Duane said: >It may have not happened this time, but the purchasing of kayak manufacturers by large corporations seems to be a trend, one that I haven't been liking. It seems that more and more the kayak manufacturers, many of them now owned by large corporations, are looking for only more profits by selling mediocre designs and lay-ups for the mass public rather than sea kayakers.< Current Designs should be off the island any week now, having been bought out a while back, but just recently being told they are being moved to the USA, where _local government tax-break incentives_ reportedly lured the head company to make the decision to move the Canadian/BC operations plant. Likeminded tax breaks here in Canada? When hell freezes over. Kinda sad, but oh so Canadian. Doug Lloyd Victoria BC *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 21:19:21 PDT
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