I was making my rounds the other day when I heard some exciting news: We got some of the Gold Sparkle series in earlier than expected and we’re already getting it out the door, so if you had ordered the Teardrop, Trapper or Peanut patterns, expect it to be coming your way soon. Sorry Cheetah […]
You know, this job has a lot of questions that come along with it. Part of the territory. A question that actually gave me pause the other day seemed like it would have such a simple answer that I actually started to doubt myself on my confidence. So, I did some research to make […]
Case came out with a new series close to heart for them: the Family Brand series. The factory has been around for a long time and, due to that, its seen a fair share of different names and brands under its roof, like branches in a family tree, if you will. You could write a book on […]
Zippo lost someone important on Sunday. Sara Blaisdell Dorn passed away at the Bradford Regional Medical Center at the age of 88. Starting in 1950, Sara was heavily involved in Zippo’s legacy and after her father’s death in 1978, both her and her sister Harriet Wick assumed ownership of the company, and Sara guided it […]
History has been filled with necessity and ingenuity, two things that, when together, are the mother and father of invention. You can see this throughout the generations with even as something as simple as paper. The history of putting ideas on paper is as old as civilization itself, from clay tablets of antiquity detailing receipts […]
Got a one-two punch here today. Figured what better way to start the first blog of the year than by talking about two grand states; Georgia and North Carolina. When Georgia springs to mind, I think of one of two things: The Devil going down there and Charles Daniels beating him in an honorable fiddle […]