Comments on: Yes, CamelBak is Selling Gloves

By: brock

brock — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:45:02 +0000

OR makes military stuff: http://military.outdoorresearch.com/site/index.html

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:35:43 +0000

CamelBak bought the company that makes the gloves Southwest Motorsports

By: Big Jim

Big Jim — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:58:16 +0000

I think the bottom line is that Oakley/Camelbak/whoever is filling a market need that hasn’t existed before. To the aircrew and special ops communities, those Oakley gloves are the gucci stuff, because they don’t know any better. If BD or some other core brand came out w/ a tactical line, they’d create sales for themselves. Arc’teryx is already all over it w/ their LEAF line. Who else wants a piece of that DoD pie?

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:44:01 +0000

Yeah, they bought SW Motorsports - who’ve been around for a while. They seem to share some designs with Mechanix, and share the same market segments: motor racing and military. I doubt Camelbak will change much apart from the name on the label

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:13:39 +0000

Screw tactical, I want some strategic gloves.

By: bryantp

bryantp — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:16:58 +0000

The “tactical” comes from the boardroom’s tactical decision to try and poach another market segment.

By: jah

jah — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:11:51 +0000

Write a comment…About 5 years ago Camelbak bought Southwest Motorsports, a specialist manufacturer of gloves for military applications.