Benchmade Knife Company Acquires Lone Wolf Knives
Acquisition Brings Breadth and Variety to Benchmade's Portfolio of Brands

October 5, 2010, OREGON CITY, Ore.-Benchmade Knife Company is pleased to announce their acquisition of Wilsonville, Ore.-based Lone Wolf Knives, Inc. The addition of Lone Wolf Knives to the Benchmade portfolio will allow the company to compete at the heart of the sports cutlery market with a purpose driven product line influenced by the outdoors.

"The acquisition of Lone Wolf Knives will be a great addition to the Benchmade family of brands," says Les de Asis, Founder and CEO of Benchmade Knife Company. "Those familiar with Lone Wolf Knives appreciate the extremely strong connection the brand and product has with the outdoors."

New Lone Wolf Knives product will be developed in the coming months and will be launched at the NSSF SHOT Show, January 18th-21st at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Over the past several years, Benchmade has been building a stable of quality brands. In addition to the flagship Benchmade Knife Company product, the company also has exclusive licensing agreements to design, manufacture and market Harley-Davidson® Knives and HK® Knives. Despite the recent turbulent economy, Benchmade has been able to post several years of consecutive double-digit growth and recently added 20,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space to their manufacturing headquarters in Oregon City, Ore.

"We've been blessed to have talented employees and loyal customers and dealers that have helped us grow despite the economy" said de Asis. "We are very excited about the opportunities that will emerge as a result of our acquisition of Lone Wolf Knives."

For more information on the Benchmade portfolio of brands, visit www.benchmade.com

Now I don't feel bad about buying Lone Wolf. Very interesting turn of events.

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...New Lone Wolf Knives product will be developed in the coming months...

Sounds great to me

Of course, just as long as Lone Wolf will still be producing their current product line, a few of which are on my must-have list, such as their wonderful D/As - a design concept that (AFAIK) is seriously lacking in BM's product line... .

With even more luck, perhaps BM can help bring the prices down a bit by streamlining production and so on; this is one of the main reasons why I still haven't purchased on of their D/As...

I'm very glad to hear of this aquisition. Lone Wolf along with Benchmade is my "go to" knife brand. They are the only 2 brands I have sitting on my desk and in my pocket.
Yes, Benchmade you are truly blessed, I firmly believe the reason for this is because of your charitable contributions. For those of you interested, here is a link to those they support;
http://www.benchmade.com/heroes/index.aspx

Vince G.

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I don't know about charitable contributions but I know they both make a GREAT knife.Congrats to all.

Sounds good to me, congrats Benchmade.

Congratulations BM! I can't wait to see what the future will hold.

That's awesome. I look forward to trying one out. Come to think of it, I don't have a Harley branded knife yet either.

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I don't have a Harley branded knife yet either.

Allow me to fix that for you .......

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Originally posted by kc2hse:
Now I don't feel bad about buying Lone Wolf. Very interesting turn of events.

how could you ever feel bad about buying lone wolf?