Schildkröt, the old German brand of table tennis equipment, continues its strategy of diversification after it already launched the Schildkröt Funsports category a few years ago. Now, the brand owner, MTS, has announced that it is launching Schildkröt Fitness, a category dedicated to smaller fitness equipment such as expanders, barbells, balance boards and others. Schildkröt was founded back in 1896 and is now a brand of MTS, a manufacturer and distributor of indoor sporting goods. MTS owns, besides Schildkröt, the brands Donic, Unsquashable and Talbot-Torro, while it acts as a local distributor of Speedminton and Tecnifibre, the French supplier of racquet strings.