For us at Thule Group, everything is about making it easy to live an active life. Our motto, "Active Life, Simplified." captures the ambition of how we develop products so that those who buy them can live an active life a little easier, how we as employees want to live our own lives and what feel we want our customers to have when they do business with us.
We are global market leaders in a number of product categories, including roof racks, roof boxes and bike racks that you use on the car, camera bags as well as multisport- and bicycle trailers. We are also growing rapidly in product categories like sports and suitcases and jogging strollers. We are a global company. Thule Group's products are found in all corners of the world - in distant beaches of Australia, on Boston's streets, on bicycle routes high in the Andes and in the Alps ski resorts.
We are an international group of passionate employees who focus on developing safe, easy-to-use and stylish solutions for active families and outdoor enthusiasts. We help them bring what they care most about when they are living an active life.
We offer products for small items that you always carry with you, such as smartphone shells, as well as for heavier things you transport longer distances using the car, such as bike carrier. In short, we offer solutions to take care of everything you care about and need when living an active life.
Our products are sold in 140 markets. We are just over 2 200 people working for Thule Group at nine production facilities and more than 35 sales outlets worldwide. Net sales amounted to SEK 5.9 billion in 2017.
Thule Group's head office is located in Malmö, south Sweden.
The Evenflo Story
For nearly a century, Evenflo has been a worldwide leader in the development of innovative infant care and juvenile products:
We trace our roots back to the 1920 founding of the Pyramid Rubber Company in Ravenna, Ohio. Initially, the company was a manufacturer of products related to baby feeding. In 1995, Evenflo Company, Inc. was created through the merger of Evenflo Juvenile Products and Evenflo Juvenile Furniture Company (formerly known as Questor Juvenile Furniture Company).
From 1996 until 2014, Evenflo Company, Inc. was owned by several different private equity firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Spalding, Gerry Baby Products Company (a division of Huffy Corporation), Harvest Partners, and Weston Presidio.
In 2012, both our bottle feeding and breastfeeding product categories were sold to allow increased focus on larger juvenile products such as car seats, strollers, high chairs, play yards and activity products.
Today
Evenflo Company, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goodbaby International Holdings Limited. Goodbaby International is a durable juvenile products company that is listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1086:HK). The Group designs, researches and develops, manufactures, markets and sells strollers, children’s car seats, cribs, bicycles and tricycles and other durable juvenile products.
Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, the Evenflo (and ExerSaucer) Brand continues to operate within the Americas region of Goodbaby International. We strive to not only build our Brands’ success, we also strive to advocate for all Brands in the Goodbaby International family. We are the gateway for their success in the US, just as they act as our catalyst for global expansion.