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Club Car: World's Top Manufacturers Of Golf Vehicles

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Club Car, LLC, is one of the world's top manufacturers of golf carts. The company is based in Augusta, Georgia and produces light- and heavy-duty, 4x2, and 4x4 utility vehicles. Their vehicles are used for grounds maintenance as well as other industrial and commercial applications, including hauling materials and transportation. Club Car offers also a wide variety of optional accessories to adapt its vehicles to specific uses. These options include windshields and enclosures, refreshment setups, cargo boxes, custom dashboards, stereos, coolers, plow blades, and gun racks. They have a global reach of more than 600 dealers, distributors, and branch offices that handle sales and servicing of Club Car vehicles. Club Car's history begins in …show more content…

They began developing a new utility vehicle that was more powerful and efficient and boasted a 48-volt electric motor. The vehicle, called the DS, was a popular product for Club Car over the next two decades. Other vehicles followed and in 1993, Club Car was taken public in the stock market. Soon the company was acquired by Ingersoll-Rand, a New-Jersey based conglomerate. Attorney Montague Miller was placed as the new president and CEO, and he had previous experience working with the company. In his legal career, he had provided counsel to the E-Z-GO executives who bought the company from Johns Manville. He then began working for Club Car in 1990. Despite the change in ownership and management, Club Car continued to rely on the popularity of the DS model to sustain growth for the future. Along with Yamaha and E-Z-GO, Club Car was one of the top companies in the market. Club Car later began to look to diversify its customer base and in 2001 the company introduced its Café Express line of food-and-beverage carts, as well as the Pioneer line of carryall utility vehicles that were capable of navigating rough terrain. Club Car sought to expand beyond the recreational market to attract customers in the agricultural and construction

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