IPO Profile

Gander Mountain Company
4567 American Boulevard West, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55437
Tel: 952-830-8700
Web: www.gandermountain.com
Ticker: GMTN
Stock Exchange: Nasdaq
Shares Issued: 5,725,000.00
Price Offered: $16.00
Amount Raised: $91,600,000.00

Underwriters:
Banc of America Securities
William Blair
Piper Jaffray



Company Description:
We are a leading specialty retailer offering a broad assortment of competitively priced merchandise that caters to the needs of outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts, with a particular focus on hunting, fishing and camping. Our brand name has a 43 year heritage of strong appeal and relevance to consumers who participate in outdoor sports and recreation activities. Our core strategy and focus is to provide our target customer with a unique retail experience founded upon our "We Live Outdoors" culture and theme. We believe that our stores offer the broadest and deepest assortment of high quality, competitively priced national, regional and owned brand outdoor equipment, accessories, apparel and footwear in our markets. We seek to combine this dominant product offering with a unique store environment and superior customer service based on our store associates' extensive product knowledge and outdoor-related experience. We have expanded our store base from 26 stores in 1997 to our current base of 65 Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle stores in nine states � Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.