Times certainly changed when DuPont cut them loose. The "new" Remington whored out their name for other companies to sell branded trinkets, sponsored a stock car and other "advertising ventures" to no avail, and released a cubic crapload of mediocre new designs while ending production of models that worked. The owners then committed the penultimate folly of acquiring Marlin and flushing that brand down the toilet in less than a year and rattling the handle thereafter... the R51 fiasco has been sort of an encore.
"I don't need to know anything about a product, because I know how to manage money (or people, or flow charts, or...)" works great until the money is gone and no shark will loan you any more. The only way Remington could have been sodomized any harder than it was would have been if Mitt Romney had been put in charge of it.
Well, be that as it may, Remington was a major customer of mine in the late 90’s during the Sterling Marlin days, I did a lot of their marketing materials and retail POS for NASCAR as well as the Custom Gun Shop. It was great business and beautiful work. Took it away from a DuPont descendant, but he kept at them and eventually got it back after a few years. They’re not now what they were even then. Never did appear to put any real roots down at their headquarters in NC.
Dirty shame what happened to the old line top quality firearms companies...Winchester, Marlin, S&W, Colt, Marlin etc.Greed and stupidity.