June 20, 2007, Daisy President & C.E.O. Ray Hobbs and Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, made an announcement at a press conference held under a tent in the field in front of Daisy’s offices: Daisy is coming home to Rogers. After ten excellent years of assembly operations in Neosho, Missouri, Daisy would relocate the entire operations under one roof, in the same facility in which the company had housed their offices since November, 1999. The move was made in record time and on July 25, 2007, the first Red Ryder came off the production line.
In 2008, Daisy celebrated 50 years in Rogers, Arkansas. The City of Rogers and Daisy hosted a four-day weekend celebration which was called a Homecoming. In addition to Daisy staff, Daisy Museum personnel, retirees and community friends, 189 Daisy collectors from every corner of the U.S. and Canada, registered for the event. An extremely limited-edition engraved Red Ryder BB gun commemorated the event and was numbered 1 of 189 in honor of the 189 people who registered for and reserved one of the guns.
You still have a Daisy Airgun tin sign to bring back all the old memories and share new ones with your kids.