Escalade Sports owns a wide variety of game room brands
They own Prince,Stiga, and Ping Pong Original (ping pong) Arachnid, Accudart, Bullshooter, Unicorn, Winmau, and Nodor (Darts), Mizerak and Minnesota Fats(Billiards), Triumph(Outdoor games) and Silverback(Basketball). Anything branded as DMI Sports is also an Escalade product. They also own several archery brands.
At many stores that sell these types of sporting goods, you will only find Escalade brands.
Everyone talks about how Lux is a "secret monopoly, is Escalade Sports in the same league as them?
That is an impressive portfolio. Maybe close to a monopoly on indoor game rooms with their brands in table tennis, darts and billiards. But I think you can still find brands outside their umbrella.
I meant to write Luxottica instead of Lux, they are the parent company of most brands of sunglasses.
Escalade seems to be trying to do the same thing for game room stuff. I have noticed that all game room items sold at Sears are Escalade products.
I’ve never gotten the impression there was anything “secret” about Luxottica’s ownership of the majority of higher end sunglass brands. Back in the day I bought a pair of Revo sunglasses from Sunglass Hut. The salesman at SG made no bones about SG being owned, operated by, and selling exclusively Luxottica sunglasses. And Luxottica seems to limit themselves to higher end when it comes to sunglasses. There are plenty of other options out there. We’re not talking DeBeers here.
On a side note, they also own a lot of the chain eyeglass centers. (Target and LensCrafters are two of theirs, IIRC.) And though I go to a local eye doctor for my glasses needs, I’m pretty sure at the Luxottica-owned businesses sell other frames/lenses not made by their parent company.