Although 2008 was a tough year for the kayak industry, it was a record year for us, and we’re looking forward to another great year in 2009.
The numbers for January 09 are encouraging: Our sales this month topped last year’s January sales by more than 60%, and the number of visitors to our website this month increased by a similar proportion, to more than 10,000 individuals.
Why are we telling this?
Because we think our customers would be interested and pleased to know it, especially those who’ve been supporting us in various ways, and because we’d like to use the opportunity to thank all of them again for choosing our W-kayaks.
We know it’s not always easy to make such a purchase decision, especially for customers who don’t get the chance to test our product, or even see it in real life before ordering it. It’s especially tough in the current economic conditions, where every dollar counts more than it did before.
We also want to show that if what you have to offer is good enough, you can make it even in today’s hostile economic environment.
With all the doom and gloom around it’s nice to read something different!
Mike
Good job!
Congrats,
April
It’s easy to achieve such results when you have the best product on the market
Marco
Who’s buying kayaks in New England now??
The rivers and lakes here have been frozen for a long time, but people from Virginia, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern California don’t have this problem, apparently…
Yoav
Best product & best service!
Bob
GO WAVEWALK!
The W repesents a fine example of how a man with an idea can take it and create something new, different, and successful. Some of the best inventions ever have come from humble beginings and not a corporate giant. The W boat should contine to grow and become even more popular in the years to come. It will always have my support and I’ll be a proud fisherman in the W as long as I can cast a line.
Makes perfect sense to me!
FW
UPDATE:
The world’s biggest kayak manufacturer is a US, publicly traded company. Their watercraft business includes motorboats, canoes and kayaks, and they make other equipment as well.
They recently reported that their 2008 last quarter net sales for their watercraft business lines decreased by 18% relatively to the prior year (2007) last quarter, primarily due to (quote) “weak economic conditions and softening paddlesports markets”.
‘Softening’? That’s not the picture we see at Wavewalk.