October 10, 2008

Boedecker buys assets of Crocs Canada Inc.

By

BOULDER – George Boedecker Jr., a co-founder and former chief executive of Crocs Inc., and a group of private investors have purchased the assets of Crocs Canada Inc.

Boedecker, from Boulder, and his team of investors will rename the business Foam Creations 2008 Inc. Prior to becoming Crocs Canada in 2004, the company’s original name was Foam Creations Inc.

This past April, Crocs (Nasdaq: CROX) ceased shoe manufacturing at the Quebec City, Canada-based facility, resulting in the loss of about 600 jobs. According to Kelly Gray, a spokesman for Foam Creations, the company will retain the 30 remaining employees at the…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
Categories: Archived Columns
Sign up for BizWest Daily Alerts
Closing in 8 seconds...