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Playland

is in the Retail Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

We were founded...... In 1983, Donald Strickland and Anthony Strickland started making see-saws and swing sets out of a converted mechanics garage. The original Playland was truly a family affair with the father and son team both fabricating and selling the companies products. Along the way...... In 1990, Anthony Strickland took over the company as President and CEO and set out on a course to develop the beginnings of what is today's product line of modular play-systems, originally and fondly named Playland Systems. The Playground People merger...... Playland became a division of Superior International Industries in 1997. Superior International Industries, or as their customers know them, SII, was founded in 1991, by Rob Pepper and Ray Derbecker as a components supplier to both the commercial and residential playground industry. While building on their customer base, they partnered up with one of the original founders of Playland, Anthony Strickland, in 1997, to form the New Playland and push forward with a mission to build high quality commercial outdoor play products, at an affordable price, while maintaining the highest safety standards within the industry. The unique thing is that the new partnership was not just a group of investors and partners, they became a group who have invested their life within the playground industry and can proudly say they are one of the only playground companies in the market today that have leaders that are lifelong "Playground People". ...

Number of Employees 75
Contact Information

150 Adamson Industrial Blvd

Carrollton, Georgia 30117-5408

www.playland-in...

(770) 834-6120

NAICS Code Sporting Goods Stores: 451110

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  • Carol Olson: Remembering a one-of-a-kind Playland

    - 2009-07-11

    My earliest memory of Playland at The Beach in San Francisco is when I was about 11 years old. I'd never seen such a place in my whole life. The cackling head of Laughin' Sal greeted you from above the Fun House. Her screeching...

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  • Get Out: Play in El Cerrito at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach

    - 2009-06-11

    Playland-Not-At-The-Beach, one the Bay Area's most bizarro places honoring the old San Francisco Playland, unveils its latest attraction this weekend featuring a tribute to "Santa Baby" singer Eartha Kitt. Frank Biafore, president of the International Eartha Kitt Fan Club, will be at the El Cerrito...

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  • Report cites Playland's assets

    - 2009-05-11

    Countering critics who contend Westchester County should not be in the amusement park business, county officials last week released a study showing that visitors to Rye Playland have an estimated $27.7-million annual economic impact in the county. The study by Economics Research Associates ERA, an international consulting firm based in...

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  • Garden as Art: Rhododendrons

    - 2009-04-03

    RHODIE SHOW: Marilynne Mellander sent us this photo of her "Sappho" rhododendron in full bloom, and a reminder that the annual show and sale organized by the California chapter of the American Rhododendron Society is set for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 11 at the Lakeside Garden Club,...

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  • El Cerrito chamber says goodbye to familiar faces

    - 2008-12-10

    The El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce monthly mixer next week represents a changing of the guard as much as it does a holiday business gathering. Sewall Glinternick, the business group's manager for more than 13 years, and chamber Secretary Pat Berndt, who has been involved with the organization...

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  • Palm Arnold Wins 2008 Extras Best of Show

    - 2008-09-23

    The Canadian Newspaper Association is pleased to announce that the winner of the Best of Show for the 2008 Extra Awards - and a trip for two to Cannes 2009 - is Quebec agency Palm Arnold, for their "Paper Ball" execution for the International Soccer Student Association ISSA....

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  • Palm Arnold Wins 2008 Extras Best of Show

    - 2008-09-23

    The Canadian Newspaper Association is pleased to announce that the winner of the Best of Show for the 2008 Extra Awards - and a trip for two to Cannes 2009 - is Quebec agency Palm Arnold, for their "Paper Ball" execution for the International Soccer Student Association ISSA....

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  • Fun, just like in the good old days

    - 2008-07-08

    As Valerie Zuffi peers into the newly opened Playland-Not-At-The- Beach's "Circus World" display, her face lights up with expressions of delight. "Oh! Look at her!" Zuffi says to her adult companions, her eyes fixed on what looks like a performer costuming and grooming area. "Look at her washing...

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  • Lawmakers consider $8M Playland renovations

    - 2008-04-28

    Westchester County legislators are considering an $8 million plan to renovate two dilapidated bathhouses at Playland Amusement Park. Some legislators toured the county-owned site earlier this month to look at the structures. One tentative plan is to convert them to become the home of the Westchester Children's Museum, which would...

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  • Historic Playland ready for second act

    - 2008-01-06

    When Richard Tuck and his business partner bought a building on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito about a decade ago, they agreed that a small portion would be used for their day job -- an executive recruiting firm. The rest, according to Tuck, would be used for fun. ...

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