Post-effective Amendment to Registration Statement (pos Am)

Registration No. 333-128100

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

Form S-3

Registration Statement No. 333-128100

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

CABELA’S INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		20-0486586
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

One Cabela Drive

Sidney, Nebraska 69160

[phone]

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Ralph W. Castner

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Cabela’s Incorporated

One Cabela Drive

Sidney, Nebraska 69160

[phone]

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Not Applicable

(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)

 

 

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Cabela’s Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), is filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) this Post-Effective Amendment (the “ Post-Effective Amendment ”) to deregister all shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “ Class A Common Stock ”) originally registered pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-128100), filed with the SEC on September 2, 2005, pertaining to the registration of shares of Class A Common Stock (the “ Registration Statement ”), which have not been sold or otherwise issued as of the date of the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment.

On September 25, 2017, the Company completed its previously disclosed merger with Bass Pro Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Parent ”), that was contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 3, 2016, by and among the Company, Parent and Prairie Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Sub ”), which was amended by the Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 17, 2017 (as amended, the “ Merger Agreement ”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Sub merged with and into the Company (the “ Merger ”), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. As a result of the Merger, each outstanding share of Class A Common Stock was automatically converted into the right to receive the merger consideration described in the Merger Agreement. In connection with the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Sidney, State of Nebraska, on September 25, 2017.

 

Cabela’s Incorporated
By:		/s/ Ralph W. Castner
		Ralph W. Castner
		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933.