I want to go back in time just a few months, to October and our annual NASGW Expo and Annual Meeting in Orlando. Every year we kick off our show with an annual banquet and awards show. For those of you in attendance, you’ll remember I talked rather candidly about the tough year for shooting sports distribution in 2019.
The loss of multiple distributors last year was a hard blow to the supply channel, to manufacturers, and of course, to retailers who had built solid partnerships with those distributors over the years. Many were left wondering if the rest of the distribution channel would be able to “pick up the slack.” But of course, as they always seem to do, distributors stepped up, and continue to step up big time.
Seriously though, who could ever have predicted we’d put that all behind us only to face an even greater test in 2020? |
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