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In its sales report for the fourth quarter, MCBC Holdings, which owns MasterCraft and NauticStar, announced a 6.3 percent sales gain compared to fourth quarter 2017, and that it will…

Polaris Industries Inc. — manufacturer of ATVs and snowmobiles — has purchased Boat Holdings LLC, signaling its entry into the marine world. The company now owns Bennington, Godfrey, Hurricane and…

Groupe Beneteau now has majority ownership of Seascape, a Slovenian company that builds four affordable and easily transportable sailboat models ranging from 14 to 27 feet. In 2017, they had…

S2 Yachts, the parent company of Tiara Yachts and Tiara Sport, announced it has a new director of marketing and communications, Whitney Vishey, who has been with S2 since 2014…

Star brite has announced the acquisition of Snappy Marine, Inc., a leading distributor of teak care products for the marine industry.

Navico Group — Lowrance, Simrad and B&G’s parent company — announced that C-Map and Navico have merged. The two have a “shared ambition” to fashion the “world’s biggest digital marine…

After consumer research showed increased interest, Hatteras is relaunching the Cabo Yachts brand at the 2019 Miami International Boat Show. The new model featured will be the Cabo 41, with…

Canadian marine company Rossiter Boats resumes operations under new ownership after declaring bankruptcy in June, due to a shortage of outboards above 150 hp. “We suspended production in early June…

The Michigan Boating Industries Association (MBIA) board has appointed Pete Beauregard, Jr., president of Colony Marine in St. Clair Shores, to the MBIA board of directors as the Southeast Regional…

In order to grow its new marine group, BRP announced it will buy the maker of Manitou pontoons, Triton Industries. The addition follows the news that the group purchased Alumacraft,…