Johnson Outdoors Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets seasonal outdoor recreation products used primarily for fishing, diving, paddling, hiking, and camping. The company’s Marine Electronics segment offers battery powered fishing motors for trolling or primary propulsion; sonar and GPS equipment for fish finding and navigation; downriggers for controlled-depth fishing; and lake charts. Its Outdoor Equipment segment provides consumer tents, sleeping bags, camping furniture, and other recreational camping products; commercial tents, such as party tents and accessories, including lighting systems, interior lining options, and mounting brackets; heavy-duty tents and lightweight backpacking tents for the military comprising modular general purpose tents, rapid deployment shelters, and various lightweight one and two person tents; and military tent accessories, such as fabric floors and insulated thermal liners, as well as field compasses and digital instruments, and other performance measurement instruments. It also acts as a subcontract manufacturer for other providers of military tents. This segment primarily serves camping and backpacking specialty stores, sporting goods stores, and catalog and mail order houses. The company’s Watercraft segment offers canoes, kayaks, accessories, paddles, and personal flotation devices. Its Diving segment provides underwater diving and snorkeling equipment, including regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers and gauges, wetsuits, masks, fins, snorkels, and accessories for divers. This segment also offers diving gear to dive training centers, aquariums, resorts, and armed forces; and services to divers, such as regular maintenance, product repair, diving education, and travel programs. The company operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Basin. Johnson Outdoors Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.

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