History

Western Badge & Button Company (founded 1912) resulted from a spin-off of the hot stamping department of an awing company. In the early days, genuine gold foil was used in hot stamping (ribbons of that era are museum pieces of value today.) The original press (made in 1902) is still on the premises.

After World War II, the company changed it's name to Western Badge & Trophy Company, and expanded into the awards business, which blossomed through the phenomena of wartime awareness of recreation. A new factory was built in the early fifties, and during the sixties several small acquisitions were made, including the opening of a branch store in Orange County(Anaheim) in 1966. Having outgrown the manufacturing space, WB&T acquired the present 24,000 square foot facility in 1973, in 1978 made the major acquisition of Seal-in Plastic Company.

In 1985, Western Badge & Trophy Company entered into the promotional products market. It quickly established itself as an industry leader, developing an outstanding reputation for custom, locally made, high quality products with quick turn-around.

Western Badge & Trophy kicked off the new millennium by obtaining an additional 20,000 square foot facility. This structure enabled WB&T to nearly double production capacity for its ever-growing line of identification, awards & specialty items. In addition it made more room for the assembly, packaging (vacuum form, blister pack, shrink wrap, polybagging, skin wrap, R.f. sealing, P.O.P. displays, custom polypropylene packaging design) Direct Mail and Direct Import services WB&T offers.

Since its conception 91 years ago, Western Badge & Trophy has rooted itself in the West Coast business community. It has grown with the times by branching out to related fields and continues to blossom year-after-year well into our present 21th century.