Manufacturers in the News...

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

Dynasty Spas expansion to add 75 more to payroll

http://dpa.xtn.net/dynamic/News/Story/154950

[Jacuzzi Jim]

4th largest manufacturer of spas in the world??  Interesting.  Watkins your number 3 position might be in jeopardy!    

[hottubdan]

4th largest manufacturer of spas in the world??  Interesting.  Watkins your number 3 position might be in jeopardy!    

"The new positions will raise the company's employment number to 250, "

Something does not compute.

However, it is good news for Athens, TN.

Who did they buy out?

[East_TX_Spa]

4th largest manufacturer of spas in the world??  Interesting.  Watkins your number 3 position might be in jeopardy!    

I did a quick check with the U>S chamber of manufactureing, and you may be right....

#1 HotSpring
#2 Limelight
#3 Tiger River
#4 Dynasty
#5 Caldera

After that, it really doesn't matter much.....

I'm still alive, just working really, really hard.  Beeeen drinking alot, working ourt, fixin' up website, and ergetting ready to expand shorwooom.  Ya'll be ogood and happy Easters.

Termiioanotr

[Vanguard]

You know, they lost South Central Pool Supply and Superior Pool Products to Tatum a year or two ago.  I wonder how many they laid off when that happened.  Now, South Central and Superior have gone back to Dynasty.  I wonder if that is why they are having to add some work force.  

I spoke with the person who was instrumental in both the change to Tatum and the change back.  He told me they had contacted the two top manufacturers out there, but were turned down.  That's when they went back to Dynasty.

I doubt they are the number 4 manufacturer out there, but who knows.  As we all know, the numbers are so closely held that we can't know for sure.

[Shaamus]

#4 doesn't surprise me.  They build quite a few spas and do a number of private labels.

[hottubdan]

#4 doesn't surprise me.  They build quite a few spas and do a number of private labels.

#4 while ramping up to 250 employees?  How small an industry are we anyway???

[Shaamus]

#4 while ramping up to 250 employees?  How small an industry are we anyway???

I'm assuming you're kidding.  This may be a "wide" industry with a bunch of little players, but the spa industry isn't huge.  I think the best year we had was about four years ago when money was easy to come by and we only did 400,000 units.

[Chris_H]

Let me take a stab at the top 3...

Watkins (Hotspring, Caldera, and their aux lines)
Jacuzzi (Sundance and Jacuzzi)
Cal?

Tell me if I'm right.  I'm sure someone knows.

[hottubdan]

I'm assuming you're kidding.  This may be a "wide" industry with a bunch of little players, but the spa industry isn't huge.  I think the best year we had was about four years ago when money was easy to come by and we only did 400,000 units.

Granted the industry isn't huge.  But 250 employees for the alleged 4th largest manufacturer sounds pretty darn small to me.  That is management, manufacturing, marketing, sales, the janitor, the entire company.

[Eco_Spas]

So basically this artical is saying that Dynasty bought Diamante? Cause Diamante is the only manufacturer left in Ontario, Calif.

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

I thought it was basically saying they had 75 job openings.

[Eco_Spas]

Yeah and in the forth paragraph it says they purchased a manufacturer in ontario,calif. and are starting a new line, which was Diamante right?

[Tom]

Let me take a stab at the top 3...

Watkins (Hotspring, Caldera, and their aux lines)
Jacuzzi (Sundance and Jacuzzi)
Cal?

Tell me if I'm right.  I'm sure someone knows.

A report from 2007 gave the top 10 (in alphabetical order) as

Arctic Spas
CalSpas      
Coleman/Maax Spas
Dimension 1 Spas
Gulf Coast
Infinity/Keys       
Jacuzzi/Sundance      
Leisure Bay/Dreammaker
Master Spas
Watkins/Caldera            

Lots of changes since then.

[Spatech_tuo]

A report from 2007 gave the top 10 (in alphabetical order) as

Arctic Spas
CalSpas      
Coleman/Maax Spas
Dimension 1 Spas
Gulf Coast
Infinity/Keys
Jacuzzi/Sundance      
Leisure Bay/Dreammaker
Master Spas
Watkins/Caldera            

Lots of changes since then.

I'm surprised Marquis and Artesian didn't sneak in there over Leisure Bay and even D1. I'd have guessed Marquis was at the Arctic production level. Who knows where these guesstimates come from?

I've decided that I'm going to buy one of the defunct spa makers and rename it Aardvark Spas so I can be first alphabetically.