Dick’s Sporting Goods

Company

Dick’s Sporting Goods operates more than 725 full-line sporting goods superstores located across the U.S. offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear in a specialty store environment. Dick’s also operates more than 80 Golf Galaxy stores.

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Sector

Consumer

Position

Realized

Transaction

Northwood participated in a later-stage equity round in 1996 and sold a portion of its position back to the company in 2001. Dick’s completed a $100 million initial public offering in 2002, and Northwood sold the remainder of its position through open market sales in 2003. (NYSE: DKS)  dickssportinggoods.com