The Tennis Times » prince http://thetennistimes.com Your Look Inside The World Of Tennis From a Players Perspective Fri, 25 May 2012 12:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Prince EXO3 Warrior DB Team 100 Racquet Review http://thetennistimes.com/prince-exo3-warrior-db-team-100-racquet-review/ http://thetennistimes.com/prince-exo3-warrior-db-team-100-racquet-review/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 13:39:51 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=8186 Prince EXO3 Warrior DB Team 100 Racquet Review.


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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/prince-synthetic-gut-duraflex-string/feed/ 0 Prince File for Bankruptcy in the USA http://thetennistimes.com/prince-file-for-bankruptcy-in-the-usa/ http://thetennistimes.com/prince-file-for-bankruptcy-in-the-usa/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 13:31:45 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=7920

Prince Sports Inc has filed for bankruptcy protection in the USA for around $100 million. This is a big hit for Prince and they blamed declining demand and increased competition over the past five years.

Prince, the exclusive licensee of the All England Club for Wimbledon-branded rackets, racket bags and accessories, was bought in 2007 by Providence, Rhode Island-based buyout fund Nautic Partners LLC.

Prince today said its subsidiaries outside the U.S., including those based in Europe, Taiwan and China, are not subject to the proceedings and “are expected to operate in ordinary course.”

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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/prince-launch-their-2011-campaign/feed/ 0 Prince Wimbledon Tennis Ball Guess Contest http://thetennistimes.com/prince-wimbledon-tennis-ball-guess-contest/ http://thetennistimes.com/prince-wimbledon-tennis-ball-guess-contest/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:06:36 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1819 During Wimbledon this year Prince has a little contest going on that seems to be getting a bit of hype. Prince has got a container and filled it with tennis balls and all you have to do is guess how many tennis balls are in the container.

If you head to the Prince site here you can enter until the 5th July, but unfortunately this competition is only for USA citizens. This is the internet age Prince, get with it, anyone anywhere should be able to enter!

Prize = Autographed Prince racquet signed by Maria Sharapova. Approximate Retail Value of prize is $300.

If you want to see the container for yourself then you need to head to the HSBC Wimbledon in Rockefeller Center (June 22 – June 26).

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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/prince-wimbledon-tennis-ball-guess-contest/feed/ 7 Gael Monfils and His Thoughts on the EXO3 from Prince http://thetennistimes.com/gael-monfils-and-his-thoughts-on-the-exo3-from-prince/ http://thetennistimes.com/gael-monfils-and-his-thoughts-on-the-exo3-from-prince/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:27:24 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1148 We wanted to share a great new :30 sec video featuring world #10 ranked tennis player Gael Monfils. The twenty-three year-old Frenchman recently sat down to discuss his love for the game and reasons for making the switch to the EXO3 Rebel 95 racquet – one of the models in Prince’s new EXO3 line.


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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/gael-monfils-and-his-thoughts-on-the-exo3-from-prince/feed/ 0 Prince is Growing Every Year and Is Now Second Largest in Racquet Sales http://thetennistimes.com/prince-is-growing-every-year-and-is-now-second-largest-in-racquet-sales/ http://thetennistimes.com/prince-is-growing-every-year-and-is-now-second-largest-in-racquet-sales/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:44:51 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=119 In the past three years, Prince has moved from a weak No. 3 in racket sales to a strong No. 2 behind Wilson. Sales have increased almost 60 percent, to $110 million, from about $70 million, according to Sports One Source, a sporting goods manufacturing analysis firm. As a privately held company, Prince does not disclose financial results.

A resurrection like this is rare in the world of sporting goods manufacturers, where yesterday’s big names are historical reminiscences today, experts said. Few companies that were once major players have gone into a major decline and then made a full-blown recovery. For a decade — from 1992 until the buy-back from Benneton in 2003, Prince was headed the way of brand names such as MacGregor, Spalding and AMF Voit.


How has Prince been able to turn this all around? Are they focusing more on athlete endorsements, tournament sponsorships, online strategies, product development or another method. Im curious to see what our readers think of the Prince brand and if they actually use their products.



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