Now they are “collectible”Yeah, I think I saw where Frmr has left Hudson. I really am bummed by this, the company going down that is, because I really liked their products concept and was looking forward to whatever else they came out with.
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From what I understand it is the same story told a million times. Company has a great product after spending millions in design. Company hires great people to oversee all aspects of the production and sale of the excellent product.
Owners of the company start spending the money hand over fist as it starts to roll in on themselves assuming that they will never have hard times again.
Said excellent employees get asked to take massive pay cuts and then go a couple of months with no paycheck at all while owners still living high off that old hog.
I see it as a lack of long term business acumen. A product is just that, a product. A company can be built around a product, but there aren’t many noteworthy single-product companies out there... in fact not a single one is coming to mind. You have to have a product line and an innovation pipeline, or an acquisition plan (acquire or be acquired).Thats two companies who I know of that made pretty awesome firearms products that folded. Pretty sad. I wonder if it is hubris? I have this great product so I should be able to manage a company that is all about it.
I see it as a lack of long term business acumen. A product is just that, a product. A company can be built around a product, but there aren’t many noteworthy single-product companies out there... in fact not a single one is coming to mind. You have to have a product line and an innovation pipeline, or an acquisition plan (acquire or be acquired).
What was the other “warsport” ??Thats two companies who I know of that made pretty awesome firearms products that folded. Pretty sad. I wonder if it is hubris? I have this great product so I should be able to manage a company that is all about it.
Thats two companies who I know of that made pretty awesome firearms products that folded. Pretty sad. I wonder if it is hubris? I have this great product so I should be able to manage a company that is all about it.
Actually Carmex has over 3 dozen different products including different flavors, a “natural” line, and different form factors. Tootsie roll owns a dozen different brands including Andes mints, blow pop, dots, double bubble, junior mints and more. But even tootsie rolls come in different sizes and in tootsie pops. It would be like Hudson offering a std, compact, sub compact, and competition model.Carmex, Tootsie Roll...but yeah...I feel ya.
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I think I’d be set with the first 2. GT3 is one of my dream cars! #3 sounds good but is also an oxymoron hahaPrecisely what would happen if I ran the company. Fist time I'm flush with a couple couple hundred G's, it would be an epic digression:
911 GT3
Les Baer BBQ gun
fancy stripper girls
too much yayo
become addicted to gambling on boxing/horses and hanging out with rappers
downward spiral into a 25 to life sentence
...which were slated to come in the future...just how tootsie pop started with one treat, and carmex started with one product...and then thereafter expanded. Point being, a lot of companies start out as one hit wonders, and then diversify...if the survive long enough. Hudson, unlike the rest, did not.Actually Carmex has over 3 dozen different products including different flavors, a “natural” line, and different form factors. Tootsie roll owns a dozen different brands including Andes mints, blow pop, dots, double bubble, junior mints and more. But even tootsie rolls come in different sizes and in tootsie pops. It would be like Hudson offering a std, compact, sub compact, and competition model.
Oh ok. Didn’t know they had plans to expand the line. I never really looked into them much as I’m not a $1k pistol kind of guy....which were slated to come in the future...just how tootsie pop started with one treat, and carmex started with one product...and then thereafter expanded. Point being, a lot of companies start out as one hit wonders, and then diversify...if the survive long enough. Hudson, unlike the rest, did not.
Well, to be fair, I don't have a line on their entire business plan (which apparently they didn't either...) so, who knows.Oh ok. Didn’t know they had plans to expand the line. I never really looked into them much as I’m not a $1k pistol kind of guy.
Precisely what would happen if I ran the company. Fist time I'm flush with a couple couple hundred G's, it would be an epic digression:
911 GT3
Les Baer BBQ gun
fancy stripper girls
too much yayo
become addicted to gambling on boxing/horses and hanging out with rappers
downward spiral into a 25 to life sentence
or hookers and blowIt takes a disciplined mind to not let short term success sabotage the future of your company.
Glock and HiPoint had sex and baby H9 was born deformed. Yuck.
That is indeed odd.I always wondered why they even bothered adding the accessory rail. It would be the most awkward thing in the world to use a WML on that pistol........
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