15 days after buying out Pure Fishing(berkley)....Jarden(Coleman Outdoors) buys out Shakespeare and all the brands it has aquired. Wonder how this will affect things. :-?

I doubt the consumer will notice much difference.

For guys like me that work with Shakespeare, I will either

have a lot more brands available to me or I will get cut from

the mix and not have anything left. Time will tell.

JT Bagwell

I dont see why you would get cut JT.... The numbers that have been thrown around by the reports from the business periodicals(wall street journal,etc.) about the sales. I would have never thought these co. would be worth and also have the sales they had. I think PF did $300 million worth of business last year.PF has been restructured in the recent past to make it a more appealing investment for a bigger company to want to aquire so their plan worked well. I dont remember all the details, but will see if i can dig them up. I was really suprised.

So what companies does Coleman own now? It seems like they're getting a monopoly.