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Korda bought Mainline? (91 posts / 16,907 views)
BigDave139
Posts: 62
Post #1 25 Jan 2022 06:40
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Anyone else heard this rumour?
kells kells
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Post #2 25 Jan 2022 07:29
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I think that rumour is always going to be flying about due to there connection. Korda are starting to make in roads into other areas of the buisness. So why not bait.Time will tell I suppose.
darkoL darkoL
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Post #3 25 Jan 2022 07:45
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Gonna be a lot of Munga on the shelfs if it is true
Instructor Instructor
Posts: 68
Post #4 25 Jan 2022 08:10
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i think korda distribute Mainline now, hence people think they have bought them ?
wac
Posts: 624
Post #5 25 Jan 2022 09:06
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Kev and Steve still listed as company owners on Gov companies website.
Golden-Paws Golden-Paws
Posts: 251
Post #6 25 Jan 2022 17:09
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Korda have tie ups with the likes of Daiwa, Trakker and Jag and Mainline is their "preferred" bait Company.
devil_boy
Posts: 470
Post #7 25 Jan 2022 17:43
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Korda will distribute all of Mainlines products from February 1st , I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing for the tackle shops looking at how much Korda ask them to stock of their tackle.
AideyKaye
Posts: 1,010
Post #8 25 Jan 2022 18:03
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Essentially creating a monopoly of sorts.

Give it another ten years, will be interesting to see if people still have the same views regarding their movements.
bluebeat13
Posts: 2,168
Post #9 25 Jan 2022 18:26
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Is one view. Another one is maybe Kev and Steve want to step back from the business side and do the more enjoyable bits.

Not much different from the link up with Sticky and Thinking Anglers but because DF is involved people start getting emotional.

It makes sense to me. And I'm not a sure you can call one big tackle company distributing one big bait company's products a monopoly. In fact you can't, it's not a monopoly.
braders1978 braders1978
Posts: 18,195
Post #10 25 Jan 2022 19:13
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Sticky and TA have got rid of most of their consultants haven't they
Gashman Gashman
Posts: 562
Post #11 25 Jan 2022 19:40
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In reply to Post #10
Both lost a few to other companies recently
braders1978 braders1978
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Post #12 25 Jan 2022 20:35
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I believe they finished them,to order sticky baits and TA gear for a shop you have to send your order via email now.They used to have reps who shops could deal with but not now
bluebeat13
Posts: 2,168
Post #13 25 Jan 2022 21:35
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No idea who whores out to who these days to be honest, stopped watching the company promo carp fishing videos a while back. I heard the TA bloke on a podcast talking about how they teamed up with Sticky for warehousing and distribution.

Again, it makes sense business wise to lose the old fashioned shop to shop consultant sales. Pay your faces to go fishing, film it, push it all over the internet and the customers will tell the shops what they want.
carpstar40 carpstar40
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Post #14 26 Jan 2022 08:06
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Another one is maybe Kev and Steve want to step back from the business side and do the more enjoyable bits

About 10 or so years ago bumped into them wandering about the Zwolle show on the Saturday around midday they had both came over to work the stand no other bods with them, I was helping on another stand with a mate and we had gone to get a bite to eat, my mate who has known them for Donkeys years said to them "what are you pair doing wandering about the show" "both come for the Jolly" was their response, "what just you pair" said my mate "yeah just for the crack" Kev replied
We could see their stand through the big door in the next hall there was no one tending to it, so my mate said "if your wandering about the halls who's tending to the stand" their response was and I quote... "**** it they don't want to buy our bait when they can buy the euro **** at a few euros a kilo it's been crap" my mate then said "if your stand hasn't got anyone minding it ain't you bothered they will be nicking your bait".
Steve's response was "save us loading it back onto the lorry and take it back with us they want it they can have it".

We stood talking for about fifteen minutes and when we left them they were heading into the next hall where they would have no chance of seeing their stand, I would say laid back more than stepped back I got the feeling money is of no concern.
kells kells
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Post #15 26 Jan 2022 09:03
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Dont think I've ever seen a Mainline stand at a show only what various companys have had on there's.. I think there association with Korda is all they need to keep the money rolling in..
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