Smith & Wesson completed its transition Tuesday to a new corporate name — American Outdoor Brands Corporation — which is more fitting with its diversification strategy.
(MassLive)- The new name, first announced in November, brings with it a new stock ticker symbol on the Nasdaq exchange: AOBC.
The holding company has new website at www.aob.com, but will maintain its smith-wesson.com site as a product site for its the firearms brand, which will remain Smith & Wesson.
Smith & Wesson shareholders needn’t do anything, American Outdoor Brands said Tuesday in an press release. Certificates representing common shares will not be affected by the name change and will not need to be exchanged.
Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson founded the company in Connecticut in 1852, later building it in Springfield into a worldwide leader that supplied guns to the old West, the Army of the Russian czar and the allies in both World Wars.