Escalade, Incorporated announced that the Escalade Board of Directors appointed David L. Fetherman as Escalade's Chief Executive Officer and President effective immediately. Mr. Fetherman has served as President, Escalade Sports since April, 2012, and he will continue in that role in addition to being Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Fetherman previously served as Vice President, Sales, Escalade Sports since October, 2007.
Mr. Fetherman will replace Robert J. Keller, who has resigned from all of his positions with Escalade, including as Chief Executive Officer and President, and as a director. In conjunction with these executive management changes, Escalade's Board of Directors also appointed Mr. Fetherman as a director of Escalade to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Keller's resignation.
Escalade, Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells sporting goods, fitness, and indoor/outdoor recreation equipment. It operates in one business segment: Sporting Goods (Escalade Sports). Escalade Sports manufactures, imports, and distributes sporting goods brands in basketball goals, archery, indoor and outdoor game recreation and fitness products through sporting goods retailers, specialty dealers, key on-line retailers, direct-to-consumer e-commerce, traditional department stores and mass merchants. Its archery brands include Bear Archery, Trophy Ridge, Whisker Biscuit, Cajun Bowfishing, Karnage, SIK and BearX. Its table tennis brands include STIGA and Ping-Pong. Its basketball brands include Goalrilla, Goalsetter, Goaliath, Silverback and Hoopstar. Its billiard tables and accessories brands include American Heritage Billiards, Brunswick Billiards, Gold Crown, Centennial and others. Its outdoor games brands include Victory Tailgate, Triumph Sports, Zume Games and ACL.
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