Johnson Outdoors Inc - Ordinary Shares - Class A

Description

Johnson Outdoors Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets outdoor equipment, diving, watercraft, and marine electronics products worldwide. The company's Marine Electronics segment provides battery-powered fishing motors for trolling or primary propulsion, marine battery chargers, and shallow water anchors; sonar and GPS equipment for fish finding, navigation, and marine cartography; and downriggers for controlled-depth fishing. This segment sells its products under the Minn Kota, Humminbird, and Cannon brands through outdoor specialty and Internet retailers, retail store chains, marine products distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and distributors. Its Outdoor Equipment segment offers consumer tents, commercial and military tents and accessories, sleeping bags, camping furniture, and other recreational camping products; portable outdoor cooking systems; and field compasses, as well as acts as a subcontract manufacturer for other providers of military tents. This segment sells its products under the Eureka!, Jetboil, and Silva brands through independent sales representatives and Internet retailers. The company's Watercraft segment provides kayaks, canoes, personal flotation devices, and paddles through independent specialty and outdoor retailers under the Necky, Ocean Kayaks, Old Town, Extrasport, and Carlisle brands. Its Diving segment offers underwater diving and snorkeling equipment consisting of regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers and gauges, wetsuits, masks, fins, snorkels, and accessories for recreational divers under the SCUBAPRO brand name. This segment also provides regular maintenance, product repair, diving education, and travel program services; and sells diving gear to dive training centers, resorts, public safety units, and armed forces. It sells its products through specialty dive stores, as well as through Websites. Johnson Outdoors Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.