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Brunswick Bowling & Billiards is the business segment of Brunswick Corporation that historically encompassed the following three divisions: * Billiards * Bowling centers (now owned by Bowlmor AMF) * Bowling equipment and products (now owned by BlueArc Capital Management) Brunswick announced in July 2014 its intention to leave the bowling business by the end of 2014. As part of the announcement, the company disclosed that it had agreed to sell the bowling center business, which brought in $187 million in revenue in the prior year, to its much larger competitor Bowlmor AMF for $270 million. It also disclosed that it had retained Lazard to find a buyer for its bowling equipment and products business. The company said it was making these changes to focus on its “core” Marine and Fitness businesses, which provided 92% of company net revenues in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/brunswick-corporation-brunswick-sell-retail-201701569.html;_ylt=AwrBJR_QMchT2BcArInQtDMD )〕 The sale of the bowling center division to Bowlmor AMF was completed in September 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bowlmor-amf-completes-acquisition-of-brunswick-corporations-bowling-center-business-2014-09-18?reflink=MW_news_stmp )〕 Brunswick completed its exit from the bowling business in May 2015 with the sale of the bowling equipment and products division to BlueArc Capital Management, a private investment firm based in Atlanta, GA. BlueArc completed the acquisition with investments from Gladstone Investment Corporation, a publicly traded business development company in McLean, Va., and Capitala Finance Corp., a business development company in Charlotte, N.C.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bowlersjournal.com/?p=10622 )〕 ==Billiards== The billiards division was established in 1845 and is Brunswick Corporation's heritage business. Brunswick Billiards designs and/or markets billiards tables, table tennis tables, air powered table hockey games, and other gaming tables, as well as billiard balls, cues, game room furniture, and related accessories, under the Brunswick and Contender brands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14930/000001493014000039/bc2013123110k.htm )〕 Consumer billiards equipment is predominantly sold in the United States and distributed primarily through dealers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14930/000001493014000039/bc2013123110k.htm )〕 John Brunswick built his first billiards table in 1845 at his woodworking shop in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a successful Chicago meatpacker. The popularity of billiards grew quickly, and by the late 1860s, the U.S. billiards market was dominated by Brunswick’s firm and two others. In 1873 Brunswick merged with one of his competitors, Julius Balke’s Cincinnati-based Great Western Billiard Manufactory, to form J.M. Brunswick & Balke Company. In 1884, the company merged with the other competitor, New York-based Phelan & Collender, to form the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. (The company name was changed to Brunswick Corporation in 1960.) The company grew quickly and added new product lines to its business in the 1880s. Brunswick began selling functional and decorative wooden backs for bars. Prohibition prompted a drastic change in the products offered by the company. And while the Depression was a difficult period for Brunswick, World War II brought a great deal of new business. The company's billiard products were popular in the United Service Organizations (USO) centers. More than 13,000 billiards tables were installed at military bases by 1945. In 1972 Brunswick Billiards began the design and manufacture air hockey tables. In 2008 the company introduced a line of game room furniture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Brunswick Corporation )〕 Brunswick Billiards dabbled in retail at two points in its history. In 1947 the company opened "Cue and Cushion" establishments, family-friendly billiards establishments that include a lounge and soda fountain. In 2003 the company opened its first “Home & Billards Store” in the Chicago area, and went on to open one other store in Boston and two in Denver. All of these establishments were later closed, and the company now sells its products exclusively through dealers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brunswick Bowling & Billiards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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