Hobie has joined the new national Paddlesport Manufacturer (soon including retail) Association
https://paddlingmag.com/paddling-business/paddlesports-trade-coalition/Quote:
includes a broad center of influential brands. Hobie, NRS and Johnson Outdoors are all represented on the interim board.
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Priorites included working together to make the sport more accessible and inviting, and to monitor and engage in federal and state legislation affecting paddlesports. There was talk of real cooperation on sales data, electronic ordering tools, standardized preseason schedules, and perhaps even shared shipping. The need for a trade show by and for paddlesports—or at least one better serving the industry’s needs—was near the top of everyone’s list.
https://www.paddlesportstradecoalition.org/home