In the 80s, PLAYMAKER focused on badminton and tennis racket manufacturing and exporting. The success that we received from years of trading internationally have led us to believe that, in the foreseeable future, the competitive sports would play a big role in the world economy and in our company’s growth. Competitive sports would become a trend and revolutionize for the next 30 to 50 years.
While we fought through all the obstacles and enjoyed the success and growth, we faced a great challenge from the rise of China, South East Asia, Sri Lanka, and Eastern Europe, in their manufacturing ability. Coincidentally, the trend was shifting in the world of sporting goods. People went from swinging racket and roller-skating to ever-popular in-line skating. In-line skating became popular in the USA. We saw the opportunity for changing and started making skateboards and inline skates in Taiwan. It was overwhelming to see the growth and how people are crazy about in-line skating, so we took the steps and went west and started manufacturing plants in Fuzhou China to cope with large demands.
Because of the success in changing the company’s direction, we started researching and developing snowboards and wakeboards. Due to the high threshold, no other factories in Taiwan were optimistic about the investment, but we saw it as a challenge that we must over come. We spent countless amount of resources and capital in 8 years, had meetings with some key players in the industries, went through many corrections and modifications, we finally earned the respect and recognitions in our manufacturing ability and quality from our European and North American partners.
PLAYMAKER is the only sporting goods manufacturer in the world that does
exceptionally well in both winter sport (snowboard) and summer sport (wakeboard) equipment.
