When Ron Bonner sold UGP the future and direction of the company wasn't too certain. Did the new owners want to support BMX any longer? It certainly looks that way. A huge help was hiring
Chad de Groot as their TM (among other things) and he has helped keep the following guys on board:
Adam Baker, Adam Banton, Catfish (he sure does get the coverage!), Brian Vowell, Dave Brumlow, Dave Freimuth, John Jennings, Karl Poynter, Kip Williamson, Brian Kachinski, Dan Sieg, Aaron Behnke, James Foster, Alessandro Tisoni, Quinn Semling, Tom Haugen, Mark Mulville, Tony Malouf, Pierre Hinze and
Dominki Chatsakos. What other clothing brand can claim a team this big?
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What other clothing brand can claim a couple of Olympic racers that went to Beijing such as
Kyle Bennett and
Mike Day? Add
Matt Pohlkamp to that group and you can imagine that Chad has his hands full keeping everyone happy and dressed well.
UGP are not afraid to hire some artists to do a complete line of clothes either. Shoks1 is responsible for the Flight, Revolution, Walker and Tank shirt for instance and if you haven't been to the
UGP site recently, make sure to check out all their new lines. In the clothing business you have to have new designs out a couple of times a year and the folks at Underground Products are working hard to finish everything up before the next trade show comes up.
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