Prince Company History
Prince History
Prince History: The History of the Revolution
Prince from its time as a manufacturer of tennis ball machines From the beginning, Prince Sports Group Company quickly became a professional sports equipment manufacturer. With his famous leadership in technological innovation, Prince launched a revolution in tennis by introducing the "OVERSIZE" and "LONGBODY" tennis rackets.
The launch of the TRIPLE THREATTM series of rackets in 1999 continued Prince's tradition of success. The TT series of rackets, with its revolutionary new fully weighted parallel system, the perfect stability and balance provided by the TT 3x power tennis racket, is the first time in tennis. In Prince's series of products, including tennis, squash, badminton, tennis strings, handgrip leather, serving machines, stringing machines, clothing and tennis shoes, Prince's leadership position continues to be supported and expanded.
While Prince expanded its position as a leading sports equipment manufacturing company, Prince expanded its scope to include the introduction of "Prince Health Shoes and Apparel" in 1999 and promoted and Comfort was created in clothes, and Prince's skills were extended beyond the tennis court and enabled to serve all aspects of physical health and mental well-being.
Robert McClure, the inventor of the ball throwing machine, established Prince Company in PRINCETON N.J. in 1970. In 1971, Howard Head, the owner of Head Ski Company, came to Prince Company to purchase a tee machine. As a tennis player, he immediately took an interest in Prince and soon became the owner of Prince Investment. In 1976 he invented the "big face" racquet, which changed tennis forever.
In June 1982, Chesebrough-Poud’s Inc. purchased Prince Corporation, and sales of Prince products continued to increase.
In 1990, Prince joined BENETTON, SPORTSYSTEM and significantly advanced its capabilities. Today competing in the world market, as part of a global sports system, Prince collaborates with other sister companies to sell technology, product know-how and strategy.
Since its inception, Pruns has maintained brand awareness through close ties with many talented athletes, including Juan Carlos Ferrero, Jennifer Capriati, Patrick Ratter and Martina Navratilova. Their success has greatly stimulated consumers' interest in the Pruns brand and promoted people's love for tennis.
Today, Pruns plays an important role in the world of tennis, coordinating the development of hosting and sponsoring tournaments, maintaining close ties with local tennis projects in the country, and actively creating opportunities for the new generation of stars.
The myth of Pruns will continue. In May 2003, the Pruns brand was repurchased and returned to the United States. A new chapter has begun, and the glorious history will continue... Please read on and get to know the "new generation" of Pruns.
Prince historical process
In 1970, Bob McClure invented the prototype of Prince in his garage. Prince was also the first tennis ball machine used in home tennis courts. Since then, Prince tennis has been manufactured The industry was also born.
1971-1975
Although the tennis game career did not improve, soon after Howard Head was introduced to the Prince Company for tennis production, he owned In 1976, due to the shortcomings of the small sweet spot of previous tennis rackets, Howard Head tried the characteristics of various rackets and invented the first prince patented super-large racket. Surface racket, this Prince brand classic triggered a revolution in tennis
In 1977, the Prince Graphite racket became the standard model for all Graphite rackets
1979
Prince Pro's Prince Pro became the best-selling aluminum racket in the world
In 1982, Prince Production (Co., Ltd.) was acquired by Chesebrough-Ponds (Co., Ltd.)
1985
The Prince Spectrum Comp racket combines Graphite, fiberglass, and Fiber B technology, and it immediately became a best-seller in specialty stores around the world
In 1987
Prince management and Rentwood Associtaes, a private investment company based in Los Angeles, worked together to acquire Prince.
In 1987, Pat Cash won the Wimbledon Open using a Prince Magnesium Pro tennis racket
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1988
Prince acquires Ektelon, a global leader in the racquetball industry.
1989
Prince's Constant Taper System (CTS) technology has played a revolutionary role in the performance of rackets
In 1989, Zhang Depei, who used Prince's original Graphite racket, won the French Open
Benetton Group in 1990 SpA acquires Prince Corporation
In 1995 Prince Corporation developed the extended technology and Precision Michael Chang extended racket,
which became the number one selling racket in the world
1996
After switching to the Prince Precision Micheal Chang extended racket, Chang became the world's second-ranked tennis player
Patrick Rafter using the Prince Precision Response racket in 1997 Win the U.S. Open
1998
Win two consecutive U.S. Open titles for Patrick Rafter using the Prince Precision Response tennis racquet
And more Novotna, who used the Prince Thunderlite tennis racket, won the Wimbledon Open
In 1999, Prince developed the Triple Threat racket series, which provided a revolutionary new weight balancing system for the tennis world
2001
Prince unveils the Tungsten racket in the Triple Threat 2001 series
2001
Capriati in Australia Won the Open and French Open using standing racket Triple Threat Rebel.
In 2002, Prince Company developed the super-powerful Mroe Performance tennis series
In 2002
Capriati uses the Triple Threat Rebel
>Won the Australian Open for the second time
2003
Prince’s management teamed up with Lincolnshire Management (Ltd.), a New York-based private investment firm,
Worked together to acquire the Prince and Ektelon brands
In 2003
Prince launched the "Rule the court" campaign, and "Rule the court" became the new slogan of Prince .
In 2003
Ferrero used the Prince Experimental tennis racket to win the French Open and became the world's number one tennis player
This racket is The upcoming Prince NXG Graphite model racket;
The most shining star using the Prince racket is the Russian talented player Maria Sharapova
At the AIG Japan Open Won her first tour title
2004
Please continue to pay attention to Prince's "new generation" tennis players