Navico now owns those three brands in addition to the Eagle, Lowrance, B&G, and Simrad lines.īrunswick’s range of boat brands includes the Boston Whalerīrunswick has established regional headquarters in Verviers, Belgium Monterrey, Mexico Dandenong, Australia and Dubai, UAE, to better serve its customers by designing, engineering, manufacturing and distributing products based on local needs, using local talent. When George Buckley, CEO at the time, left to join 3M in 2006, new leadership decided to sell Northstar, Navman and Mx-Marine. Brunswick then merged Navman, based in Auckland, New Zealand, with Northstar to make Northstar/Navman a supplier to the Brunswick Boat Groups. The same year, the company also purchased Northstar Technologies, a leading marine electronics provider based in Acton, Massachusetts, from Canadian Marconi Corporation (now CMC Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Esterline Technologies Corporation). Ģ020 is Brunswick’s 175th anniversary and the first year of its marine-only strategy.Īs of the early 21st century, the Brunswick Corporation still manufactured sporting and fitness equipment ( Life Fitness, Hammer Strength, Parabody) in addition to boats ( Sea Ray, Bayliner, Maxum, etc.) and marine engines under the Mercury Marine brand name. Brunswick sold its Hatteras/Cabo brand in 2013 to Versa Capital Management. In 2001, Brunswick acquired Hatteras Yachts from Genmar Industries for approximately $80 million in cash. In 1999, Brunswick sold its Roadmaster bicycle division and brand to Pacific Cycle. manufacture of such products was not viable in the presence of surging low-priced imports from overseas producers, primarily China. However, it became apparent that continued U.S. manufacturers of low-cost, mass-market bicycles. In 1997, Brunswick purchased the Roadmaster bicycle division, one of the last U.S. They also made radomes for the Patriot missile. ĭuring the Gulf War, Brunswick supplied the military with camouflage nets. In the 1980s, Brunswick became a major maker of yachts and pleasure boats, under brands including Bayliner, Boston Whaler, Maxum, Sea Ray, and Trophy. Another platform was the Rifleman's Assault Weapon, an unusual grenade launcher that used a spherical rocket propelled grenade.
The Brunswick Corporation patented a machine gun using a delayed blowback operation via a fluted chamber as part of the weapon's operation. In the 1970s, Brunswick introduced the automatic scorer, which electronically tallied the score instead of the bowler doing it by hand. Brunswick acquired Mercury Marine in 1961. The following year the company reported sales of $422 million. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company officially changed its name to the Brunswick Corporation on April 10, 1960. The 1950s also saw the introduction of a line of golfing equipment to compete with AMF in the leisure-products and sporting-goods markets.
Previously, Brunswick had made two models of semi-automated, manually operated "spotting tables" for the tenpin sport, that the "Model A" unit replaced. In 1949, the Brunswick "Model A" Mechanical Pinsetter fully automated unit premiered, for the purpose of handling bowling pins for the sport of tenpins, in competition with American Machine and Foundry (AMF). military.Īfter the war, Brunswick introduced a line of school furniture.
In 1930, Brunswick sold the control of the record company to Warner Brothers and came out with a line of refrigerators.ĭuring World War II, Brunswick-Balke-Collender made small target-drone aircraft for the U.S. In the late 1910s, they introduced a quickly popular line of disc phonograph records, under the name Brunswick Records. In the early 20th century, Brunswick expanded the product line to include such diverse products as toilet seats, automobile tires, and phonographs. It popularized bowling balls of manufactured materials, vulcanized rubber at first earlier bowling balls had been solid wood. Bowling balls, pins, and equipment led a growing line of sporting equipment. Large ornate neo-classical style bars for saloons were a popular product. The company expanded into making a number of other products. Bowling alley automatic pinsetter, US patent 2973204.
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