parts for my igloo cooler
brian utter
I never think of this at a convenient time, but I just went camping and
had to deal with my igloo cooler that is missing the plug, the hinges
and one of the handles. I KNOW that they have replacement parts
available, but you have to order them from the company. Does anyone
know the address? I looked for a web site, but didn't have
much luck. Retail outlets don't sell parts. I'd sure like to fix that
old cooler.
Thanks, Jamie
Alan Norris
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:53:37 -0700, brian utter <but...@csusm.edu>
wrote:
When they first came to the land of OZ down under, they used to have
the address moulded in the base, dont know about now, have,nt seen one
in years
ANLEC PTY LTD
Project Electrical Inspection and Supervision
,-._|\ Alan Norris Tel: 08 9448 7471
/ Oz \ an...@iinet.net.au Mobile:041 791 7144
\_,--._/ Perth Australia Fax: 08 9448 5014
v
Melba's Jammin'
Jamie,
Go back to the store that sells them. Check the sticker, hang tag, label,
whatever, that
has the mfgrs name on it. It should also have a location. Write to that
location or
call the company for info about where to purchase.
-Barb
In article <35340511...@csusm.edu>, brian utter <but...@csusm.edu> wrote:
>I never think of this at a convenient time, but I just went camping and
>had to deal with my igloo cooler that is missing the plug, the hinges
>and one of the handles. I KNOW that they have replacement parts
>available, but you have to order them from the company. Does anyone
>know the address? I looked for a web site, but didn't have
>much luck. Retail outlets don't sell parts. I'd sure like to fix that
>old cooler.
>
>Thanks, Jamie
--
Bob Y.
Alan Norris wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:53:37 -0700, brian utter <but...@csusm.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >I never think of this at a convenient time, but I just went camping and
> >had to deal with my igloo cooler that is missing the plug, the hinges
> >and one of the handles. I KNOW that they have replacement parts
> >available, but you have to order them from the company. Does anyone
> >know the address? I looked for a web site, but didn't have
> >much luck. Retail outlets don't sell parts. I'd sure like to fix that
> >old cooler.
> >
> >Thanks, Jamie
> >
> the address moulded in the base, dont know about now, have,nt seen one
> in years
The Igloo Corp. is/was in Houston, TX, but has been bought by Brunswick.
--
Bob Y.
Finleyja
The Academy stores in Houston carry all of the replacement parts. Perhaps
other sporting goods stores nationwide have the parts. Have you looked?
Heather Allen
>
> >I never think of this at a convenient time, but I just went camping and
> >had to deal with my igloo cooler that is missing the plug, the hinges
> >and one of the handles. I KNOW that they have replacement parts
> >available, but you have to order them from the company. Does anyone
> >know the address? I looked for a web site, but didn't have
> >much luck. Retail outlets don't sell parts. I'd sure like to fix that
> >old cooler.
> >
Well, I don't have the address anymore, but about four years ago I was in
the same situation as you.. I got the address off my cooler. It was the
Houston area. That may have changed. But after I got the prices of the
handle and the plug and one hing, it was almost thirty-five dollars, so I
opted to spend another ten and just get a new one. This one doesn't have
the address on it though. Sorry.
Heather A.
PENMART10
In article <meitreya-160...@flash.robl.accinet.net>,
meit...@phoebe.accinet.net (Heather Allen) writes:
Here ya go.
Igloo Products Corporation
1001 West Sam Houston PKWY North
Houston, TX 77043
(713) 461-5955
(713) 935-7702 (fax)
From: http://www.virtualpet.com/rbbi/news/stories/igloo.htm
Igloo Products Corp. Signs Deal with Brunswick Corp.
Houston Chronicle 20 November 1996
By Charles Boisseau Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Igloo Products Corp. is warming up to new owners.
The Houston company -- founded nearly 50 years ago as a maker of metal water
coolers for oil-field and construction workers -- said Tuesday it signed an
agreement to sell to Lake Forest, Ill.-based Brunswick Corp. for about $154
million in cash.
Brunswick is the world's leading maker of pleasure boats and marine equipment,
operator of one of the largest bowling chains and a top maker of bowling
equipment.
Privately owned Igloo would become part of a public company with $3.04 billion
in sales last year.
The sellers are a group that includes majority owner Metropolitan Life and the
management team at Igloo, which owns a small interest in the company, Igloo
Chief Executive Jonathan Godshall said.
Igloo's officers have stock options, some of which will be cashed in as part of
the purchase while others will be converted into shares of Brunswick, Godshall
said.
Igloo will become part ofBrunswick's growing Outdoor Recreation Group based in
Tulsa, Okla. The group includes Zebco fishing tackle; newly acquired Nelson
Weather-Rite, maker of camping equipment; and Roadmaster Industries, maker of
bicycles and Flexible Flyer sleds and wagons.
Brunswick has been expanding this group so it is less reliant on the cyclical
boating business, which makes up about three-quarters of its sales.
"It's a good deal for Brunswick," Jill Krutick, an analyst with Smith Barney in
New York, said of the purchase. She said the sales price is typical for such a
transaction, equal to Igloo's annual sales of about $150 million.
Brunswick corporate spokesman Ross Stemer said the purchase "fits in with
products we have." He noted every fisherman and camper takes along an ice chest
or cooler.
Investors pushed up shares of Brunswick Tuesday by 1/8 to 25 on the New York
Stock Exchange.
The companies said the transaction is expected to be completed early next year.
