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Made in USA
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Tanners’ headquarters is in Hot Springs, Arkansas, nestled in the countryside of America’s
heartland, in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains just a few miles from the natural
thermal baths at Hot Springs National Park. The birthplace of MLB spring training,
Hot Springs is steeped in baseball history, where legends like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby,
Cy Young, Honus Wagner, and Satchel Paige “boiled out” the off-season with hot baths,
ran the mountain roads, played golf, and trained for the baseball season.
Employees at Tanners are proud of their company’s heritage as a “manufacturer.”
While many of the products shown in this catalog are made at factories in Asia, Tanners
maintains a commitment to manufacturing at home and at domestic-based suppliers.
This Asia-plus-USA sourcing flexibility provides Tanners with an important strategic
advantage, allowing the company to deliver the maximum value to customers – especially
when China-made parts or components are processed, assembled, packaged and
converted into finished products in the USA by Tanners.
Visitors to Tanners Hot Springs headquarters enjoy seeing a talented and skilled labor
force involved in a variety of highly efficient in-house manufacturing departments:
Chemical/Filling; Leather and Lace; Cut-N-Sew; Welding/Metal; Labeling/Decorating;
and, Retail Packaging/Assembly. Products manufactured in-house
include baseball glove oil, pine tar, glove laces, relacing kits, glove
wraps, and the new Gorilla-Tee batting tee line. Products also
manufactured in the USA by Tanners partners or divisions include
scorebooks, line-up cards, field towels, bat tape, and eye black.
The combination of Asian and US manufacturing allows Tanners to
deliver the highest quality products possible. This unique flexibility
is uncommon in the sporting goods industry – and it allows Tanners
a unique hedge against price volatility among Asian factories while
keeping customer lead-times and deliveries quicker.

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MADE IN USA