Para cerrar el tema (es info de fijaciones pero para lo que estabamos hablando vale igual):
• Atomic ski binding. The site for this brand is at
[
www.atomicsnow.com]. The manufacturer
has a site at [
www.amersports.com]. This
firm has four main brands for various sports:
Atomic, Wilson, Suunto, and Precor and Atomic.
Atomic is their skiing-related brand. Amersports
is public and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
They had revenues of 1.1 Billion Euros in 2002.
18% of these revenues came from winter sports--
downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and
snowboarding. Atomic makes both skis and ski
bindings. 51% of Amersports revenues come
from North America. Atomic's products are
primarily manufactured in Austria. In 2002,
Amersports sold 540,000 Atomic bindings
worldwide. The Atomic division had revenues
of 200 million Euros and 19.6% operating profit.
Amersports estimates that 4.4 million pairs of
downhill skis were sold worldwide in 2002,
giving them 12.3% of the binding market.
• Look ski binding. I discovered that Look,
Dynastar, Lange and Rossignol the same
company. The parent company's name is
Rossignol and the English-language website is at
[
www.rossignolcorporate.com]. They had
revenues of 255 million Euros in 2002, of which
bindings were 41.4 million Euros. Total binding
production was 1.117 million pairs (making an
average selling price of about 38 Euros).
• Marker's is at [
www.markerltd.com] for the
brand and [
www.marker.de] for the
company headquarters in Germany. Marker's
parent controls Tecnica, Vöelki, Blizzard, Elan,
K2, Kneissl, and Dynafit. Tecnica (in Italy) is
the parent company. Tecnica also controls
Nordica, Dolomite, Lowa, and Rollerblade. I
found no financial information on their site.
• Salomon SA is located in Annecy, France, and
owned by Adidas-Salomon AG in Germany.
Their site is at [
www.adidas-salomon.com].
2002 revenues were 6.5 billion Euros and net
income was 229 million Euros for Adidas-
Salomon. Salomon's revenues were 684 million
Euros and net income was 39 million Euros.