Date:	Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:42:45 -1000
From:	dgomberg@ednet1.osl.or.gov (David Gomberg)
Message-Id: <199504041842.AA27143@ednet1.osl.or.gov>
Organization: Harvard University Office of Information Technology
Subject: Beaman/Easton



A question was asked several weeks ago about the status of
Beaman. I just received the following press release:

           EASTON PURCHASES BEAMAN

March 30, 1995, Salt Lake City, UT USA

Yesterday, the Court of Lyon France accepted the offer from Easton
to Purchase certain assets of Beaman SA, a French company. Beaman SA
has been operating under the protection of the bankruptcy court
for several months. Easton will take over the operation of the 
company on April 14, 1995.

Easton plans to work closely with the manufacturing facilities
in France to increase the flow of product into the dealer
network. Current sales and distribution programs for Beaman
products will remain unchanged for the 1995 season.

Beaman will continue to operate under its own brand name with
separate sales and marketing programs. manufacturing will
continue in the factory in Villeurbanne, France. Sales and
distribution for the European market will be carried out
through the French facility. The operations in the U.S.
will continue in Traverse City, MI.

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That's what I know .... Hope it helps.


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Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 1995 02:43:50 -1000
From:	salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne)
Message-Id: <3m0nm6$7en@pobox.csc.fi>
Organization: STACK Finland
Subject: Re: Beaman/Easton

In <199504041842.AA27143@ednet1.osl.or.gov> dgomberg@ednet1.osl.or.gov (David Gomberg) writes:

>           EASTON PURCHASES BEAMAN

>Easton plans to work closely with the manufacturing facilities
>in France to increase the flow of product into the dealer
>network. Current sales and distribution programs for Beaman
>products will remain unchanged for the 1995 season.

Well, time will tell what happens. Easton rejected kite
spar product line a couple of years ago. Kite products
were less than 20 0f Beman's turnover.

When they say "sales and distribution programs for Beaman
products will remain unchanged for the 1995 season", does
that mean Beman's delivery problems will not get solved?

Simo

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Date:	Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:10:52 -1000
From:	sasaki@netopd.harvard.edu (Marty Sasaki)
Message-Id: <3m3v7c$9s1@netope.harvard.edu>
Organization: Harvard OIT Network Services
Subject: Re: Beaman/Easton


In article <3m0nm6$7en@pobox.csc.fi>, salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne) writes:
|>When they say "sales and distribution programs for Beaman
|>products will remain unchanged for the 1995 season", does
|>that mean Beman's delivery problems will not get solved?

When I asked the folks at Beman USA about availability of parts and
spars, they told me to order early and order often. They didn't say it
explicitly, but I took this to mean that there would be no substantive
change in kite product availability through 1995.
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