Dwindle Distribution

History

• Steve Rocco and Rodney Mullen founded Dwindle. Rocco grouped his remaining companies under the Dwindle name in 1998. [1][4]
• In 2002 Australia's Globe International bought Kubic Marketing, the holding company that owned World Industries and Dwindle. The deal made Globe one of the world's biggest skateboard companies. [2][3]
• Dwindle set up its own deck factory, DSM (Douglas Street Manufacturing), in Shenzhen, China. The factory was announced publicly in 2003. [1]
• Zero Skateboards moved to Dwindle for distribution in June 2014. In 2016 Jamie Thomas took it back to run independently. [6]
• In 2019 Globe sold Dwindle to Bravo Sports, a company owned by Transom Capital Group. The sale covered Almost, Blind, Darkstar, Dusters, Enjoi, Speed Demons, Superior, Tensor and the DSM factory. [5][2]
• Hugh 'Bod' Boyle became Dwindle's president and Steve Douglas its vice-president. Its brands later included New Deal, 101 Heritage and Madness alongside Almost, Enjoi, Blind and Darkstar. [1]