Article: Track 'n Trail getting ready to go public.

Less than a year after its acquisition of Overland Trading, Track 'n Trail Inc. is preparing to go public.

The El Dorado Hills, Calif.,-based retailer expects to raise between $27.3 million and $32.7 million in an offering which it expects will take place in late September or early October.

In fiscal 1996, the company earned $4.4 million on sales of $66.2 million, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Those results were up from earnings of $2.4 million on $50.7 million in sales. And for the six months ended June 28, sales were up 61 percent, to $37.5 million, though the company reported a $236,000 loss, which it said was ...

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