By Russ, on May 19th, 2008
Blogs like mine can get quite excited by the comparison of competing brands of electronic device in the market place. But the recent news of Garmin’s bid to buy Raymarine prompted me to do some digging. It appears that over the past 4 years there has been a real consolidation of some very famous and popular brands into the hands of relatively few companies.
So what do B&G®, Eagle®, Lowrance, MX Marine, Navman, Northstar and Simrad® all have in common? Well I’ll tell you – its Navico – who? – that well known privately held Norwegian company…
About Navico (www.navico.com) Navico
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By Russ, on May 19th, 2008
Garmin is the mystery bidder behind a takeover approach for Britain’s Raymarine Plc. Garmin’s approach could be worth as much as 200 million pounds ($389 million)
Raymarine Plc has two sites in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Corporate headquarters are based in Anchorage Park, and house the Factory service and Repair facility. Quay Point is the engineering and design headquarters. Raymarine floated on the London Stock Exchange on 6 December 2004, and was a landmark event in the long and successful history of Raymarine.
A number of private equity companies are also thought to be eyeing Raymarine, officials at Raymarine were not immediately available to
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By Russ, on May 17th, 2008
I bumped into an old friend at the marina last week who showed me his brand new power boat a Sealine SC35 – wow what a boat. I do not – of course – approve of power boats – but I must say that sitting in the cockpit sipping champagne on a balmy summers evening was rather cool…
What struck me most was how beautifully modern it looked – not bling but chic..everything was still perfectly functional for seafaring but at speed – 34 knots to be precise!..all coming from 2 x 260hp diesel engines.
Being ever practical,
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