Leatherman discontinues Monarch flashlights

parnass · Apr 19, 2011

I searched the Leatherman.com web site today for flashlights and found none.

A call to the Leatherman customer service department confirmed that the company has discontinued their Monarch line of LED flashlights. The representative said to keep watching their web site for a possible introduction of a new line of lights later this year.

I am still using Leatherman's earlier generation Serac S2 and S3 lights and they are well built.

mrlysle · Apr 19, 2011

I believe they were made by Fenix?

jellydonut · Apr 19, 2011

Didn't Leatherman buy LED Lenser last year?

utlgoa · Apr 19, 2011

jellydonut said:
Didn't Leatherman buy LED Lenser last year?

Leatherman Tool Group Inc. on December 15th 2010 said it acquired one of the world's leading flashlight manufacturers in a deal that nearly triples the size of its work force.
Portland-based Leatherman will hold a majority stake in Zweibrüder Optoelectronics GmbH & Co. KB, a Solingen, Germany-based company that makes flashlights under the LED Lenser brand.
Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in a little over two months, were not disclosed.
Leatherman is known mostly as a manufacturer of knives and multi-tools — pocket knife-like products with multiple applications.
Though it is already a participant in the LED light space with its Monarch series of flashlights, the acquisition would seem to make it one of the biggest players in a lighting sector that's projected to grow 35 percent this year.
In a news release, Leatherman said Zweibrüder employs more than 1,000 people worldwide.
Leatherman, by contrast, employs just 380.
Leatherman intends to keep the companies separate, with Leatherman tools being made in Portland and the LED Lenser brand retaining its German design and Asian manufacturing operations.
Leatherman CEO Jake Nichol will head both Leatherman Tool Group Inc. and a new subsidiary that will become the majority shareholder in Zweibrüder.
Brothers Rainer and Harald Opolka, the founders of Zweibrüder, will remain minority shareholders, though Rainer will stay active in product development and marketing.
Rakesh Sridharan, formerly Leatherman's vice president of operations, has been named president of LED Lenser and a managing director of Zweibrüder. Also named a managing director is Sven Objartel, the company's head of operations in Germany. The current German management team will remain in place.
In a news release, Nichol said the deal supports Leatherman's strategy of expanding into adjacent markets.
It also combines Leatherman's advanced manufacturing capabilities with LED Laser's product creation process.
"The entire team becomes that much more agile and our business practices that much stronger," Nichol said.

Read more: Leatherman acquisition triples work force | Portland Business Journal

Kindle · Apr 20, 2011

Well that explains it!

Good call jellydonut & thanks for the link utlgoa.

Leatherman discontinues Monarch flashlights

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