Evenflo
Evenflo is probably one of the best known stroller brands on the market, selling in a variety of "mass market" channels like Walmart, Target and online on Amazon.
The company is probably most famous for its baby bottles, as that is how the company was founded in 1920 as the Pyramid Rubber Specialty Company in Ravenna, Ohio. Pyramid made rubber baby bottle nipples (among other rubber items like surgical supplies), as it was located near the "rubber belt" in nearby Akron, Ohio.
Also nearby were the major glass manufacturers in Pittsburgh (including Owens-Illinois Glass Co), which enabled Pyramid to marry it its rubber nipples with glass bottles to become one of the first mass-marketed baby bottles. The name "Evenflo" came from a unique twin air valve in the nipple that promoted liquid flow.
Evenflo rode the post-World War II baby boom to bigger sales and soon expanded into other juvenile products, including baby gates, car seats and eventually strollers. After changing hands among private equity owners several times in the early 2000's, Evenflo was sold in 2014 to Goodbaby International.
Goodbaby itself started in Kunshan, China in 1989 as a manufacturer of baby strollers, at a time when many companies (like Evenflo) off-shored their production. Goodbaby also acquired German stroller brand Cybex shortly before buying Evenflo. According to Forbes, Goodbaby has a complex of 11 factories that churn out over 10,000 strollers day under 15 different brand names (Goodbaby sells both its own strollers under Evenflo and Cybex as well as contracting out manufacturing for other brands).[1]
Today Goodbaby sells strollers under the brand names Evenflo (mass market), Cybex (specialty stores, chains) and gB/Urbini.
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