Bollman Hat Company

Bollman Hat Company is an employee-owned American hat maker founded in 1868. Its own heritage page describes it as the oldest hat maker in America, and its founder as George Bollman. The company designs, develops and produces headwear and supplies customers worldwide, and its headwear brand collection includes KANGOL, Bailey, Betmar, Country Gentleman, Eddy Bros. and Helen Kaminski.

Bollman Hat Company traces its beginning to 1868 and names George Bollman as its founder. Its heritage page states that it is the oldest hat maker in America, attributing this to a stewardship culture and a continuous focus on innovation, quality and world-class service. The company is employee-owned, and its heritage page notes that it involves employee-owners and global teammates, sharing success through regular reports, annual ESOP statements and profit-sharing distribution. It reports employee-owners who are the fourth generation of their family to work for the company, many with forty years of service and more, and states that fourteen employees exceeded fifty years with the company. Its headwear brand collection includes KANGOL, Bailey, Betmar, Country Gentleman, Eddy Bros. and Helen Kaminski. The company's own brand page describes it as America's Oldest Hat Factory, notes a Heritage Collection featuring a selected men's and women's hat for each decade since the 1860s, and a Makers' Collection of forty-two hats each named in honor of an employee-owner with more than thirty-five years of service. In 2022 it launched its Trimmed & Crowned brand. It also created a Hall of Fame Collection with Brian Dawkins, a former Philadelphia Eagle, featuring an Elite Woolfelt Fedora and a knit cap; the page notes Dawkins was enshrined into The Headwear Association in 2018, Bollman's 150th year.

Employee-owned American hat maker emphasizing innovation, quality and world-class service; supplier of headwear for warmth, sun protection and style across climates.

• Heritage Collection

  Features a selected men's and women's hat for each decade of the company's existence since the 1860s.

• Makers' Collection

  Forty-two hats each named in honor of an employee-owner with more than thirty-five years of service.

• Trimmed & Crowned

  Brand launched in 2022; hats for men and women trimmed with the world's finest materials.

• Hall of Fame Collection

  Created with Brian Dawkins; features an Elite Woolfelt Fedora and a knit cap.

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