Originally Posted by ZIPPY
Edelbrock, Crane and Comp, and others are all IOP now (great big ugly private equity firm).

https://www.edelblog.com/general/ed...-iop-acquires-the-comp-performance-group

Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), a private equity firm that invested in Edelbrock LLC back in 2010, has acquired the COMP Performance Group that includes several leading automotive brands such as COMP Cams, TCI Automotive, FAST (Fuel Air Spark Technology), Racing Head Service (RHS), ZEX Nitrous Oxide, Inglese Induction Systems, Lunati and Crane Cams.



Ugly means - the smart people are let go and tech support becomes a joke, production on a lot of it goes to China where it's been counterfeited for years anyway, quality goes in the toilet, the niche items people have relied on that maybe weren't the biggest sellers go bye-bye.

R&D? Reinvestment? Screw that. We need to be get a return on our investment. And when people stop buying our crap, we'll just sell it off.

If the results don't match the theory, change the theory.