{"id":3252,"date":"2009-03-11T08:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:12:37","slug":"boating-brunswick-ceo-sees-reduction-in-us-power-boat-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Boating &#8211; Brunswick CEO Sees Reduction In US Power Boat Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of recreational power boats in the U.S. may decline by more than 20% this year, as consumers continue to avoid purchases of luxury items in a weak economy, Brunswick Corp. (BC) Chief Executive Dustan McCoy said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy said power boat sales volume may fall below 150,000 units from 196,000 boats in 2008. Brunswick, the world&#8217;s largest producer of recreational boats, has been aggressively paring back its production in response to the falling demand.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Forest, Ill.-based company has eliminated seven boat brands&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/djf500\/200903101738DOWJONESDJONLINE000740_FORTUNE5.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of recreational power boats in the U.S. may decline by more than 20% this year, as consumers continue to avoid purchases of luxury items in a weak economy, Brunswick Corp. (BC) Chief Executive Dustan McCoy said Tuesday. McCoy said power boat sales volume may fall below 150,000 units from 196,000 boats in 2008. Brunswick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-new-boating-products-tests","category-powerboat","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}