beapro.com/Team Sporting Goods

What once started as a small family owned business twelve years ago, is now
expanding worldwide thanks to the Internet. Pro Athlete Sporting Goods, was
started by Wes and Judi Hedrick in 1987, and has been serving the Kansas
City area ever since. However, their son Scott Hedrick, CEO of beapro.com,
wanted to give the world the same great prices with a small business feel.
Hedrick's idea became a reality, all in a span of 18 months.

Beapro.com, a web-site designed for team sporting goods and apparel went
live November 26th 1999. The new web-site already has over 6,000 SKU's and
over 1000 different items to choose from. It is quickly becoming a popular
site for sporting goods. "We are very impressed with our first month, we are
averaging over 150 visits per day, and have received orders from all corners
of the United States from Hawaii to Washington to New York to Georgia," to
said Hedrick.

Beapro.com has very competitive prices on all the most popular items ranging
from high end baseball and softball bats, to ball gloves, uniforms and
apparel. The site is very accessible, in the sense that is was designed to
make viewing and ordering products as simple as possible. Pictures and
detailed information on each item helps the consumer know what exactly they
want to purchase.

The sporting goods business is in the top ten for e-commerce viability.
Hedrick summed it up by saying, "It is a multi-billion dollar business per
year, that we are definitely now a player in."