Skidoo snowmobiles
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | : DOO |
| Industry | Recreational Vehicles |
| Founded | 1942 |
| Founder | Joseph-Armand Bombardier |
| Headquarters | Valcourt, Quebec, Canada |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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José Boisjoli, President and CEO; Laurent Beaudoin, Chairman of the Board |
| Products | Ski-Doo, Can-Am (ATV & Spyder Roadster), (PWC), Lynx, Evinrude Outboard Motors, and Rotax |
| Services | Recreational Vehicle service |
| Revenue |
 3.829 CAD billion (2015)
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 0.265 CAD billion (2015)
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0.052 CAD billion (2015)
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Number of employees
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7,600 (2015) |
| Divisions | Canada, United States, Mexico, Finland and Austria. |
| Website | www |
Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is a Canadian company making various vehicles. Once part of Bombardier Inc., it was founded in 1942 as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (Bombardier Snow Car Limited) by Joseph-Armand Bombardier at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.
In 2003, Bombardier Inc. sold its Recreational Products Division to a group of investors: Bain Capital (50%), the Bombardier family (35%), and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (15%).
The newly formed company, named Bombardier Recreational Products, included all the activities started 60 years earlier by its founder. As of October 6, 2009[update], it had about 5,500 employees working; its revenues in 2007 are above US$2.5 billion. BRP has manufacturing facilities in five countries: Canada, the United States (Wisconsin, Illinois, North Carolina), Mexico, Finland, and Austria. The company’s products are sold in more than 80 countries, 18 of which have their own direct-sales network.
BRP has a long legacy of innovation and has multiple brands: Ski-Doo (snowmobiles), Can-Am motorcycles (ATVs and Spyder Roadsters), (personal water craft and SportBoats), Lynx (snowmobile), Evinrude Outboard Motors, and Rotax. The Ski-Doo personal snowmobile brand is so iconic, especially in Canada, that it was listed in 17th place on the CBC's The Greatest Canadian Invention list in 2007.
Before the start of the company's development of track vehicles, Joseph-Armand Bombardier experimented with propeller-driven snow vehicles (similar to Russian aerosanis). His work with snowplane designs can be traced to before 1920. He quickly abandoned his efforts to develop a snowplane and turned his inventive skills to tracked vehicles.
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