{"id":2720,"date":"2008-11-24T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2008-11-24T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T21:08:56","slug":"american-ramp-co-buying-up-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"American Ramp Co. Buying Up Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/0015.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/0015.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=666,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/0015-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0015\" \/><\/a>Joplin, Missouri based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrampcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Ramp Co.<\/a><\/strong>, makers of mostly steel, wood, and composite skateboard ramps is busily consolidating the pre-fab skateboard park manufacturing business, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/dailybusiness\/local_story_329120333.html?keyword=secondarystory\" target=\"_blank\">Joplin Globe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About four months ago, American Ramp acquired <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrampcompany.com\/SoloUSA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solo Ramps<\/a><\/strong>, a Canadian company that specializes in prefabricated concrete ramps. . . ARC also recently acquired a competing business, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sk8parks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sk8parks International<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, there is a huge market out there for funky, pre-fab parks. &#8220;Last year, the company built about 130 parks and made almost $12 million. It employs about 80 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/dailybusiness\/local_story_329120333.html?keyword=secondarystory\" target=\"_blank\">Joplin Globe<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joplin, Missouri based American Ramp Co., makers of mostly steel, wood, and composite skateboard ramps is busily consolidating the pre-fab skateboard park manufacturing business, according to a story in the Joplin Globe. About four months ago, American Ramp acquired Solo Ramps, a Canadian company that specializes in prefabricated concrete ramps. . . ARC also recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}