Dissolution
Canstar Sports Inc., the parent company of hockey product manufacturer Bauer Hockey, acquired the hockey division of Cooper in 1990, and was itself acquired by Nike five years later. Former Cooper lead staff purchased the baseball bat manufacturing division in spring 1999 to form KR3.
Jack Cooper was elected to the U.S. National Sporting Goods Association's Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 1989.
As of 2008, the Cooper branding is applied to budget-line volleyballs and basketballs sold at discount stores.
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