MacNeill Pride Group Acquires Rightline Gear

MacNeill Pride Group (MPG), a diversified global designer and manufacturer of outdoor products and sporting goods, has acquired Rightline Gear, an Asheville, North Carolina, automotive and outdoor gear designer. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MPG is a portfolio company of Centre Partners.

Founded in 2009, Rightline Gear makes products that help customers have experiences they remember for a lifetime. Rightline Gear’s automotive and outdoor gear – car top carriers, truck and SUV tents, air mattresses, tailgating canopies, cargo products, foam block paddle sport carriers, jeep storage bags and interior accessories – is designed, developed and tested with company values in mind: safe and easy to use; able to keep customers’ gear dry; versatile in attachment; universal in application where possible and tough enough to take on any adventure.

Rightline Gear features products, such as the Moki Door Step, that resonate with outdoor adventurers.

Loran Evans, Rightline Gear’s founder and CEO, will remain with the company. Cory Tholl, president and general manager of Klymit, an MPG brand, will lead the camp segment of the portfolio made up of Klymit and Rightline Gear.

With the acquisition of Rightline Gear, MPG continues its expansion through acquisition. Rightline Gear is the fourth addition to its outdoor platform in less than two years. Its growing footprint in new and complementary markets capitalizes on continued momentum from the acquisitions of Klymit, in July 2021, GCI Outdoor, in May 2021 and ORCA in December 2019. All of the brands across MPG’s portfolio share complementary outdoor usage occasions.