RB Products under French commercial court protection

Today French company RB Products issued a statement regarding the company’s future and to avoid any misleading rumours. From what is understood a shareholder of RB Products ran into financial problems but RB Products is currently working in a normal fashion and the 2015 engine range will be introduced next week. Support and products supply currently is unaffected by the new circumstances and restructuring will be finalised in March.

For some time, the GR Fi Group (a shareholder in RB Products) encountered difficulties with its banking partners. The best option was to be placed under the protection of the Commercial Court of Grenoble. Therefore, its subsidiary RB Products, is now under the same protection. The goal of this action is to ensure the continuation of the activity by the intervention of a new shareholder.

Monday March 2nd 2015

Official statement:
We would like to inform everybody within the RC industry that RB company is in a transitional period with normal working days. The new 2015 engines range will be released next week.
For some time, the GR Fi Group (a shareholder in RB Products) encountered difficulties with its banking partners. The best option was to be placed under the protection of the Commercial Court of Grenoble. Therefore, its subsidiary RB Products, is now under the same protection.
The goal of this action is to ensure the continuation of the activity by the intervention of a new shareholder.
This project will be finalized in March.
It will allow RB Products to keep its leadership.
Most will know the French company and RB Products brand well – all over the World, a company since  1992. RB have got 4 World titles, 24 time European champions, hundreds & hundreds of national titles. All of that under different categories and especially 1/8, 1/10 nitro, off-road and on-road both. The first major titles have been with engines and fuel. But, more recently, RB challenged to also go on different area’s with tires, cars, tools, accessories, etc… and has been the only brand to get a major title with a full RB 1/8 off-road package (RB car, RB engine, RB fuel, RB tires & RB ADS) on 2013 in Italy with a young driver and again last year with the Junior European title in Germany. It is a thing that people like to see, people like to see that challenges against mammoths are still possible, people like competition results are also some time not 100% due to the team who is the richest and/or with the comfortable quantity of drivers. There are also alternative RC brands who have got experience, passion. RB is one of them, Yes We can! With you!

Of course, the good things will remain (web site, quality products, competition, communication, Worldwide distributors, etc…) but certainly with even more fun, more hot news, new team driver…
Stay tuned!

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]