Wilson Sporting Goods Co. manufactures ball sports equipment. It offers gloves, balls, bags, rackets, kneepads, strings, grips, caps, and accessories for football, basketball, fastpitch, slowpitch, volleyball, soccer, golf, tennis, squash, badminton, baseball, and racquet ball. Wilson Sporting Goods Co. was founded in 1913 as Ashland Manufacturing Company and changed its name to Thomas E. Wilson Company in 1916, and further changed it to Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in 1931. The Wilson business is structured into three business areas: Racquet Sports, Team Sports and Golf. Wilson Staff is the golf division of Wilson Sporting Goods. The company designs and manufactures a full range of golf equipment, accessories and clothing using the Wilson Staff, ProStaff and Ultra brands. Headquartered in Chicago, in the United States, Wilson is an Amer Sports Company. Amer Sports is based in Helsinki, Finland. Its dedicated sales network serves customers in over 100 countries.