In Igloo, Brunswick is buying the leader in the more than $400 million U.S.
market for ice chests, beverage coolers and jugs.
Igloo has about 42 percent of the U.S. market, ahead of No. 2 Coleman Co. and
No. 3 Rubbermaid, said Ash Jaisin, president of Sports Market Research Group, a
Boston sporting goods market research firm.
Unlike its rivals, which are involved in all manner of outdoor and storage
products, "Igloo is focused on only one thing: ice chests, coolers and jugs,"
Jaisin said.
He added that, in contrast to Brunswick's recent purchases of camping and
bicycle companies, "this time they bought a leader, so the money was
well-spent."
Igloo has operated as a private company since it was bought by a group of
investors in a 1987 leveraged buyout, led by Godshall and Igloo managers and
backed by investors Metropolitan Life and the investment banker First Boston,
which later sold its interest.
Godshall said Igloo hired an investment banker and began searching for
acquisition partners earlier this year after Metropolitan Life officials said
it was time for them to cash in their investment.
Metropolitan Life officials did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday.
The option of selling shares to the public was explored but rejected, partly
because investors often shy away from highly seasonal businesses such as
Igloo's, in which sales during its busiest month -- June -- are 10 times those
in its slowest months, Godshall said.
Igloo entertained purchase offers from several companies, but in the end
decided on Brunswick "because it made sense," he said. Among other things, he
cited Brunswick's promise to keep Igloo as an autonomous operation. Also,
Brunswick's other outdoor products divisions could offer Igloo expertise in
marketing and other areas.
Godshall also said Brunswick could benefit from Igloo's stability during
economic doldrums. Unlike sales of boats, which typically sink during economic
downturns, sales of coolers and ice chests are aided by bad times, when people
often do more camping, picnicking and similar outdoor activities, he said.
Igloo's roots go back to 1947, when it was founded as a metalworking shop
called Igloo Manufacturing Co. to make metal water coolers used on the job.
While Igloo claims to make the only metal water cooler produced in the United
States, it has expanded mostly in plastics, making the world's first
all-plastic cooler in 1962.
Starting in the 1970s, Igloo was purchased by a series of new owners, including
Anderson, Clayton & Co., the Houston consumer products company that also made
such things as Chiffon margarine and Seven Seas salad dressings.
In 1987, a year after Anderson, Clayton was bought by Quaker Oats, Igloo was
sold to the current owners.
Today, Igloo produces nearly 1,000 products -- if you count the various colors
and configurations, including coolers on wheels and ones that plug into a car's
cigarette lighter.
Thousands of motorists each day pass Igloo's water tower and manufacturing
buildings at its headquarters at West Sam Houston Parkway and Interstate 10.
Its other manufacturing plant and warehouse -- with about 500,000 square feet
of space -- is located in Katy.
While sales slow down this time of year, Igloo's production operation is going
full blast, churning out next year's product line.
Godshall and Vice President Lee Stranathan on Tuesday showed off one of two new
1,300-ton, $800,000 plastic injection molding machines -- the largest such
machines in the Houston area, they say -- used to make insulated liners for
Igloo coolers.
In the morning, Godshall had met with Igloo's employees to reassure them they
expect no reduction in employment and operations. The company has about 1,500
workers, counting about 800 temporary workers it relies on during peak periods.
"We told them today the impact will be zero," Godshall said.
Stemer of Brunswick reiterated that message.
"Igloo people will continue to operate independently. They're not going to be
merged into something else or swallowed up," Stemer said.
In fact, in a rare interview, Godshall said the company hopes to gain
employment and business from Brunswick's other divisions, which do not have the
plastics design and production expertise that Igloo has built over the years.
"We actually think it could be a growth opportunity," said Godshall, 48, a
Harvard business school graduate who came to Houston in 1973 to work at
Anderson, Clayton & Co.
It's the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Stranathan said. "This
isn't a turnaround. This isn't a fix-up."
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Sheldon
BlackBeard
In article <199804161511...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
penm...@aol.com (PENMART10) wrote:
>>
>Here ya go.
>
>Igloo Products Corporation
>
<snip>
>Harvard business school graduate who came to Houston in 1973 to work at
>Anderson, Clayton & Co.
>
>It's the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Stranathan said. "This
>isn't a turnaround. This isn't a fix-up."
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>Sheldon
ALRIGHT! Who are you and what did you do with Sheldon? AN entire post
without an insult or sexual inuendo? Somethings rotten in Denmark...
BlackBeard
Submarines once, Submarines twice...
Trying to reason with hurricane season, in the Mojave desert.
brian utter
Thanks for all the in put. I'm going to call those guys today
and see what they have to say for themselves.
Thanks again, I'll let you know how it works out.
Jamie
brian utter
> I called the company. They gave me an 800 # for
replacement parts.
it's 1 800 364 5566
You can order right over the phone, fifteen dollar minimum, gotta be a
credit card.
The lady I talked to, Casey, is sending me an order form/ list of parts.
No minimum
and check or money order O.K.
Wow. It sure will be cool to put that cooler in to tip top shape. Last
weekend
we used balloons of all things and plastic pacing tape to stop up the
drain. It worked
great. Just lived without the hinges and the other handle.
I'll let you know how much this is going to cost.
I have another cooler that I bought at Costco in a weak moment. It is
the size of
a small coffin. It has dividers and seems pretty delux. Why shouldn't
I take my
whole refridgerator camping? But since I bought a station wagon,
it's kind of hard to pack it in the car with all the other camping gear,
and the kids, and
the dogs.
Jamie