I respectfully disagree: Bass Pro had no obligations to stay in Sidney, Financially that would make no sense , the synergies created by merging the 2 companies is what drove the purchase in the first place. Jim Cabela is solely to blame for entering into the mess to begin with, you don't go public in the manner he did and not expect what happened
Exactly, when you go public you sell your soul to the devil. You can't go that route and think your going be able to retain what you had when it was a family business. It was a family decision to be based in Sidney. No publically traded entity with an existing headquarters was going to keep another one in Sidney.