- Parent company of leading brands including After Bite, Adventure Medical Kits, Survive Outdoors Longer continues growth strategy with most recent acquisition
- Counter Assault manufactures and markets personal-defense products
LITTLETON, N.H. (July 10, 2019) – Adventure Ready Brands, which sells a range of best-in-class branded consumer products, announces the acquisition of Bushwacker Backpack & Supply, maker of the popular Counter Assault brand of personal-defense products, including the leading bear spray and tools for law enforcement and self-defense. Based in Kalispell, Montana, the newest addition to Adventure Ready Brands' growing portfolio of outdoor and consumer products will continue to manufacture its best-in-class products in Montana.
Founded in 1973 in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Tender Corporation DBA Adventure Ready Brands has built a range of trusted brands in safety, preparedness and first aid. Adventure Ready Brands' product portfolio includes After Bite®, the leader in insect bite relief, highly-rated insect repellents Ben's® and Natrapel®, and outdoor first aid and survival product leaders Adventure Medical Kits® and Survive Outdoors Longer®. Adventure Ready Brands is based in Littleton, New Hampshire.
Adventure Ready Brands CEO Chris Heye:
“Counter Assault is a growing, profitable company like Adventure Ready Brands that fits well with our mission of protecting people and helping them enjoy the outdoors. We are thrilled to have Counter Assault's team join the Tender family. As a company rooted in American manufacturing, we intend to maintain Counter Assault's high-quality manufacturing facility in Montana.”
Bushwacker Backpack & Supply Owner Pride Johnson:
“With its national and international distribution network across outdoor, mass merchant, and food and drug channels and complimentary brand lineup, Adventure Ready Brands is an ideal partner to enable the continued growth of the Counter Assault brand. Counter Assault delivers high value to our consumer and retail partners, and we are enthusiastic for the growth opportunities available with the Adventure Ready Brands team.”
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About Adventure Ready Brands – Founded in 1973 in the heart of New Hampshire's iconic White Mountains, Adventure Ready Brands has always operated with a simple, unified goal: To help people enjoy the outdoors, no matter the condition. With innovative products from the organized-by-injury Adventure Medical Kits® to the category-dominating After Bite® insect bite treatment, Adventure Ready Brands has – and continues – to make good on that promise. adventurereadybrands.com
About Bushwacker Backpack & Supply – Bushwacker Backpack & Supply is the Kalispell, Montana-based manufacturer of Counter Assault bear spray, personal protection spray, law enforcement/military pepper spray products, and accessories. Established in 1986 in Missoula, Montana, Bushwacker Backpack & Supply Company manufactures, packages and ships pepper spray product throughout North America and around the world from its state-of-the-art facility in Kalispell. counterassault.com
