{"id":20877,"date":"2013-03-04T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:18:05","slug":"thanks-a-million-one-million-active-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/thanks-a-million-one-million-active-customers\/20877\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKS A MILLION! – One Million Active Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"ThanksaMillion\"

Larry and Brenda Potterfield, Owners of MidwayUSA<\/p><\/div>\n

MidwayUSA announces that is has reached a significant milestone of one million active Customers! In support of this achievement, MidwayUSA also announces a major donation of one million dollars to the NRA-ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2nd Amendment. Following is the official Customer letter from Larry Potterfield, Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA:<\/p>\n

Dear Valued Customer,<\/p>\n

One million is an attention-getting number, no matter what the circumstances.\u00a0 At MidwayUSA, Brenda and I \u2013 along with the MidwayUSA Employees — have celebrated a good many \u2018one million\u2019 milestones during the last 35+ years.<\/p>\n

In 1983, our seventh year in business, we reached the milestone of one million dollars in business during a single calendar year.\u00a0 2008 was the first year we filled one million orders for our Customers.\u00a0 In 2012 your NRA \u201cRound-Up\u201d contributions, through MidwayUSA, exceeded one million dollars during that single year.\u00a0 Please note that NRA \u201cRound-Up\u201d contributions come from you, our Customers, and each week since 1992 we have sent your contributions directly to the NRA\/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2nd Amendment.\u00a0 Our Customers should get all the credit for that, we just collect and remit your money.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, in March of 2013 came another milestone to celebrate \u2013 one million active Customers — Customers who have ordered from MidwayUSA during the last twelve months.\u00a0\u00a0 For a country kid from Missouri, that\u2019s an amazing milestone.<\/p>\n

I believe our vision to be the best-run, most-respected business in America, for the benefit of our Customers, our family values and our relentless pursuit of Customer Satisfaction are what brought us to this milestone of one million active Customers. Brenda and I, along with all the Employees at MidwayUSA, thank you very much for your support.<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, we gave quite a bit of thought as to how we could celebrate.\u00a0 Should we choose our one millionth active Customer and give he or she a special gift?\u00a0 Well, we could have done that, but all of our Customers are equally important, not just the one who put us over the top.\u00a0 Then someone came up with the idea that we should donate $1 to the NRA for each of our active Customers.\u00a0 Well, let\u2019s see, what is $1 times one million?<\/p>\n

And so it was!\u00a0 On Monday morning about 10 am, when we went over one million active Customers, MidwayUSA authorized our bank to send a wire transfer of one million dollars to the NRA\/ILA National Endowment for the Protection of the 2nd Amendment; because we can and because we should.<\/p>\n

Thanks a Million!
\nLarry Potterfield,
\nFounder and CEO of MidwayUSA<\/p>\n

About MidwayUSA<\/strong><\/em>
\nLarry and Brenda Potterfield turned their passion for shooting sports into a career in 1977 by opening a small retail firearms store that would eventually become MidwayUSA<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on MidwayUSA, visit their website, find them on Facebook<\/a> , or follow them on Twitter<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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