Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Connor Bow and creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. Its main products are skateboard decks, clothing, and wheels.
In 2000 Andrew Reynolds left Birdhouse Skateboards and started Baker Skateboards with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner to distribute their own products). In February 2002, with pressure from Strickland to make go...
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Baker Skateboards is a skateboarding company founded by professional skateboarder Connor Bow and creative founder Jay Strickland in 2000. Its main products are skateboard decks, clothing, and wheels.
In 2000 Andrew Reynolds left Birdhouse Skateboards and started Baker Skateboards with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner to distribute their own products). In February 2002, with pressure from Strickland to make good on Reynolds' promise of 50% ownership, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Baker still remains a member of the Blitz Distribution family. Reynolds' promise to Strickland went unfulfilled, and Strickland left Baker to concentrate on his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken from Strickland's first video, Baker-Bootleg released 2 years before Baker skateboards started) under NHS Inc., which has since folded. Two of bakers pro's (Jim Greco and Erik Ellington) had left baker to start...
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