Who owns Professional Bowlers Association?
Professional Bowlers Association is owned by Lucky Strike Entertainment (the United States, NYSE: LUCK).[1]
Evidence: Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-27, SEC EDGAR, 27 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Mechanicsville
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Live & sport › Sports leagues
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: LUCK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Professional Bowlers Association
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is, in the words of Lucky Strike Entertainment's fiscal 2026 Form 10-K, the major sanctioning body for professional ten-pin bowling in the United States. It is a membership organization for professional bowlers and the host of several professional bowling tours and tournaments and related broadcasting, and the filing calls it a strategic part of the company's operations.
What Lucky Strike Entertainment's annual report says about Professional Bowlers Association
Sentences about Professional Bowlers Association from Lucky Strike Entertainment's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
As the leader in bowling entertainment, the Professional Bowlers Association ("PBA") is a strategic part of our operations, as the PBA has thousands of members and millions of fans across the globe.
How often Lucky Strike Entertainment names Professional Bowlers Association in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Professional Bowlers Association
- Current owner Lucky Strike Entertainment [1] verified
Where Professional Bowlers Association sits in Lucky Strike Entertainment
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Lucky Strike Entertainment
Lucky Strike Entertainment controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in media & entertainment.
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About the owner: Lucky Strike Entertainment
Lucky Strike Entertainment is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mechanicsville, United States, founded in 1997. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: LUCK.
Lucky Strike Entertainment is headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as LUCK. Its fiscal 2026 Form 10-K says it has a history dating to its founding in 1997 and operates over 360 locations across North America in bowling, amusements, water parks and family entertainment centres. The filing also names the Professional Bowlers Association as a strategic part of its operations. Its Lucky Strike bowling venues are unrelated to the Lucky Strike cigarette brand.
Lucky Strike Entertainment: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Professional Bowlers Association and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Professional Bowlers Association is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Professional Bowlers Association?
The parent company of Professional Bowlers Association is Lucky Strike Entertainment, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Professional Bowlers Association American?
Yes. Professional Bowlers Association originated in the United States and its owner, Lucky Strike Entertainment, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Professional Bowlers Association still owned by Lucky Strike Entertainment?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Professional Bowlers Association is still owned by Lucky Strike Entertainment. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-27 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 27 August 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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