks. The business today is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.