Academy Sports + Outdoors
Academy's headquarters near Katy, Texas. | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1938 in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Unincorporated Harris County (near Katy, Texas, U.S.) |
Number of locations | 275 (2023) |
Areas served | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia |
Key people | Max & Arthur Gochman, founders |
| Products | Sports equipment |
| Revenue | US$6.4 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 22,000 (2023) |
| Website | academy |
Academy Sports + Outdoors is an American sporting-goods store chain with corporate offices in the Katy Distribution Center in unincorporated western Harris County, Texas, United States, near Katy and west of Houston. For 74 years, it was a privately held company owned by the Gochman family, until its May 2011 acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In October 2020, it was listed on NASDAQ.