rmteo
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And your reasoning for coming to that conclusion.
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How many lights does MAGLITE make per month/year?
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american lockpicker
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Re: How many lights does MAG make per month/year?
Do you mean Maglite?
Do you mean Maglite?
rmteo
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Yes, title modified.
savumaki
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You would stand a better chance asking them.
I think your title was correct. Maglites are products of Mag Instruments.
TITAN1833
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Last I heard they make a few 
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FWIW, this little tidbit caught my eye, so i "saved" it:
On 04/06/2008, MattK (respected dealer/owner of Battery Junction)wrote on CPF:
" something like 300 Million MiniMags have been sold into the US market " ! ! !
They were introduced in 1984.
So, that's 12 Million a Year.
Or, a Million of 'em, every Month !
And that was just stated to be the US market !
Hope this is helpful.
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On 04/06/2008, MattK (respected dealer/owner of Battery Junction)wrote on CPF:
" something like 300 Million MiniMags have been sold into the US market " ! ! !
They were introduced in 1984.
So, that's 12 Million a Year.
Or, a Million of 'em, every Month !
And that was just stated to be the US market !
Hope this is helpful.
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rmteo
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Mag Instrument is a privately held corporation.
The annual revenue for Mag Instruments is reported to be three hundred million per http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/g...244E7CBB3FDE80DB9C08F7§ion=press_releases.
If we make some wild assumption that the reported annual revenues are for flashlights only at $25.00 each, we can conclude that they produce about one million flashlights per month world wide (hard to believe).
If we make some wild assumption that the reported annual revenues are for flashlights only at $25.00 each, we can conclude that they produce about one million flashlights per month world wide (hard to believe).
270winchester
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25 is the retail price and probably does not reflect the revenue Maglites' whole sale price to distributors, so the number of lights they make is probably much bigger.
Although we don't know where Maglites are made these days. All the ones I see in stores say "patented in US" and nothing about where they are made.
Although we don't know where Maglites are made these days. All the ones I see in stores say "patented in US" and nothing about where they are made.
american lockpicker
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If they were marked "made in USA" they would get sued by the State of California for having foriegn content in them(bulbs, LEDs, lens,etc.)
rmteo
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Based on sales of $300M and what little other data is available, it seems that MAG produces about 2-2.5 million lights per month - perhaps 24-30 million units per year.
Wonder how many Surefire does in comparison? Does anyone know or is there already a thread on SF numbers?
Wonder how many Surefire does in comparison? Does anyone know or is there already a thread on SF numbers?
I saw an article recently (I'll try to post a link) that was about how Mag Instruments was hiring a Croatian firm to manufacture some of their parts.
Ah, here it is...
http://www.croatiantimes.com/index.php?id=3074
Ah, here it is...
http://www.croatiantimes.com/index.php?id=3074
american lockpicker
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I hope its bulbs and electronics.
Youfoundnemo
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Doesnt anyone notice that this is a trick question, Maglite doesnt make "lights" they make batons and hosts.
Maglite makes 0 lights per month/year
Maglite makes 0 lights per month/year
Based on Hoovers http://www.hoovers.com/Company-Over...xcs,src__global--/free-co-dnb_factsheet.xhtml
Surefires revenues are estimated to be 14 million dollars for 2008. Since SF produces so many varied products, it would be difficult to extrapolate how many hand held flashlights are produced each year. The mfg run rate would be much less than Mag. If I had to guess what the run rate was for SF, I would guess about 5,000 units per month.
american lockpicker
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Big_Ed
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Nope! I have some stock ones I use, both LED versions and incandescent versions.
