Outfitter MFg sold

[Pacific Northwest yetti]

Outfitter has been sold

Outfitter Mfg Acquired by Entrepreneur, Scott Mavis | Truck Camper Adventure

Outfitter Sold to Entrepreneur, Scott Mavis, Outfitter Truck Campers, Outfitter Apex 8, Outfitter Caribou, Outfitter Caribou Lite, Outfitter Juno

www.truckcamperadventure.com

may be a good thing, Scott who bought it seems to have a lot of experience ( on paper) with successful products. I had had decent luck with getting parts from them in the past ( until Aug, now I know why that order was never completed)

 

[locrwln]

Interesting. They would do well just to get the business and marketing side straightened out. I don't think there was a problem per se with the quality, but the last couple of years, you weren't even sure they were still in the camper business.

Jack

 

[Pacific Northwest yetti]

Yeah, I have bought parts through them as im working on mine; and honestly it was not easy to " give them money" I had to really be a bit of a squeaky wheel. And had another, large sum i had inquired about, and given the go ahead for. and just never heard back, right about August.

So what you had said, and then a dedicated parts dept... or email address at least

 

[A WANDERER]

I may be close to Outfittermfg next week Tuesday, if I am I will stop and look into it.

 

[docdave]

I stopped in a while back and looked at their new molded design, looked pretty darn cool to me.

 

[Pacific Northwest yetti]

Yeah if you stop, we would love to know!

Sent from somewhere remote on my BlackBerry

 

[deminimis]

^^ Ditto!!

 

[eblau]

The story here is it was acquired by a private equity firm, same thing that happened over at FWC. Private equity is not about small, slow money. With Outfitter being such a tiny brand I predict they make some changes to the product, get the manufacturing process straight, ramp up sales for a few years then sell to a large corporate camper company who will either expand Outfitter or harvest the things that Outfitter had done right over the years and rebrand it altogether. That article was a puff piece about the transaction with the usual verbiage something to the tune of "we will continue on in their footsteps" and "I am one of you (outdoorsman) so I know what direction to take this company in" and my favorite " we will listen to you and design products around the end user" YEAH. Now go re-read the article with this in mind and you will get a sense of what I am talking about. When private equity steps in its time to hit the pause button as a consumer and think about what is really going on within.