![]() ![]() founder Rickett, decided to move pool and air hockey table production from Mexico back to Texas. ![]() In 2009, Valley-Dynamo "was acquired by a limited partnership controlled by Kelye Stites," owner of Champion Shuffleboard Ltd., "and other businesses in the Dallas/Fort Worth area." The sale amount was not disclosed, but was rumored to be surprisingly low ($3 to 5 million). Brunswick moved Valley-Dynamo's manufacturing operations to Reynosa, Mexico in 2006. ![]() The increasingly market-dominant enterprise was bought for US$34.5 million by, and was made a subsidiary of, Brunswick Corporation in 2003, as Valley-Dynamo LLC. In 1999, then known as Valley Recreation Products, Valley absorbed and merged with both Tornado Table Sports and Dynamo Corp., and centralized operations at the Dynamo facilities in Richland Hills, Texas (a Dallas-Ft. Industries, and Fenway Partners with Rickett still the majority shareholder. History Īs Valley Co., the original company was founded by Earl Feddick in 1947 in Bay City, Michigan, where it remained under the auspices of a series of controlling companies including Kidde Inc., U.S. Annual sales were up to US$15–17 mil, as of May 2009. The company has distributors in some two dozen countries. The company also manufactures other market-leader brand names, including Tornado brand table football (foosball), Dynamo air hockey, and Champion indoor shuffleboard tables, as well as Sun Glo shuffleboard equipment, for both the home and coin-op markets. It has been the dominant manufacturer of coin-operated pool tables in North America for over 6 decades, and produces the US-ubiquitous Valley brand and decreasingly common Dynamo brand (once a competitor). ![]() is a gaming and sporting goods manufacturing company. ![]()
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