Babolat

Babolat
Industry Sports equipment
Founded 1875
Headquarters Lyon, France
Products Racquets, strings, accessories and shoes.
Revenue €141,2 million (2014)
Number of employees
 360
Website http://www.babolat.com

Babolat /ˈbɑːboʊlɑː/ is a French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company, headquatered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players. The company has made strings since 1875, when Pierre Babolat created the first strings made of natural gut. Babolat continued to focus on strings until 1994, when it became a "total tennis" company, producing also racquet frames and selling them in Europe. It then expanded sales to Japan, and later to the USA in 2000. Sales of Babolat racquets increased rapidly in North America and Europe. Babolat is also a pioneer in connected sport technology and launched a connected tennis racket in 2014[1] and a connected wrist-worn tennis wearable with PIQ in 2015.[2]

Babolat sponsorships

Male players
Rafael Nadal with Babolat AeroPro Drive at Roland Garros 2007
Female players

References

  1. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/04/babolat-play-smart-racket-tennis
  2. ↑ http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/28/babolat-pop-piq-sensors/

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