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3DHS and Extreme Flight Merger?

Luke352

New to GSN!
Easy there, a takeover has to do with buying a majority share of stock. Neither one of these companies issues stock the last I heard. A Merge is exactly what happened. The two parties saw that their interests were aligned and set up a strategy for capitalizing on economies of scale in shipping, warehousing, customer service, the success of two very strong brands bringing revenue under the same roof, eliminating any other redundancies of operating separately and setting up for more successful future operations. I see a lot of creativity in what they have done and am very interested to see how it plays out. From all appearances it looks like Ben and Chris know each other very well and share a lot of respect. This could work out really really well for both of them.

Takeover is probably not the right word. But everything points to 3DHS not existing as a company in its own right anymore. It comes under the EF family i.e. they were bought out, and although many of the staff and aircraft may continue for now I just don't see it in the long term.
 

clarkj

70cc twin V2
Ive never had an aeroworks overweight. 59cc extra with no carbon fiber upgrades that came in at 16lbs 13oz. 100cc edge and extra that weighed 27lbs 4oz. 50cc edge with a da60 that weighed under 17lbs. Ive never called aeroworks and had them say they dont have a part i needed. :popcorn:
 

Ohio AV8TOR

Just Do It
T It comes under the EF family i.e. they were bought out, and although many of the staff and aircraft may continue for now I just don't see it in the long term.

While I don't disagree with the first part like any business sales will dictate the long term product line. I am not thinking this was a plan to buy and fold. There has always been two loyal camps, give them what they want and that equal $$$ cater to one side and goodbye 3DHS customers. Having owned extensive models of each brand I think this is going to be great providing they don't grow to the point they loose focus on what got them there. I would hate to see this be the beginning of the Hanger 9/Great Planes business model.
 

3dNater

3DRCF Regional Ambassador
Bought out and merge are two totally different things. I work in accounting on a huge client that has close to a hundred distinct business units. If someone is bought out they hand the other person the keys and walk away. That is not what happened here. Having a parent company just means they are consolidating resources and benefitting from horizontal integration. I don't care to have a battle over the ego related issue of who's name is on the parent company. It really means nothing. It was going to be one or the other and for all we know they flipped a coin. It truly could have just as easily gone the other way. It is a partnership, plane and simple and unless Ben and Chris simply can't agree to the point their relationship fractures we will see them both heavily involved going forward. Equity positions would be influenced by the business valuation of both units and that would have been a fun conversation to listen to as a fly on the wall.

Like Ohio Aviator said, results of future operations will influence future strategy in terms of which product lines they choose to keep. It will be really interesting to see what emerges in the future as a result of this. As far as 3dhs existing as a company in its own right, that is true. The same can be said for EF. Both companies are no longer the same thing they were because they have combined to create something new, a family of brands with Chis and Ben, and I'm guessing Noll as business partners.
 

Bushwacker

3DRCF Moderator
Has the head of each camp spoke out publicly about the who, what, why and the reasons for why they have chosen to do what they did? If so could ya share a link please.
 

SnowDog

Moderator
Has the head of each camp spoke out publicly about the who, what, why and the reasons for why they have chosen to do what they did? If so could ya share a link please.

Here are all the details of the merger from the owners themselves.

[video=youtube_share;ZLzCcU56yfQ]http://youtu.be/ZLzCcU56yfQ[/video]
 

Bushwacker

3DRCF Moderator
Thanks Dog,

Man how I love the one piece covering and wow that big ass MXS looks amazing. Like I said before, should be interesting to see where these guys go.
 

3dmike

640cc Uber Pimp
I wonder how the heck they are able to do one piece covering! That's quite the amazing technical feat.
 

3dNater

3DRCF Regional Ambassador
I am wondering how that will impact costs. It will surely cost different materials and machine time to print the covering... bringing in ink costs etc. and removing extra layers of covering, but it should save a grundle of man-hours in labor. I'm guessing it will have an impact on build time. I hope it is a positive impact. It will depend on whether that process creates a bottleneck in their build process.
 
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