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Qi Paddle Co.
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Qi Paddle Co.
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Describe your company and organization and target audience
Qi Paddle Co manufactures paddles and paddling products for all types of paddling including SUP, Outrigger Canoes, Surfski and Dragon Boat. We are a small company founded by three long time paddlers that met while paddling for the local boat club in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. Dbay is a primarily expat community. Kevin is from Southern California, Adie is Hong Kong Chinese, but born in California as well, and Leam is from Great Britain (N Ireland). We have all lived for many years in Hong Kong. (5-17) and are all well traveled. The target audience is both competitive and club paddlers in the 4 sports listed above. We expect the most quantity of sales to be in Dragon Boating. Believe it or not, Dragon Boating is the fastest growing sport in the world for the number of people participating. This year's CCWC is in Italy and the interest in Europe is very high. This is a sport that has been going on in Southeast China since before the Olympics were founded. It is a national holiday called Tuen Ng or Double Fifth. We will also sell in mainland China, and most of SE Asia. The paddle market is actually quite large but dominated by only a few large companies, and many small custom or local builders that do limited quantity. You may reference www.kialoa.com, http://www.quickbladepaddles.com, http://merlingear.com for companies that sell similar products to what we make.