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NASGW Membership

What is NASGW?

The National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers, NASGW, is the leading organization in the shooting sports industry for product distribution, accounting for approximately 65% of sales. Our members are primarily wholesale businesses and manufacturers. NASGW is a member-driven association focused on connecting buyers (wholesalers) and sellers (manufacturers) through our annual Expo and access to industry-leading data through our SCOPE data platform. 

The NASGW Expo

By joining NASGW you have the ability to attend and/or participate in the annual NASGW Expo. If you’ve never been a participant in our annual Expo, it’s a bit different than other shows in the shooting sports industry. The NASGW Expo is designed to bring together manufacturers with distributors to discuss products, programs for sales, and pricing. The number of buyers at the Expo are much smaller than other shows, since the only buyers are distributors who then sell to the dealers and retailers. However, the buyers at the NASGW Expo typically purchase in much higher quantities to supply those dealers and retailers, making the NASGW Expo the most impactful week of the year in the shooting sports industry. 


If you are a wholesale business in the shooting sports industry or a manufacturer looking to expand your business through the industry's most extensive distribution network, look no further than NASGW. 

MEMBERSHIP

Gross Sales: $100,000,000 - Membership Fee: $5,000

Gross Sales: $100,000,000 – $250,000,000 - Membership Fee: $7,500

Gross Sales: $250,000,000 or Greater - Membership Fee: $10,000

  • regularly engaged as a sporting goods wholesaler for at least 3 years
  • carries on the trade or business of purchasing sporting good merchandise, takes title to and maintains an inventory of shooting sports-related merchandise, extends credit to the retailer, employs a professional wholesale sales team, and other wholesaler functions and, without substantially changing the form of the merchandise, resells it to separately owned retailers for resale to consumers or industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users.
    • Separately owned retailers are defined as a person, firm, or corporation other than one (a) owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the sporting goods wholesaler, its officers, directors, shareholders or affiliates, or (b) owning or controlling the sporting goods wholesaler directly or indirectly by itself or through its officers, directors, shareholders or affiliates.
  • An application must be sponsored by another regular member who has been a member in good standing of the Association for at least 5 years and who has reliable knowledge that the applicant meets all the membership requirements.
  • All membership applications shall be submitted with payment of not less than one full year’s dues and a $500.00 non-refundable application fee.
  • An application must be approved by the board of directors
  • Voting member of the association

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ASSOCIATE MEMBER

  • regularly and substantially engaged in the manufacture or importation, of sporting goods products generally sold by regular members of the Association.
  • Non-voting member of the association
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  • represents a member firm or corporation as a sales agent.
  • Non-voting member of the association
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  • regularly engaged in the reporting or publishing of industry news or products that are of interest to regular members of the Association.
  • Non-voting member of the association
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  • providing products and/or services utilized or sold by regular members of the Association so long as said applicant agrees to support and abide by the objectives and purposes of this Association.
  • Non-voting member of the association
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  • Based outside the United States, serving as an International Manufacturer or an International Manufacturer’s Representative engaged in either the distribution of sporting goods products manufactured by Associate Members, Manufacturer-Importers, the manufacture or export of sporting goods products generally sold by regular members of the Association or serve as a sales agent for a manufacturer not based in the U.S
  • Non-voting member of the association

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  • Based outside the United States, serving as an International Wholesaler/Distributor engaged in either the distribution of sporting goods products manufactured by Associate Members, Manufacturer-Importers, the manufacture or export of sporting goods products generally sold by regular members of the Association or serve as a sales agent for a manufacturer not based in the U.S
  • Non-voting member of the association

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