Baker skateboards

History

In 2000 Andrew Reynolds left Birdhouse Skateboards and started Baker Skateboards with Jay Strickland, along with Blitz Distribution as an investment partner to distribute their own products^[1]). In February 2002, with pressure from Strickland to make good on Reynolds' promise of 50% ownership, Reynolds purchased the shares of Baker owned by Blitz to become the sole owner. Baker still remains a member of the Blitz Distribution family. Reynolds' promise to Strickland went unfulfilled, and Strickland left Baker to concentrate on his own company, Bootleg Skateboards (with the name taken from Strickland's first video, Baker-Bootleg released 2 years before Baker skateboards started) under NHS Inc., which has since folded.

Today, Baker is still under Blitz Distribution but in 2007, Reynolds (along with fellow pro skateboarder Jim Greco) started up the Baker Boys Distribution which houses three companies owned by past and current Baker riders/associates. These companies are Shake Junt (created by Shane Heyl), Ashbury Sunglasses (created by Andrew Reynolds) and Deathwish Skateboards (created and owned by Erik Ellington and Jim Greco).^[2].