RUPP CORPORATION

MICKEY RUPP (OWNER)

• Successful entrepreneur
• '64-'65 raced stock cars
• '70 director of the international snowmobile industry association
• Born January 17, 1936

1950'S

• Founded by Mickey Rupp
• Mansfield Ohio
• 3,000sqft building
• 8 employees
• Started with Go-Karts

1960'S

• Started Mini Bike production
• Made 1,000 Mini Bikes
• By '69 employed over 400 people
• 180,000sqft building

1970

• Mini Bikes, Atv's, Go Karts, snowmobiles
• Sales Topped 30 million
• Produced 35,000 snowmobiles
• Doubled employees
• research, administration, and styling buildings

1972

• Very poor winter
• Snowmobile sales declined
• Profit dwindled
• The company lost money

1973

• Forced to sell
• Ended Tohatsu partnership
• Started Kohler partnership

1974-1975

• Introduced liquid cooled engines
• Public thought they were making a comeback
• Continued finantial difficulties

1977

• Filed for bankruptcy
• Asked for help from Arctic Cat
• Snowmobile production cut in half

1978

THESIS

• Rupp industries was a leader in the offroad
• industry because he showed how much profit
• one could make with a successful company
• and set the standards for the off-road companies
• producing today.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.oldrupps.com/RuppHistory/RuppHistory.html
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupp_Industries
• http://archive.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20130209/BUSINESS/302090021...