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Doess anyone think solomon is a dying
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So far they have lost so many skiers i give em to years tops before they get messed up.
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I think it's a great company, they're just in transition.
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my moms a rep and she moves lots of skis, i ski on lots of them and there at the top of there game ski wise. I would say no, they make some good stuff, and just because they don’t hire as many pro skiers doesn’t mean they are on there way out!
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What a stupid remark only Rossignol-Quiksilver is bigger than Salomon, they have a market share that would make most other ski brands cry.
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there team is so sick. alexis godbout fucking kills
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salomon just got bought by atomic last year, they are in transition phase. no worries, salomon will be around for quite sometime.
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hells yes, they got sammy C, mike douglas, the olenicks, the dumont, and KAYA! plus their best skis ever in my opinion.
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they have some kick ass skis and they have signed some pretty good pros, so i dont think that they have "to" years left
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i have stock in HEAD so but head skis please
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Henitiuk
Godbout
Carlson
Olenick
Dumont
Gagnier
the only other team that comes close is Armada. no death here, looks like eternal livin'$
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The Dumont, Sammy Carlson, Abma, and I think CR....
.....they have a pretty sick team, i know there are more I just can't think of them right now.
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graphics wise, they are brutal, but thats all going to change.
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guys salomon is on top, they have a sick lineup and just keep sigining, look at mike clarke, hes about to blow up...
Oh and salomon's boots are by far the best on the market right now...
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At least for the time being, the graphics suck. At least they're straying away from foam cores and adjustable toe wing height (both just godaweful). But the company is huge and has a ton of money, no way its even close to struggling. After the Xscream, they drew in a ton of the older generation skiers. They sell skis and boots and shit like it was water.
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Where did you here this from and how is that going to change anything?
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They have some of the best gear out there, none should be worried about them finding people who want to get sponsored by salomon. Just give them time.
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Well the company is moving to Utah(Ogden) and they are going through some management adjustments.
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i have never heard of solomon
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you are so rediculously wrong its not even funny. how the fuck could salomon be dying with mike douglas, the olenicks, dumont, gagnier and cr?
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No way. They have dumont, sammy and gangier. 3 top notch skiers right there that are on top of the industry.
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i actually laughed when i read the title for this thread, salomon is no danger at all they have tons of money and tons of know how. if anything id say they are the most secure company in skiing right now.
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solomon mite be
but salomon deff isnt in any trouble
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they have charles gagnier...nuff said.
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are they taking the old rossi warehouse?
and ps. the 07 troublemakers are super sick, nice work
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best boots in the game. Everyone has salomon boots they could survive just on that
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they have ganier and he is leading the sport in my opninon
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i really used to liek there old skis but now they have lame graphics but is getting a little better with the dumont but with gagnier and dumont there they can do no wrong!
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this was interesting:
Herbert Hainer (CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board) for Adidas-Salomon said this:
The primary reason for selling Salomon was that, from our point of view, the winter sports
sector is not a growth market. In the past ten years, the sales volume of ski products,
including snowboards, has decreased from 7.5 million to 5.1 million units. That means the
market has declined by about 40 percent in the past ten years and we believe this decline is
likely to continue. Point number two is that manufacturing in the ski sector is still very much
driven by Europe. With the current dollar-euro exchange rates it is difficult to operate
profitably, and it has been that way for quite a few years now. And it will stay that way unless
you can realize synergies in the production sector, the way that Amer Corporation is doing
now with the Atomic and Salomon ski brands. Those were the main reasons for our decision
to sell Salomon.
With respect to the “cost” of Salomon, we sold Salomon for over € 500 million, after having
originally bought the entire Salomon group for € 1.1 billion. Now some people say that this
means we lost € 600 million on the sale. But the math does not work like that. We sold only
the Salomon segment and got about € 500 million for it. We kept the TaylorMade segment.
TaylorMade currently generates just under US $ 1 billion in sales.
So Salomon was dying, and we will wait and see what happens next...
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? This year they put out some of there best stuff possibly ever. The spk boot is a very progresive idea and the first gib specific boot to be mass marketed. Toss spk boot in the seacrh bar and look at the endless amount of threads, lots of interest from the newschoolers. The dumont pro has a wood core (thank god) and I think is what more park skis will become. It is slightly wider and designed to be mounted in the center. Not to mention their apperal has made some improvements this year, the loud, zero, and down jackets are sweet. Their bindings are probably the most if not right at the top for most popular used, at least thats what I've seen on newschoolers and local shops. Also look for their new fat ski coming out, it is going to be sweet. When you got guys like Mike Douglas and Mark Abama designing a fat ski it is going to shread. Speaking of their team, in my opinion Armada is the only one that is stronger, Rossi and Dynastar are close. Its funny that french guy has pro mods for 2 of those, and now rides for the third. Anyway they are strong as ever, I am not a rep and this is not a commerical or a plug, I just ride their skis, like them, and think they are moving in the right direction.
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how can u people like those shit skis of theirs, i like how u can spend less money and get better skis than salomon's
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you realise they aren't just a freestyle company? so you making assumptions about how well they're doin based on how many pro skiers are on their team is naive.
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strangely enough, Line was doing that shit a few years ago with the chronic...
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Someone offers you some chronics or dumont pros, what do you take?
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salomon is in the money, we sell so many of their boots.
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i would take the dumont pros, because i could get more money for them when i sold them for a pair of Armadas
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O.K. money aside. You pick some skis that you want to ride for the next season.
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I think there doing fine! timzilla should get on there team and monster it up.
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the dumonts are not wood core, salomon is not straying away from their foam core. not a single freestyle ski made by salomon is wood.
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no ur stupid there on top of there shit
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