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The one I’m most familiar with is StClair Intl. Fred started his micro company to sell high quality shooting products. With the help of his son-in-law they grew it to a several million dollar company. Brownells bought it out. In order to make more money they stopped making their catalog, stopping going to shooting matches, replaced their knowledgeable sales force with sales people now guess what happened. We used to sell them over $200,000 a year. How could you have guessed, last year it was $12,000. Our sales didn’t go down, our other vendors took up the slack.
When and company buys out another company they do it to make more money. The way they do it is to cut cost. Quality is the first casualty, if you are StClair or Tiffin it doesn’t matter the results are the same.
Lynwood
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