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12
Intellectual Property
Cabela’s®, Cabela’s CLUB®, Cabelas.com®, World’s Foremost Outfitter®, World’s Foremost Bank®, and
Bargain Cave® are among our registered service marks or trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. We have numerous pending applications for trademarks. In addition, we own several other registered and
unregistered trademarks and service marks involving advertising slogans and other names and phrases used in our
business. We own certain patents associated with various products. We also own trade secrets, domain names, and
copyrights, which have been registered for each of our catalogs.
We believe that our trademarks are valid and valuable and intend to maintain our trademarks and any related
registrations. We do not know of any material pending claims of infringement or other challenges to our right to
use our marks in the United States or elsewhere. We have no franchises or other concessions which are material to
our operations.
Available Information
Our website address is www.cabelas.com. We make available on our website our annual reports on Form
10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports,
proxy statements and annual reports to shareholders, and, from time to time, other documents, free of charge, as
soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with or furnish it to the SEC. Our SEC
reports can be accessed through the investor relations section of our website. The information on our website,
whether currently posted or in the future, is not part of this or any other report we file with or furnish to the SEC.
Additionally, the public may read and copy any of the materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference
Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the
Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains
reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers, such as Cabela’s, that file
electronically with the SEC. The address of the SEC’s website is www.sec.gov.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Risk Factors
Risks Related to Our Merchandising Business
A decline in discretionary consumer spending could reduce our revenue.
Our revenue depends on discretionary consumer spending, which may decrease due to a variety of factors
beyond our control, including:
• unfavorable general business conditions;
• increases in interest rates;
• increases in inflation;
• wars, fears of war, and terrorist attacks and organizing activities;
• increases in consumer debt levels and decreases in the availability of consumer credit;
• adverse or unseasonal weather conditions or events;
• increases in gasoline prices reducing the willingness to travel to our retail stores;
• adverse changes in applicable laws and regulations;
• adverse legislation relating to sales of firearms and ammunition;
• increases in taxation;
• adverse fluctuations of foreign currencies;
• adverse unemployment trends;
• adverse conditions in the mortgage and housing markets; and
• other factors that adversely influence consumer confidence and spending.