70+ years in business. 11+ acquisitions. Featured by Good Morning America, RF-SMART, the Jacksonville Business Journal, and more. Here's where we've made our mark.
HC Brands partnered with RF-SMART for NetSuite to transform warehouse operations across two facilities, nine websites, and three eCommerce platforms — driving an estimated $100,000 in annual financial impact.
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Bryan Croft's success plan is a science: sell the right products, market them in appealing ways, and create an atmosphere where people want to work and plan to stay.
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When NASA called Simply Stamps via SEO, Bryan Croft and his team engineered a precision rubber stamp — reducing weight by 80% across 10 prototype iterations — that flew aboard the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit on Artemis II.
Listen to the podcastCEO Bryan Croft on the "Great Question" manufacturing podcast: engineering challenges, exacting NASA requirements, and how SEO landed Simply Stamps a job aboard the Orion spacecraft.
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Full 26-minute podcast: Bryan Croft walks through the NASA project from the customer service ticket that started it, through 10 iterations of weight-reduction engineering, to Kennedy Space Center.
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Part of the U.S. Chamber's year-long series celebrating American small businesses. Bryan Croft on alignment, precision, and turning a 70-year-old family stamp shop into a NASA contributor.
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Action News Jax's hometown coverage of Simply Stamps' NASA project — including how Jacksonville employees watched the Artemis II launch from their own backyard knowing their work was aboard the rocket.
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Official press release distribution of the Simply Stamps NASA Artemis II partnership, picked up nationally.
Read the press release →HC Brands sold its longtime St. Augustine Road office building for ~$3.4 million to a Miami-based investor, leasing back 30,000 sq ft for three years while searching for a permanent location.
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Host Randall Thomas sits down with Bryan Croft to explore the transformation of a legacy rubber stamp business into an e-commerce powerhouse — covering EOS implementation, AI adoption, and digital transformation.
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The Jacksonville Business Journal honors technology leaders whose work has helped local organizations grow, deal with challenges, and shape the future. Congrats to the 2023 class.
Read more →HC Brands acquires StickyLife.com, a niche personalized products company specializing in customized stickers and magnets.
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Industry trade pickup of the StickyLife acquisition — gaining access to StickyLife's customized stickers and magnets capabilities and welcoming co-founder Natalee Fisher to the team.
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HC Brands opens a new manufacturing center in West Chester, Pennsylvania and hires seasoned leaders.
Read more →HC Brands CEO Bryan Croft's neighborhood-restoration effort moves forward: TVC Development contracts to buy the 3036 Philips Highway parcel for a 172-unit workforce housing community.
Read more →UK enterprise tech publication covers HC Brands' NetSuite implementation — international press pickup of the company's e-commerce and manufacturing platform transformation.
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Bryan Croft on growing the family business from a $1M operation to a $25M e-commerce manufacturer — acquisitions, scaling, and the playbook behind it.
Listen to the episode →Small businesses across the US continue to open their doors after weathering harsh business impacts from COVID-19.
Read more →"NetSuite is a premier Business Management Solution for mid-size e-commerce and manufacturing companies," says Owner and CFO Steve Fernandez.
Read more →Bryan Croft on how the pandemic put his 66-year-old company into survival mode — and how HC Brands pivoted to make it through. "We are going to get through this but we have to survive now."
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HC Brands establishes education and scholarship opportunities to give back to the Jacksonville community.
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Simply Stamps teamed with Trodat to give away 2,000 free hand-washing stamps to teachers nationwide, encouraging healthier habits in schools.
Read more →Brandi Preston joins as Vice President of Fulfillment and Logistics, and Jodi Bibler joins as Vice President of Product & Merchandising.
Read more →Seventh acquisition in three years: Holmes Custom buys Maryland-based WallMonkeys, a wall decal manufacturer and e-commerce retailer.
Read more →Holmes Custom continues its growth streak with the acquisition of WallMonkeys.com, a manufacturer and retailer of peel-and-stick wall decals.
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Holmes Custom, in business 65 years, acquires Maryland-based WallMonkeys.com — a manufacturer of peel-and-stick wall decals for homes and businesses.
Read more →After 65 years in Jacksonville, Holmes Custom is on an upswing — transformed into a bustling operation with three fulfillment centers across the country.
Read more →For 25+ years, the Jacksonville Business Journal has tracked companies that boomed in both good times and bad. HC Brands makes the 2019 list.
Read more →Jax Daily Record's executive profile of Bryan Croft — UNF grad, bought the company from his parents in 2009 under a 15-year mortgage, expanded into Austin and Massachusetts, deeply involved in Haiti180 nonprofit work.
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Experts share the business philosophies that guide their decisions. Bryan Croft makes the list with HC Brands' approach to staying focused.
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Bryan shares how Holmes Custom grew from a pre-Internet local stamp business to a national e-commerce site with 100+ employees across three cities.
Listen to the episode →Holmes Custom acquires Capitol Rubber Stamp (Austin, TX) and Frost Manufacturing (Worcester, MA), plus 3 acres of Jacksonville commercial property.
Read more →Lee Pinkerton joins as Chief Customer Officer and Jim Gruhn as Chief Technology Officer. "We are already a strong team — Lee and Jim put us in a very strong position," says CEO Bryan Croft.
Read the press release →Holmes Custom acquires Michigan-based Blue Water Engraving and Rubber Stamps, originally founded in 1970 as Pontiac Stamp, Stencil and Typesetting.
Read the press release →Holmes Stamp and Sign rebrands as Holmes Custom, reflecting expansion from stamps and signs into an array of customized products.
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Tory Johnson features Holmes Custom's personalized pet bowls on Good Morning America — driving $45,000 in pet bowl sales in just two days.
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Bryan Croft calls his company "a 63-year-old startup." A small local stamp shop transformed by a full embrace of the internet and e-commerce.
Read more →Holmes Custom acquires The Corporate Connection, a Salem, MA-based e-commerce company producing notary supplies and corporate seals.
Read more →"We are so much more than stamps and signs," says CEO Bryan Croft as Holmes Stamp and Sign rebrands to Holmes Custom.
Read the press release →Rapid online sales growth drives Holmes Stamp and Sign to add jobs at an unprecedented pace — five full-time hires in less than a month.
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