Outdoor Industry Consoildation

“Here's an interesting chart showing how the outdoor gear industry has consolidated. Download the .pdf to get a closeup view of who owns what (did you know ArcTeryx and Suunto were sister companies?), and a list of the few remaining independent gear companies (although they're missing a few, such as GoLite and Camelbak).”

“Kleetn...its worse than you think...all of it is owned by "WALMART!!!!"

Maybe with the downturn we will see companies divesting themselves of subsidiaries.”

“Careful...you may upset Stovie!”

“Where is Kelty? I know they used to be owned by AMF, but that was a long time ago. I assume Tarptent and Warmlite are loners?”

“Wow the Columbia/Mountain Hardware thing is interesting... I would have bet that it would have been North Face instead of MH..

'32oz”

“Kelty is under "American Rec", to the right of the VF Corp Deathstar.”

“Glad to see some of my favorites are still loners.”

“The Death Stars were a nice touch.”

“They will probably all get corporate bailouts from Uncle Sam. They are just too big to fail now! Too bad all their products will eventually be Walmart quality do to corporate meddling.”

“Very interesting chart. My tent and backpack were made by people who started up in their garage. ULA Equipment is still making packs out of his garage. Most of the other stuff I have falls into the loner group. (At least for now)
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