Talk:BowFlex, Inc.

I put a NPOV tag up on the article because it reads like a Nautilus sales brochure, and not an encyclopedia article. Plus it may be a copyright violation as well...

SweetP112 19:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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I removed qualifying statements such as "the leader" changing it to simply "a leader." - things like that. My simple purpose was to lay out that there is this company called Nautilus and that they don't just make those old "nautilus machines" and that they've morphed over the years into a big player in the fitness industry.

Until I did some research a few years back, I thought they were some dumb bell company. SimonATL 21:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok cool, it's a step in the right direction. I would recommend getting rid of the section titles (Corporate Divisions, Direct Division, Commercial Division, Retail Division, Nautilus' Support for Fitness Education), given that they all contain only one sentence each, and combining them into a paragraph. I would also recommend adding a section about Nautilus' history - Nautilus (along with its founder, Arthur Jones) was arguably the number one influence in the 1970s "health craze" revolution in North America, and the company has a very interesting history.

Having said all that, it looks like you're the only one who has been working on the article, so I have to say thanks for writing the article in the first place and making Wikipedia more complete. SweetP112 22:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I was bold. I took SweetP's recommendations and ran with them. I also eliminated the Arthur Jones info that was repeated in his article and reorganized. I removed the advert tag, too, but there are no sources for any of the info, so it gains an unreferenced tag. History section still needs to be fleshed out more.... Twisted86 07:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Updates
"Real life" found me reading the entirety of the company's annual report as well as doing a decent amount of prodding around on the company's site. I updated some of the information, and added citations where possible. All of the data now comes from their 2006 annual report (Form 10-K). A few comments:
 * They closed their Texas manufacturing plant in 2006. I'm not confident enough, however, to state that they don't have a presence in Texas, so I'm not changing the list of states.
 * When replacing some of the 2005 data with 2006 data, I had financials for the past few years in front of me... Some of the 2005 data wasn't even right. Now it's all cited so you can verify that it's right this time around.

Glad to finally give back to Wikipedia a bit! Fogster 04:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Clarification of Nautilus' historyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures
The article had stated that "Nautilus and its corporate predecessors have been in the exercise and fitness equipment industry for over 30 years." Just for clarity, given the ever-changing nature of when 30 years ago would be, I added the following, adapting info from Nautilusinc.com: "The actual company Nautilus was formed in 1970, to create exercise equipment designed with Nautilus-shaped cams that would apply greater resistance in exercise motions where muscles are strongest." Hope that's ok--it's been quite awhile since I've edited anything here. Toscaskiss32 (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

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Nautilus sale of Octane Fitness
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