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Bombardier Recreational Products
Public company
Traded as DOO
Industry Recreational Vehicles
Founded 1942
Founder Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Headquarters Valcourt, Quebec, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
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 Increase 3.829  CAD billion (2015)
Decrease 0.265  CAD billion (2015)
Decrease 0.052  CAD billion (2015)
Number of employees
7,600 (2015)
Divisions Canada, United States, Mexico, Finland and Austria.
Website www.brp.com

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, 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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