companies that are together?

[mrpike1973]

hi i was surprised to find out today that berkly owns pflueger and there products. is there any other companies that own others. i believe zebco and quantam are the same it just surprised me. i thought one brand name was by itself anyone else know others that are together just curious.

[magic_minnow]

Shimano and G.Loomis, Coleman (yes the camping guys) and Terminator

[leakywaders]

I think you will be very surprised at how many name brands are owned by one giant company.

leakywaders

[Scott K]

Johnson, Minkota, Humminbird

[fishwater]

BLUE FOX, LUHR JENSEN, RAPALA, SUFIX, TRIGGER-X, TERMINATOR, VMC Hooks and WILLIAMSON are all one company.

[river rat316]

Add Storm into the company with Rapala

Pradco owns a bunch to. I think its Booyah, Excalibur, bomber, and either zoom or yum, Lindy might be in that group now to, and a couple others.

Berkely is a big comglomerate with berkely, pflueger, abu garcia, coleman camping, all star, and a couple others I can't remember.

Most of these companies are operated seperatley with the exception of most Pradco, I believe they are all officed out of the same area. and Built somewhere in South America.

[hamms-scooter]

pure fishing owns most of the main companies now like berkley,abu garcia,stren,spiderwire,mitchell,fenwick....

[bigbad401]

Even Pure Fishing is owned my a larger corp called Jarden Corporation. Very interesting, look at what they own:

Consumer Solutions

Bionaire®, Crock-Pot®, FoodSaver®, Harmony®, Health o meter®, Holmes®, Margaritaville Cargo®, Mr. Coffee®, Oster®, Patton®, Rival®, Seal-a-Meal®, Sunbeam®, VillaWare®, White Mountain®, and Zarafina®.

Personal Comfort & Wellness

Arius Eickert®, Oster Style®, Sunbeam Bedding®, and Sunbeam Hospitality®.

Animal Solutions

Hydrosurge®, and Oster Pro®.

Apparel and Footwear

Adio®, Cappel®, ExOfficio®, Hodgman®, Mad Dog Gear®, Marmot®, and Planet Earth®.

Leisure and Entertainment

American Painter®, Aristocrat®, Arttec®, Aviator®, Bee®, Bicycle®, Contemporary Crafts®, Forster®, Hoyle®, KEM®, Loew-Cornell®, and Totally You®.

Consumer Staples

Ball®, Bernardin®, Diamond®, Java Log®, Kerr®, Northland®, Pine Mountain®, and StarterLogg®.

Safety and Security

BRK®, Crawford®, Dicon®, First Alert®, Lehigh®, Leslie-Locke®, M&K Products®, One Link®, SecureLine®, Storehorse®, Tundra®, Ultra Hold®, and Wellington®.

Outdoor Recreation

Campingaz®, and Coleman®.

Winter Sports

5150Snowboards®, Atlas Snow Shoes®, Full Tilt®, K2 Alpine Touring®, K2 Skate ®, K2 Skis®, K2 Snowboards®, Karhu®, Line®, Madshus, Marker®, Morrow®, Ride®, Tubbs Snow Shoes®, and Volkl®.

Fishing

Abu Garcia®, All Star Rods®, Berkley®, Fenwick®, Gulp!®, Johnson®, JRC Products®, Mitchell®, Penn®, Pflueger®, Shakespeare®, Spiderwire®, Stren®, Trilene®, Ugly Stick®, and XTools®.

Team Sports

Brass Eagle®, deBeer®, Hilton®, Miken®, Rawlings®, ViewLoader®, and Worth®.

Water Sports

Helium®, Sevylor®, Sospenders®, and Stearns®.

[OnAFly]

That's interesting that Rapala would be under the same company as Storm. Why would you want to own two competing businesses?

[BuschPilot]

Don't forget Victoria and Secret- it was V-day!!

[bobbymalone]

That's interesting that Rapala would be under the same company as Storm. Why would you want to own two competing businesses?

to give the illusion that you are given choices and there is competition, but no matter what you buy you are giving money to the same people.

[CJH]

Which is one of the reasons why Rapala can maintain their premium pricing. They obviously put out a good product, so it obviously isn't hurting them in that regard.