Ben Pearson bows & history
Ben Pearson’s business helped bring archery equipment to a broad market through manufacturing scale. Its later ownership transfers and December 2019 manufacturing closure belong in a separate corporate chapter.
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Ben Pearson’s business helped bring archery equipment to a broad market through manufacturing scale. Its later ownership transfers and December 2019 manufacturing closure belong in a separate corporate chapter.
- Origins
- 1938 incorporation; earlier bow-making roots
- Founder / founding team
- Ben Pearson, with financial backing from Carl Haun
- Latest documented ownership
- Post-2009 ownership sequence still being reconciled
- Status
- Manufacturing ceased December 2019
Documented milestones
1938
Ben Pearson’s company formed in Pine Bluff after earlier bow-making work.
1967
Historical accounts identify the sale of Pearson’s interest to Leisure Group.
December 2019
BHP’s owner confirms manufacturing ceased in December 2019 and supplies a contemporary BowJunky report. Later asset ownership or revival is not inferred.
Model archive
- Atlas · 2016–2018
- MX3 · 2016
- Recon · 2014–2016
- RhinoX · 2014–2016
- XOut · 2016
- Marxman · 2013–2015
- MX2 · 2013–2015
- Rhino · 2014
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Sources and research limits
A dated acquisition does not establish unchanged present ownership. Unresolved details remain under research.
- Reconcile later ownership and location changes
- Any subsequent asset transfer or revival