Who Makes CenterPoint Crossbows?

CenterPoint Archery's own site carries the line "A Velocity Outdoor Company" in its footer. Velocity Outdoor Inc. is itself a subsidiary of Compass Diversified Holdings, a publicly traded holding company (NYSE: CODI) whose own site lists Velocity Outdoor among its current portfolio businesses. Compass Diversified owns a spread of consumer brands across different categories, not just outdoor gear, and runs each as a largely independent operating company rather than merging them into one product line. That structure is why CenterPoint, a budget-tier crossbow brand, and the ownership behind it are two different things worth separating when the question is who actually stands behind the product.

Three dates cover the part of this ownership chain that actually changed: in September 2018, Velocity Outdoor Inc. acquired Ravin Crossbows, adding a premium crossbow line to a portfolio that already included CenterPoint. In May 2024, Crosman Corporation - a separate Velocity Outdoor division built around airguns rather than crossbows - was sold to Daisy Manufacturing Company, a portfolio company of BRS & Co. CenterPoint was not part of that sale; its ownership did not change in 2024, only Crosman's did.

Per the investment bank's own record of the deal, Ravin Crossbows was acquired by Velocity Outdoor Inc. in September 2018 - putting CenterPoint's budget-tier bows and Ravin's premium crossbow line under the same parent company. That explains a detail that shows up directly on CenterPoint's own site: the CP400's string and cable stop kit is listed under the Ravin brand name rather than CenterPoint's. Sharing parts and manufacturing across sister brands under one parent is a normal arrangement, not a mislabeled listing.

Crosman Corporation, long associated with the airgun side of this corporate family and the source of the customer-service number still printed in CenterPoint's manuals (1-866-726-1122), was a division of Velocity Outdoor until May 2024, when it was sold to Daisy Manufacturing Company, a portfolio company of BRS & Co. Older brand round-ups that group CenterPoint, Ravin, Crosman and Benjamin together as one Velocity Outdoor family predate that split. CenterPoint's own footer still reads "Velocity Outdoor," so the archery side of the business did not move with Crosman to Daisy - if you are relying on an older source that lists Crosman as CenterPoint's current manufacturer, that is no longer accurate.

Not on its own. Being a budget brand under a larger holding company says something about scale and supply chain, not about how a specific bow shoots. The full brand assessment on this site covers that question directly, built from specs and owner reports rather than the ownership chart. What ownership does explain is why support and warranty administration (see CenterPoint's warranty terms) and some shared accessories, like the Ravin-branded CP400 kit above, look the way they do.