Boating News

Riviera Beach gives section of waterfront to Viking for redevelopment

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. , a global, vertically integrated seaborne shipping and logistics company, announced the delivery of a new build Capesize vessel and the agreement to acquire another new build Capesize vessel.

Brunswick Corp. is closing a boat-building plant in Little Falls, Minn., and moving some production to a plant in Fort Wayne, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports on its Web site today.

(AP) a " Brunswick Corp. said Tuesday that it will close its Little Falls, Minn., aluminum boat plant and cut some jobs as it continues to rework its manufacturing strategy to become more competitive and provide better products. The boating industry has struggled during the economic downturn ...

Brunswick Corporation today announced that it will cease production and close down it's aluminum boat facility in Little Falls by this fall.

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Hatteras Yachts and Cabo Yachts chairman Bill Naumann of New Bern has resigned his post effective Feb.

FLIPPIN, Ark. - The Ranger Boats factory in Flippin is formally under new ownership.

Brunswick Corp. said Tuesday it would close its Little Falls, Minn., aluminum boat manufacturing plant and transfer part of the work to three other plants, including one in Fort Wayne.

The owner of IDS Center has begun marketing for lease the former Genmar Holdings Inc.

About 150 employees have been called back to work at Sea Ray Boats plants in East Tennessee this month, according to a report from the Knoxville News Sentinel .

LAKE FOREST, Ill., Jan. 28 -- /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brunswick Corporation today reported results for the fourth quarter of 2009: Total net sales of $657.3 million were down 22 percent versus 2008.

BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Thursday, January 28th and determining how the stocks have performed after their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and January earnings reports.

U.S. manufacturers face another tough year in 2010 after spending much of 2009 shrinking their businesses to cope with their worst slump in decades.

Fixed-fee arrangements between lawyers and their corporate clients are gaining popularity, but are they economical for both sides? For Lake Forest-based Brunswick Corp., its flat-fee contract for national litigation has exceeded expectations, said Kristin Coleman, general counsel.

" Brunswick Corp. is making its Dealer Advantage Gold- and Platinum-level dealer business services available to all of those dealers selling either Brunswick brand boats or Mercury Marine engines for the first time ever, the company reported in a recent release.

ESPN.com reported that Genmar Holdings has gone bankrupt, and a California investment group is likely to become owner of most of Genmar's boat companies, including Ranger.

Minneapolis businessman Irwin Jacobs said Wednesday that he expects to rehire up to 200 workers in the coming weeks to jump-start boat building in Pulaski, Wis.

LEGAL TEAM: Christopher Dekker , 41, and Keith Gibson , 39, have joined the law department of Lake Forest-based Brunswick Corp.

Long-known as the icon of "go-fast" powerboats, Cigarette Racing Team is about to "go to work" serving the country's military and law enforcement performance boat needs.