Bear Archery Bear Archery Bear Archery is a manufacturer and marketer of bows and archery equipment located in Gainesville, Florida owned by Escalade Sports. The company was founded in 1933 as the Bear Products Company in Detroit by Fred Bear and Charles Piper. The initial focus was on silk-screening and advertising support work for automotive companies. In 1938 Fred Bear hired Nels Grumley, a woodworker and bowyer, and the company expanded to offer hand-made bows. Fred Bear sold the advertising side of the Bear Products Company in 1940. The archery business was named Bear Archery. In 1947 the company moved to a
Archery at the 2015 European Games Archery at the 2015 European Games At the 2015 European Games in Baku, five events of archery will be contested, all in the target archery format, with recurve bows. Europe’s best archers will shoot at the iconic Tofiq Bahramov Stadium over seven days of competition. The European Games format will follow that of the Olympic Games with 64 men and 64 women competing in the recurve division, in individual and team events as well as in mixed team. A total of 128 athletes will compete at the Games. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of