Stetson - Fashion Company Profile
Stetson is John B. Stetson's 1865 Philadelphia hat company - maker of the Boss of the Plains and the standard in Western hats for 160 years - today a licensed brand whose hats are made by Hatco in Garland, Texas.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the Stetson brand operates as a licensor; its hats are manufactured by Hatco, Inc. in Garland, Texas
- Type
- Private - the John B. Stetson Company brand, licensed to Hatco for hats since 1987
- Headquarters
- New York, New York, United States (hat factory: Garland, Texas)
- Founded
- 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by John B. Stetson
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Company Profile
Stetson's current hats and licensed products are on its website, linked above, and the shop box covers Stetson products sold through Amazon and eBay. The photograph on this page shows Stetson hats as recorded in 2020. The profile itself keeps the founder's story whole - the $100 start, the $10 of fur, the father who trained him and the quality creed that made a surname into the generic word for a Western hat - because with Stetson the history is the brand: the same name that outfitted the nineteenth-century West is the one on the Garland factory's output today.
At its peak the John B. Stetson Company was the largest hat maker in the world, producing some 3.3 million hats a year from a nine-acre Philadelphia plant; that plant closed in 1971. The filing's present tense belongs to its Texas successor: the Stetson hat factory in Garland, Texas - among the largest in the country, producing hats in hundreds of styles and colors - where classic styling and premium quality remain the driving forces. 'Stetson - it's not just a hat, it's the hat.' Since 1987 Stetson hats have been manufactured under license by Hatco, Inc. of Garland, and the Stetson brand itself operates as a licensor from New York, licensing its name across hats and other products while the Garland factory keeps making the hats.
Common Questions
When was Stetson founded?
In 1865, in Philadelphia, by John B. Stetson, who started with $100, a rented room and $10 worth of fur. The 'Boss of the Plains' hat followed in 1866 and made the name.
Who makes Stetson hats today?
Hatco, Inc. of Garland, Texas, which has manufactured Stetson hats under license since 1987. The Stetson brand operates as a licensor based in New York.
How big was the Stetson company at its peak?
The world's largest hat maker: about 3.3 million hats a year from a nine-acre Philadelphia plant, which closed in 1971 - after which production centred on Garland, Texas.
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