Brunswick announce closure of its Pin Plant in USA
Monday, January 14th, 2008
This story is very interesting, on Dec 17th we watched the first annual meeting results and reported closings possible, well it looks to be true. the below artical published on the web by CNN news shows a worring time for the old bowling giants.
“Brunswick Bowling & Billiards announced today that it is shifting bowling pin production from its Antigo, Wis., facility to a contract manufacturer, resulting in the immediate closure of the Antigo facility. Brunswick Bowling & Billiards is a unit of Brunswick Corporation” .
“The marketplace has evolved, and the industry has more capacity to provide pins than it can support,” explained Warren N. Hardie, president of Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. “By utilizing contract manufacturing, Brunswick will be able to better focus its efforts on serving customers in the global bowling products market.”
The closing of the Antigo facility will result in the elimination of approximately 70 positions. Antigo employees were informed of this action today, and will receive severance and other benefits. The company will be meeting with local union bargaining agents to determine those benefits for union members. Further, Brunswick will continue to pay employees for the next 60 days, even though the plant will be immediately closed, allowing employees to focus their energies on finding their next job, if that is what they so choose.
Closing the Antigo plant is expected to result in charges of approximately $4.5 million in 2008.
The good news is we have the all new Switch SDG301 pin available, at RRP£105.00 per box, However we have reduced the price to an amazing special offer price of £88.00 per box for JAN 08. Which will be a very competitive price and in return you will recieve the All NEW LONG LIFE SDG301!
