Marlin Firearms closing

[edsinger]

This sucks! I like Marlin, move from the unions and anti-state. Indiana would be a good choice.

 

[Rizzo]

dying industrial strength

strangled to death by taxes, excessive regulations, unions, frivolous litigation, cheap foreign guns. Sad.

 

[ironjaw]

this news makes me sad. i own 3 marlins. i wonder if i need to purchase some parts or will they continue making parts for my 'babies'?

 

[CandRFan]

Hey wait!!! Tipton has the abandoned (BRAND NEW) GETRAG transmission plant on US 31!

They could have plenty of space there!

Yeah, I shake my head in disbelief every time I drive past that place. What a waste.

 

[XDinmyXJ]

Glad they aren't shutting down for good! I love my model 60 and will probably add another marlin or six!

 

[Sasquatchhunter]

My Marlin 60 is my favorite gun! I love that little thing. they are tanks. Sad news

 

[dbd870]

The rumors are NC will be the place - this is NOT confirmed.

 

[indykid]

I cannot understand how firearm manufacturers can remain in criminal friendly states. Look how many are around Chicago, and how many are in Connecticut and other New England states.

Dear Marlin, Give Mitch Daniels a call. I am sure firearm loving Indiana would be more than happy to pay your way here!

 

[jnicol6600]

Yea this is bad. Thier rifles were hard enough to find the way it is. I guess the money I was saving for a 1895stbl will have to find somewhere else to go.

 

[melensdad]

Marlin is RELOCATING but NOT closing

Marlin is RELOCATING but is NOT closing!

Marlin Being Relocated
The Outdoor Wire

After 140 years, the Marlin plant located in North Haven, Connecticut will be closed by the middle of next year. According to Remington Arms sources, the facility is being decommissioned and the manufacturing relocated to Remington's Ilion, New York facilities, the Marlin lines are not moving offshore.

For the North Haven community, it's an economic hit, impacting not just the 265 Marlin plant workers, but the cottage industries that have sprung up over time to service the Marlin workforce. When Marlin was acquired by Remington in 2008, there were 345 employees in North Haven and another 225 workers at the Marlin facility in Gardner, Massachusetts. Today, only 265 remain, and they've been notified they're not going to be working beyond mid-2011.

For the industry, the news is yet another sign that business as usual is coming to an end. As corporations acquire smaller brands, corporate efficiencies, and economies of scale trump history and community standing. After all, if the brands didn't fit inside a corporate portfolio and meet criteria that include efficiencies, the buy wouldn't make much sense to begin with.

When larger companies acquire smaller ones, consolidation is inevitable.

The process is no different nor more surprising from Remington concerning its family of companies than Smith & Wesson integrating the Thompson/Center operations into its Springfield, Massachusetts headquarters. Stock analysts I've spoken with have made it abundantly clear they'd like S&W stock better if T/C's facilities went away altogether. Fortunately, the analysts don't run companies, they observe them.

If smaller companies were operating efficiently and/or profitably, they would most likely not be candidates for takeover. It is their inherent inefficiencies which make them candidates for acquisition, despite any historical standing. Ultimately, companies exist to make money for owners, whether they be private or public. If a new owner thinks they can change profit-and-loss statements with consolidation, consolidation is inevitable.

For the company founded by John M. Marlin in 1870, it's a change in the kind of ownership lineage that has remained tied to New Haven and Connecticut communities. After acquiring Marlin from its original owner, the Kenna family owned and operated the company for nearly eighty-five years. Remington is the first corporate owner.

At this writing, it seems Marlin, Harrington and Richardson, New England Firearms and L.C. Smith- all Marlin brands -are destined for absorption into Remington's existing manufacturing facilities in Ilion, New York. Such a move would maximize use of that facilities and consolidate manufacturing operations. Consolidation is another efficiency necessary to compete with imported products.

Although it's purely speculation on my part, a consolidation move makes perfect sense if you're demonstrating lean operating abilities as part of some sort of market capitalization move. Bankers and investors are quite fond of consolidated operations, especially if the company happens to represent numerous iconic brands.
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[shooter521]

Thanks for posting this; it's certainly better news than earlier reports indicated.

 

[dbd870]

Long term shouldn't hurt you but short term I have to think you're right & there will be shortages. I hope there aren't QC problems when they start to come out of the new facility.

 

[shooter521]

The rumors are NC will be the place - this is NOT confirmed.

Marlin firearms will be built in Remington's Ilion, NY facility. This IS confirmed (see melensdad's post from the other thread, now merged here).

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

If you all like your damn Marlins so much, it might befit you to remember that they WERE made by skilled union craftsmen. Who said having a skilled and organized workforce made them uncompetitive? How in the name of Hades did unions get dragged into this mess, anyway? Remington decides to consolidate ops, ok. But why do you have to go picking on the poor working man who MAKES this quality product?

 

[Sweetums]

If you all like your damn Marlins so much, it might befit you to remember that they WERE made by skilled union craftsmen. Who said having a skilled and organized workforce made them uncompetitive? How in the name of Hades did unions get dragged into this mess, anyway? Remington decides to consolidate ops, ok. But why do you have to go picking on the poor working man who MAKES this quality product?

+1

 

[jnicol6600]

I dont know for sure but I dont think they were currently union per posts on marlinowners