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Foosball Tables > Carrom

Carrom Foosball Tables

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Carrom is an American family game manufacturer that has been around for over 130 years. They are based out of Ludington, Michigan which is a port city right on Lake Michigan. It is a beautiful small town where boutique shops still carry their family game line. Carrom started as a pool table manufacturer in the 1890's and later expanded into other family game tables like air and bubble hockey, foosball, shuffleboard, basketball arcades, and other family games as they became popular during the 1900's. Carrom is more known in the foosball industry for creating fun family tables than tournament or professional line products. As their motto and production goal states, "Quality Family Games".

Manufacturer's Website: https://carrom.com
Carrom Foosball Table Models
Carrom Harley Davidson Foosball Table
Harley Davidson

Carrom NASCAR Foosball Table
NASCAR

Carrom Signature Foosball Table
Signature

Carrom Burr Oak Foosball Table
Burr Oak

Carrom Agean Foosball Table
Agean

Carrom Foosball Table History
Compared to other manufacturers we have reviewed, the company has an extremely rich heritage in the family gaming industry and a lot of ups and downs along the way. They have proven to be able to adapt with the times in order to stay with the trends that are required to make a company last the test of time. 

1980s: Henry Haskell, a Sunday School teacher, patented and introduced the Carrom board game which he produced at Ludington Novelty Works in Ludington, Michigan.
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1900s: Ludington Novelty Works and Archarena Company of Peoria, IL., merged and become Carrom-Archarena Co. which allowed them to expand into a beautiful line of billiard pool tables along with many varieties of wood furniture.

1910s: J.S. Stearns, a wealthy industrialist, purchases an interest in the company and takes over as president. He then changes the name to Carrom company.

1920s: The Carrom Company continued to grow and prosper until the late 1920s when the Great Depression began. The company was kept alive only because of the wealth of Stearns’ and his interests to maintain employment during this difficult economic time.

1930s: “Carrom Boy” first appears in advertisements. Carrom Company enters the field of institutional furniture manufacturing. This new venture turned out to be too demanding and required too much investment. It led to the company filing for bankruptcy by the end of the 1930s and the name was changed to Carrom Industries in 1939.

1940s: Henry Haskell died and Will Ross, Inc., of Milwaukee purchased Carrom Industries due to the hospital and WWII furniture that Nok-Hockey introduced such as large folding tables to display maps for the military while in the field.

1950s: Shampaine Industries of St. Louis, MO. buys Carrom Industries and institutional furniture makes up the largest part of the company’s revenue.

​1960s: Three Carrom Industries employees break away and form Merdel Manufacturing, which directly competes with Carrom Industries. Merdel uses one “R” on their Carom game boards which creates lawsuits among the two companies.

1970s: Merdel Manufacturing purchases remaining assets of now defunct Carrom Games Division and can use two “R”s in Carrom.

1980s: The Lightning Group (Duncannon, PA.) purchases Merdel Manufacturing.

1990s: Carrom Company purchases the Drueke Company and moves its manufacturing operation from Grand Rapids, MI., to Ludington. Drueke is well known for its quality chess, cribbage, backgammon and other board games. Name changes back to the Carrom Company in 1994. Carrom Company purchases remaining assets of bankrupt Recreational Products and moves production of their adult-size air powered hockey, foosball, and pool tables to Ludington. This creates the Carrom Sports division

2010s: In 2014 the Carrom Co. began its inaugural “Unplug your Kids: Connect the Family” initiative, asking families across America to turn off their TVs, computers, phones and mobile devices and spend a few hours playing games around the kitchen table or in their family rooms. The goal is to start a movement that would encourage families to unplug every Sunday and spend time together laughing, playing games and just having fun.

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