Now a part of Federated Department Stores, the catalog outfit also has a huge consumer-finance division.

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Roos and 550 other merchants have used the company's catalog and training services to take their stores online.

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Crew now sells its line at over 200 retail stores, in addition to its catalog and Web site.

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The strategic changes the company unveiled include closing stores, completing the wind down of its legacy catalog business, realignment of its call center operations and reorganization of its custom decorating business.

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That inspired me to try other new products, like the first wireless telephones, the first telephone answering machines, the first air purifiers, and eventually this led to a full color catalog of new technology products, and later, 200 retail stores.

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Within two years younger brother James Cabela joined the catalog business, and the duo eventually moved their headquarters to Sidney, Nebr. and developed stores that have become like shopping amusement parks for sportsmen, known for elaborate taxidermy displays of animals from deer to lions.

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