Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company
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| Traded as | : BC S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | September 15, 1845 |
| Founder | John Moses Brunswick |
| Headquarters | Lake Forest, IL, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Dustan E. McCoy (Chairman of the Board) & (CEO) |
| Revenue |
 US$4.489 billion (2016) |
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US$409 million (2016) |
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US$276 million (2016) |
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| Total assets |
US$3.285 billion (2016) |
| Total equity |
US$1.44 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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14,415 (2016) |
| Divisions | List of Divisions |
| Website | Brunswick.com |
The Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American corporation that is active in developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products since 1845. Today, Brunswick Corporation is home to some of the world's most powerful lifestyle brands including Life Fitness, Mercury Marine, and many popular boating brands such as Sea Ray, Bayliner, Crestliner, Boston Whaler, and Harris Boats, which are contained within the Brunswick Boat Group Division of Brunswick Corporation. Brunswick's global headquarters is in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2016, it had sales of US$4.5 billion with free cash flow of $234 million.
Brunswick was founded by John Moses Brunswick who came to the United States from Switzerland at the age of 15. The J. M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company opened for business on September 15, 1845, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally J. M. Brunswick intended his company to be mainly in the business of making carriages, but soon after opening his machine shop, he became fascinated with billiards and decided that making billiard tables would be more lucrative, as the better tables then in use in the United States were imported from England. Brunswick billiard tables were a commercial success, and the business expanded and opened up the first of what would become many branch offices in Chicago, Illinois in 1848. It was later renamed J. M. Brunswick & Brother by 1871, after a family member came on board, and the company's rather hyperbolic slogan at this time was: "The oldest and most extensive billiard table manufacturers in the United States".
In 1874, the Brunswick company merged with competitor Great Western Billiard Manufactory owned by Julius Balke to become the J. M. Brunswick & Balke Company. It was incorporated in 1879 with a capital stock of $275,000, the same year it merged with another competitor, H. W. Collender Company of New York City (founded by Hugh W. Collender), to acquire Collender's patented billiard cushions. In 1884, the partners formed the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company (or B.B.C. Company for short) with capital of $1.5 million.
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