Freedom Boat Club recently announced the planned opening of a 400th club location, which will be in Jupiter, Fla. Since Brunswick’s acquisition of Freedom Boat Club in 2019, the company has grown its footprint by 230 locations, including more than 40 international locations throughout Europe and Australia. “We are excited to celebrate our 400th location – a milestone achievement as ...
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Brunswick celebrates inaugural ‘All Blue Planet Month’
Brunswick Corporation recently completed its inaugural All Blue Planet Month, an initiative to increase access to water to underserved populations as part of the Company’s overall sustainability strategy. Over several weeks, 16 Freedom Boat Club locations across the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain participated in the initiative. In total, the Clubs partnered with 23 local community groups supporting ...
Read More »Freedom Boat Club acquires 350th Location
Freedom Boat Club, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), announced its 350th location, doubling of the number of locations in the Freedom network since the company was acquired by Brunswick in May 2019. Over the past three years, Freedom has added 180 new locations. The 350th location will be in Silkeborg, Denmark – Freedom’s first club location in Scandinavia. “We are ...
Read More »Brunswick grows shared access with southeast expansions
Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) announced that it will acquire a portfolio of marine assets in the Southeast United States including the greater Atlanta area to expand shared access, advance its “Boating-as-a-Service” eco-system strategy with subscription based models and fortify plans to establish a regional marine operating center that will support Freedom Boat Club and Boateka. This acquisition provides on-water infrastructure, points ...
Read More »NMMA salutes 2022 STEP Ahead honorees
To kick off Women’s History Month, NMMA congratulated Allison Lemasters of Malibu Boats, LLC, Nicole McDonald and Brenna Preisser of Brunswick Corporation, and Wendy Scholler of Mercury Marine on receiving the Manufacturing Institute’s 2022 STEP Ahead Awards. From the factory floor to the C-suite, the STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering, Production) Ahead Awards honor women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in ...
Read More »Freedom Boat Club announces 300th location
Freedom Boat Club announced its 300th location within the Freedom network. The newest location represents Freedom’s 18th location in the Boston and Cape Cod market co-owned and operated by franchisees Matt Carrick and Matt O’Connor. Additionally, with the acquisition of Fanautic Club, earlier this year , the total number of boat club locations across Brunswick now adds up to to 324 ...
Read More »Brunswick names new CHRO
Brunswick Corporation announced the appointment of Jill Wrobel as executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO) effective Dec. 8, 2021 and reporting to CEO Dave Foulkes. Wrobel joined Brunswick in December 2020 as vice president, enterprise human resources and transformation leader. In her current role, Wrobel has been responsible for leading human resources strategy across the company and ...
Read More »Freedom Boat Club celebrates success at annual conference
Freedom Boat Club held its annual franchise conference last week to celebrate another year of record growth for the business. Since Freedom joined the Brunswick family in May 2019, it has experienced unprecedented expansion now serving nearly 70,000 members across nearly 300 locations. Freedom’s total footprint now also includes Fanautic Club, the largest boat club operator in Spain, acquired in July ...
Read More »Brunswick Corp. again named to Forbes World’s Best Employers list
For the second consecutive year, Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) has been named by Forbes and Statista to the 2021 list of World’s Best Employers. Thousands of global companies were surveyed for this honor and Brunswick was ranked in the top 15% of all organizations (No. 116 of 750 organizations selected), and in the top 10 companies in the world within the Engineering ...
Read More »ELEVATE agenda gets exciting new addition
The Boating Industry ELEVATE team is excited to announce that Info-Link founder and managing director Jack Ellis is just the latest addition to an already power packed line-up comprised of some of the biggest names in the recreational boating industry. The ELEVATE Summit conference is November 8-10 at the downtown Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. Ellis, a lifelong boater, started Miami-based ...
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