Sunday, 7 November 2010

New Era Cap, More Than A Cap

There are a lot of hip-pop, R&B celebrities and fashionable people are wearing New Era Hats no matter the occasion is. We can also see that numerous international famous brands are in cooperation with New Era brand to launch joint products. New Era not only merely represents a hat brand.
Ehrhardt Koch founded the E Koch Cap Co. with only 14 staff in Buffalo New York in 1920, and changed its name to New Era in 1922. In 1932, the company designed their first baseball caps versions, then abtained the exclusive licence, beginning to supply Cleveland Indians professional baseball caps. This is their first speaical supplying team. In the 40th of the twentieth century, New Era hat has become a dedicated hat for many professional baseball teams. And it immediately carried out a fierce competition with Wilson, Spalding, Rawlings and other brands. In the late 1940s, New Era mainly manufactured caps that wearers can change its size. Until 1954, they redesigned their caps’ appearance and color with Brooklyn style and then named it 59 Fifty. In 1965, nfl hats had been able to provide team hat for ten baseball union teams. In 1969, New Era designed the special full closure hat. In 1974, New Era provided specially the team hat for 20 to 24 professional baseball union teams. In the early 1980s, New Era not only can provide eam cap for 23 Major League Baseball Team, also received a large number of orders from the school, the local businesses, the International baseball teams, golf and so on.
In 1986, New Era promoted a hat type named MLB Diamond Collection to American professional baseball union teams and sold it to the public. This activity got much successful. It was even became a popular trend that no matter what clothes you wore, you also could wore a New Era Caps. In 1993, New Era Hats completely defeated its main competitors and was granted special certificates for the manufacturers by the U.S. Major League Baseball.
Spike Lee, a famous America black director, personally asked New Era to design a entire red baseball cap with writing “New York Yankees” in white, what made New Era more famous. Among all people (adults, males, and women) from different walks on the streets of USA, you could see New Era cap.
In 2006, New Era Cap Company moved its headquarters from Buffalo's suburbs to downtown area. In the same year in May New Era Cap Company opened the first flagship store in the SOHO district in New York City. In November of the same year the second flagshi March in 2007, New Era not only made stringent requirement of design, but also bravely innovated. On cap materials, on the basis of using 100% pure wool, the company has also introduced the excellent performance of 100% polyester as a raw material. This also standed for their first major change on the traditional process of hats after 20 years. In the spring of 2007, The third flagship store was opened in London. On August of same year, Their flagship stores were opened one by one in Toronto, Queen Street, Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Japan, Korea and so on.
Since 1996 when New Era hat appeared in the film of the famous director Spike Lee, New Era has entered people’s life not only as a commodity but also as a culture and a big fashion trend.

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