Stratton loses Burton US open to Vail

[dropKickMurphy]

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[AdironRider]

Bout time.

[Nick]

This is pretty big news right? Burton leaving their home state to go for the bigger, glitzier out west mountain? What are the benefits for switching to CO?

More info from the news: http://business-news.thestreet.com/d...rs-vermont-0/1

[drjeff]

Guess I'll be able to get some pics of the US Open then, since the week that it will be in Vail is the week that I just booked to head out there last week

[steamboat1]

They also moved production out of VT. a couple of years ago..

http://www.theskichannel.com/news/20...ut-of-vermont/

[AdironRider]

Burton really doesnt do shit in Vermont these days. I think they have a small office there still, but pretty much everything has been shipped off shore or elsewhere.

Burton is a worldwide company these days, I wouldnt put up with the bullshit of VT for as long as they did in the first place (in a business sense).

[deadheadskier]

Burton really doesnt do shit in Vermont these days. I think they have a small office there still, but pretty much everything has been shipped off shore or elsewhere.

Burton is a worldwide company these days, I wouldnt put up with the bullshit of VT for as long as they did in the first place (in a business sense).

Not a small office. Still a few hundred employees. That's a significantly large employer in the State of Vermont.

[drjeff]

Burton really doesnt do shit in Vermont these days. I think they have a small office there still, but pretty much everything has been shipped off shore or elsewhere.

Burton is a worldwide company these days, I wouldnt put up with the bullshit of VT for as long as they did in the first place (in a business sense).

Not a small office. Still a few hundred employees. That's a significantly large employer in the State of Vermont.

Corporate HQ is in Burlington, and also some of their R&D is based their too (Mainly for their team sponsored athletes). I know that a couple of weeks ago I played in the Kelly Clark Foundation Golf Tourney at Haystack Golf Course, and when Kelly was walking around the dinner tables after to thank all the participants personally, she mentioned to one of my playing partners, who she grew up with in the Mount Snow area, that she was off the next morning to Burlington to meet with the Burton corporate folks, before flying out to Los Angeles to go to the ESPY's and then a couple of weeks off out in Mammoth where she now lives and trains before getting ready to fly off to New Zeland for some snow training. I'm guessing based on that press release that a side trip to Vail got added to her schedule too Then again she does draw quite a nice paycheck from Burton, so i'm sure she was more than happy to attend the announcement!

[AdironRider]

Not a small office. Still a few hundred employees. That's a significantly large employer in the State of Vermont.

Interesting. Word out here when the manufacturing was shipped out was that it was well below that number.

But the notion that they are a "vermont" company and therefor should hold the US Open there just doesnt apply IMO given their size and scope. I'd be surprised if the majority of their customers even know they are from VT in the first place.

[ADKme]

Guess I'll be able to get some pics of the US Open then, since the week that it will be in Vail is the week that I just booked to head out there last week

I too just booked flights for that week in Colorado and was planning on being in Vail. Do I want to be around that event or will it clog up the slopes and town with teenage riff raff? Southwest is easy to switch flights.