Amer Sports: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Amer Sports (NYSE: AS) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland that owns 5 consumer brands, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]
Amer Sports was a Finnish tobacco and publishing company that turned itself into a sporting goods group by acquisition. A consortium led by China's Anta Sports bought it in 2019 and relisted it in New York in 2024, so a portfolio of Alpine and American sports brands is now controlled from Fujian.
Amer Sports acquired the Salomon group from adidas for about EUR 485 million, taking Salomon, Arc'teryx and Atomic in one transaction. adidas had bought Salomon in 1997 and concluded that winter sports equipment did not fit alongside football boots.