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The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois.Wilson makes equipment for many sports, among them baseball, badminton, American football, basketball, fastpitch softball, golf, racquetball, soccer, squash, tennis, pickleball and volleyball.
Badminton is frequently compared to tennis due to several qualities. The following is a list of manifest differences: Scoring: In badminton, a match is played best of 2 of 3 games, with each game played up to 21 points.
The first store on Linden St. in Wellesley carried the Gerry outdoor equipment line as well as downhill skis. 1967 advertisement In 1968, the two enterprises merged and built the 1041 Commonwealth Avenue store – at 10,000 sq. ft. McDonough and Furst sold the company in 1979 to The Franklin Mint , which was acquired by Warner Communications in ...
Mizuno was founded in 1906 as Mizuno Brothers, Ltd. by Rihachi Mizuno and his younger brother Rizo, in Osaka.The shop sold Western-world sundries, including baseballs, and then in 1907 began to sell order-made athletic wear.
Columbia Sportswear retail store in Hong Kong. The Columbia Sportswear Company is an American company that manufactures and distributes outerwear, sportswear, and footwear, as well as headgear, camping equipment, ski apparel, and outerwear accessories. It was founded in 1938 by Paul Lamfrom, the father of Gert Boyle.
The company was founded in 1989 by Li Ning, a former Chinese Olympic gymnast.As of 2015, Li Ning remained the chairman of the company's board of directors. [3] In 2005, Li-Ning created a joint-venture with French sports apparel company, AIGLE, giving Li-Ning the exclusive right to be the sole distributor of AIGLE's products in China for 50 years. [4]
Babolat (/ ˈ b ɑː b oʊ l ɑː /) is a French tennis, badminton, and padel equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by professional and recreational players worldwide. The company has made strings since 1875, when Pierre Babolat created the first strings made of natural gut.
Victor was founded in 1968 by Chen Den-li (陳登立), producing badminton shuttlecocks which in two years topped the sales in Taiwan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It expanded its distribution to Europe after Guido Schmidt started the distribution with VICTOR Sport Vertriebs GmbH as the trademark rights holder for the continent. [ 6 ]