Leupold Purchases Redfield Optics Brand
Leupold & Stevens, Inc. has acquired the Redfield brand of optics from Meade Instruments. Founded in 1909, Redfield was a leading U.S. producer of riflescopes, spotting scopes, and binoculars for many decades until it closed in 1998. In recent years, the Redfield brand changed hands several times, before being acquired by Meade Instruments, which sold the Redfield brand to Leupold.
Presumably, Leupold plans to develop and market a lower-cost line of riflescopes, binoculars, and spotting scopes to wear the Redfield name. We wouldn’t be surprised if some of these Redfield-branded optics are produced overseas, most likely in Asia — but we have not been able to confirm or deny that possibility.
Tom Fruechtel, President and CEO of Leupold & Stevens, declined to discuss the plans for Redfield under Leupold ownership, but did state: “For half a century, Leupold respected Redfield as a leading innovator and competitor in the sports optics industry. The opportunity… to rescue this American brand from dormancy could not be missed.”
Leupold & Stevens, Inc., a fifth-generation, American family-owned company, employs more than 650 people in its Beaverton, Oregon facility. Leupold’s product line includes rifle, handgun and spotting scopes; binoculars; rangefinders; and optical tools and accessories.
I have a 4 power Redfield scope that i would like to have seviced. Can I now send that to leupold?
I have just ordered a 3×9 Revolution. I only own one Leupold scope which I purchased many years ago (a fixed vari-x II 6x), and couln’t be more pleased with it. The reason I only have one Leupold is that they have always been out of my price range. Now if I can afford a quality scope from a quality American company, that’s what I’ve needed. It is yet to be seen if this scope is as good as Josepf von Benedikt, Editor In Chief at Shooting Times Magazine, claims in his article in the Feb. 2010 issue. My only issue with it may be it being a two piece body.