Goex Sold to Hodgdon

[arcticap]

There's some posts on another forum relating to the sale of Goex to Hodgdon, the manufacturer of Pyrodex and 777.

The first post stated:

This was posted on the Shiloh Rifle site by Mike Venturino.

According to a friend at Hodgdon Powder Company they became sole owner of Goex as of this morning. Starting Monday January 5th Tom Shepard, President of Hodgdon will also assume the title of President of Goex.

Hodgdon's plan is to leave manufacturing where it is and to aggressively promote sales and improve distribution

Another posted stated:

EMAIL REPLY FROM HODGDON....

As of January 2, 2009 Hodgdon Powder Company purchased GOEX. We intend to make no changes in the location of manufacture nor in the personnel who manufacture GOEX. As the largest share of the GOEX production goes to the military and commercial applications, we have great expectations that sales will continue strong and the sporting market will benefit from the volume being produced.
Rest assured, we want GOEX to go on for another hundred years.

New Customer Service Hours: 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM Central Time, Monday through Thursday. For help during any other time, please visit the Reloading Data Center at www.hodgdon.com

For a complete listing of all rifle, pistol and shotshell reloading recipes for Hodgdon, IMR and Winchester Smokeless Propellants, go to www.hodgdon.com and use the Reloading Data Center

Mike Daly
Customer Satisfaction Manager
The Hodgdon Powder Company Family of Propellants:
Hodgdon Smokeless powders
Pyrodex Muzzleloading Propellants
Triple Seven Muzzleloading Propellants
IMR Smokeless Powders
Winchester Smokeless Powders

 

[arcticap]

Here's another reported development:

The owner [of Hodgdon] said the only change that he has definite plans for is to change [the BP containers] from metal to plastic because it is "safer" for transporting.

I'm just going on what I read as a letter between two old friends that one of the two posted.

Start kissing those metal Goex containers bye! bye!

 

[alsaqr]

Thanks for the heads up. Wonder what will happen to Goex Pinnacle powder? It is made by APP.

 

[dwave]

The owner [of Hodgdon] said the only change that he has definite plans for is to change [the BP containers] from metal to plastic because it is "Cheaper" for us.

Fixed it up for you.