Sporting-Goods Maker Vista Outdoor Gets $2.9 Billion Takeover Offer

Retail
Written By Rick Watson

Vista Outdoor is a leading global designer, manufacturer, and marketer of outdoor recreation products.

Outdoor recreation platform Vista Outdoor received a $2.9 billion takeover offer from PE firm MNC Capital Partners at $35 per share, which it reviewed and ultimately turned down. Vista Outdoor would agree to a deal in which it divided itself in two, selling its ammunition business, The Kinetic Group, to Czechoslovak Group (CSG) for $2.2 billion. Its performance gear brand, Revelyst, was sold to Strategic Value Partners for a reported $1.1 billion.

WSJ: Sporting-Goods Maker Vista Outdoor Gets $2.9 Billion Takeover Offer

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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