The company also sells shirts, pants, jeans, shorts, jackets, caps, backpacks, and other accessories. DC Shoes experienced explosive growth during the mids and remained one of skateboarding's top brands.
It has been able to successfully gain nationwide, mall-based distribution while keeping hard-core skateboarders loyal by offering exclusive designs through skate shops only. In , at the age of 22, Ken Block, a snowboarder, began creating a line of screen-printed T-shirts that would become the Eightball brand. He honed his computer design skills at Palomar Community College in San Marcos, California, where he met a skateboarding schoolmate, Damon Way, in an algebra class a few years later.
Way helped find stores to sell Eightball clothes. Way's brother, Danny Way, became one of the first pro skateboarders to endorse the line. Way and Block contracted another fellow student, Aaron Lovejoy, to screen-print T-shirts.
Eightball's unique designs proved instantly popular with skate shops. They turned to a friend's father, Clay Blehm, for advice in financing their explosive growth. Blehm was then an unemployed accountant who had launched several businesses during his career. These included a childcare center and Christmas tree business. As the company grew, Blehm was named chief financial officer. Block was the company's president and CEO.
The success of Eightball led to the creation of the Droors "drawers" brand of jeans in On October 3, , the business was incorporated as Circus Distribution, Inc. The Eightball brand was retired at least in the United States after someone else claimed ownership of the name in In , Way launched a footwear line, DC Shoes, named, according to one version of the story, after the first initials of Danny Way and that of another pro, Colin McKay another version has it standing for "Droors Clothing Shoes".
The company contracted Vans, then Etnies to produce the first shipments of shoes before settling on a Korean manufacturer, the Samil Tong Sang Company. Designed, tested and inspired by our pro skate and snow teams, DC products are geared towards supporting the needs of our top pros, but with the everyday athlete in mind. This is where style meets performance.
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