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Article: K2 acquiring Rawlings, moving to Carlsbad.
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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CARLSBAD -- "Sports City" has beckoned K2 Inc., a diversified sporting goods maker that is pushing to put even more variety into its product line.
Management at the $600 million, publicly traded company sees plenty of reasons to uproot its headquarters from Los Angeles and move it to Carlsbad this month. K2 will share a building with laser-maker Melles Griot near the entrance to McClellan Palomar Airport.
There K2 plans to continue a growth push.
"I think we can get much bigger than a billion" dollars in annual sales, said K2 Chairman Richard Heckmann, who has been the company's chief executive since October.
Step one in the growth ...