When you wish to know more about various snowboard brands that are selling snowboards, you will no doubt is faced with a lot to choose from. There are some very famous snowboard brand names while others may only be known to a select number of people, while still others may only just be entering into the market, because face it, snowboarding is now becoming much more popular and the number of players in the field that are making snowboards are also increasing. Among the more popular snowboard brands you will be sure to come across names such as Burton, GNU, Academy, Forum and also Nitro, and there are many more as well.
Thirty To Thirty-Five Percent Market Share
There is little to doubt the fact that among all the snowboard brands you may have heard of, the name of Burton Snowboards ranks the highest and it is supposed to be the numero uno in snowboards having a market share that is estimated at between thirty to thirty-five percent. The company was the creation of Jake Burton Carpenter who founded the company in 1977 which has now become a specialist company in everything snowboarding including outerwear and accessories besides hard goods.
Burton Snowboards does more than simply sell its own brand of snowboard, and it has many a sub-brand that lay emphasis on specialty products and among these sub-brands you can find names such as Anon Optics that sell eyewear as well as snowboard goggles and also R.E.D. Protection for body armor and also helmets. And, this snowboard brand company has also recently acquired some additional snowboard brands in the form Forum Snowboarding, Jeenyus Snowboards and Foursquare Outerwear as well as Special Blend Outerwear, which shows what a leading snowboard brand Burton Snowboard is.
Among the leading personalities in snowboarding that are known users of another famous snowboard brand called Global, you can include the names of greats such as Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Romain De Marchi and Gigi Ruf in the men’s field while for women users you would find the names of Anne-Flore Marxer and also Victoria Jealouse as too Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark and Natasza Zurek.
Similarly, there are as many, if not more famous users of Burton Snowboard, which only goes to show how even individuals have their own preferences when it comes to the snowboard brand that appeals to them the most. In fact, the popularity of individual snowboard brands can be judged when you consider that a Burton Snowboard three day sale in the year 2006 resulted in more than seven thousand attendees that came to Burlington where the sale was taking place.
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