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Cabela’s Closes Offering of $215 Million of Senior Notes
SIDNEY, Neb., February 28, 2006 - Cabela's Incorporated (NYSE: CAB), the World’s Foremost Outfitter® of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, announced today that it has sold $215 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.99% senior notes due 2016 in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the offering for new retail store expansion, including capital expenditures, purchase of economic development bonds and general corporate purposes.
The offering was made only to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offering would be unlawful.
The senior notes will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state and may not be offered or sold in the United States or outside the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws.
About Cabela’s Incorporated
Cabela’s Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is the world’s largest direct marketer, and a leading specialty retailer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the Company’s founding in 1961, Cabela’s® has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World’s Foremost Outfitter®. Through Cabela’s well-established direct business and its growing number of destination retail stores, it offers a wide and distinctive selection of high-quality outdoor products at competitive prices while providing superior customer service. Cabela’s also issues the Cabela’s Club® VISA credit card, which serves as its primary customer loyalty rewards program.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not historical or current fact are "forward-looking statements" that are based on the Company’s beliefs, assumptions and expectations of future events, taking into account the information currently available to the Company. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the Company’s statement regarding its intended use of the proceeds from the offering. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or financial condition to differ materially from the expectations of future results, performance or financial condition that the Company expresses or implies in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the ability to negotiate favorable purchase, lease and/or economic development arrangements; expansion into new markets; market saturation due to new destination retail store openings; the rate of growth of general and administrative expenses associated with building a strengthened corporate infrastructure to support the Company’s growth initiatives; increasing competition in the outdoor segment of the sporting goods industry; the cost of the Company’s products; supply and delivery shortages or interruptions; adverse weather conditions; unseasonal weather conditions which impact the demand for the Company’s products; fluctuations in operating results; adverse economic conditions causing a decline in discretionary consumer spending; the cost of fuel increasing; delays in road construction and/or traffic planning around the Company’s new destination retail stores; road construction around the Company’s existing destination retail stores; labor shortages or increased labor costs; changes in consumer preferences and demographic trends; increased government regulation; inadequate protection of the Company’s intellectual property; decreased interchange fees received by the Company’s financial services business as a result of the current interchange litigation against VISA; other factors that the Company may not have currently identified or quantified; and other risks, relevant factors and uncertainties identified in the Company’s filings with the SEC (including the information set forth in the “Factors Affecting Future Results” section of the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2005), which filings are available at the Company’s website at www.cabelas.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Given the risks and uncertainties surrounding forward-looking statements, you should not place undue reliance on these statements. The Company’s forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Other than as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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