Gearhead Outfitters

After a pandemic-driven boom, Arkansas outdoor retailers face slow sales in kayaks, canoes, and big-ticket gear, due to inflation and shifting consumer habits. read more >

The deal for two Summit Canyon Mountaineering stores grows Gearhead's footprint to more than 20 locations in seven states. read more >

“We develop talent by hiring cool people to sell cool products,” owner Ted Herget said. read more >

Herget started his business in a friend’s living room in 1997 and now owns 20 stores. read more >

Ted Herget is a study in contradictions. He constantly runs marathons and rides thousands of miles on a bicycle every year. Yet he likes to relax, and 10 days ago […] read more >

Manufacturers, retailers and tourists discover Bentonville, the self-proclaimed mountain biking capital of the world. read more >

The Uptown retail project attracts tenants displaced by March 2020 tornado. read more >

Jonesboro retailers Gamble Home Furnishings and Gearhead Outfitters are the new owners of what one broker calls the "single most important retail building in the history of our city," the 82,000-SF Sears building at Highland Drive and Caraway Road. read more >

Since Arkansas Business last visited with Ted Herget about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on his Gearhead Outfitters, the company has added tornado and civil unrest to the list of challenges it has faced. read more >

While Arkansas’ phased, reopening of businesses is underway, tenants of the storm-ravaged Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro are trying to figure out where their businesses are going to be. read more >

The voices of small-business owners in Arkansas betray their anxiety, even anguish approaching grief, as they fight for their future — and a future for their employees — in a world upended by a deadly pandemic. read more >

Gearhead Outfitters of Jonesboro acquires Rock/Creek Outfitters of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Uncle Dan's Outdoor Store, expanding its brick-and-mortar retail holdings across the country. read more >

These days, Gearhead founder Ted Herget can be seen driving, biking — or sometimes riding a motorized longboard — around Jonesboro, keeping tabs on the residential complexes he has built or is developing. read more >

Ted Herget is the founder and president of Gearhead Outfitters in Jonesboro, the 2015 Arkansas Business of the Year winner in Category II. read more >

Cameron Smith of Cameron Smith Associates of Rogers and Karen Fetzer of the Rotary Club of Little Rock won executive of the year awards at Thursday's 27th annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >

Gearhead Outfitters, a family-owned and operated outdoor lifestyle retailer with stores in Jonesboro and Little Rock, has recently expanded to the south, opening its first location out of Arkansas at the Mall St. Vincent in Shreveport. read more >