October 22nd, 2010
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In interesting industry news, Viking Pools/Latham International has purchased Blue Hawaiian pools. For those of you unfamiliar with BH, they have plants in Florida and North Carolina and have been a significant manufacturer of fiberglass swimming pools for quite a few years now.
This news was confirmed to me yesterday by more than one current BH dealer and the transition appears to be happening over the coming month or so.
If I may think aloud for a second, the news of this purchase does come as quite a surprise to me. Although I’m not surprised BH has gone this route, I’m curious to know Viking’s strategic intentions with such a purchase, and I assume Latham’s CEO, Mark Laven, will soon release a statement regarding the matter. Some general questions I have are as follows, and I welcome answers from anyone who may have them:
So those are some of my thoughts regarding this most interesting transaction. With everything that has happened in the economy over the past couple of years, I’m sure this won’t be the last news we hear of major shifts and changes in the fiberglass pool manufacturing arena.
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