2015 marks our 10th year of making bobblehead figurines for bobblehead followers around the world. 10 years ago it was more or less a coincidence that Pierre, a french gentleman who found me through search engine, brought me into this business. He asked whether I could custom bobbleheads for him and I said yes,even though I actually had little clue back then. I started out by finding several artists who were hundreds miles away and I sent them Mr. and Mrs. Pierre's photo to test their craftmanship. I selected the one I felt was the best and gave it to Pierre, which eventually became my ticket to enter the bobblehead world. Here was the very 1st bobblehead I ever made.
When I visited the artist who I selected the bobblehead from for the 1st time, I learned that his hometown had, for generations, a reputation of crafting statues. Many of them started such apprenticeship when they were still children. Ironically, most of them didn't really have enough opportunities to use it to make a living. It was then that I made my decision to start the "factory" of handmaking bobblehead, which, in its initial stage, was more like me subcontracting the bobblehead orders from Pierre to them.
I was lucky that the business has expanded tremendously since then. Now we have 100 artists, who in 2014 handcrafted almost 100,000 unique bobblehead figurines for our customers in U.S, Europe and Australia.We have over 20,000 off-the-shelf body styles stocked in our workshop.
While it feels good to see our custom bobblehead figurines purchased by marrying couples for their weddings, sports fans, professionals such as doctors, policemen, firefighter etc, parents for their newborns, and even sport franchises, we have never been recognized by the end customers since we have been selling to only wholesalers. Therefore, in this 10th year anniversary of being in the bobblehead business, we've made a decision to go one step forward, not just limiting ourselves to the wholesaler market but serving directly to our end customers. We believe that with our unparalleled capablity and experience of custom making all kinds of bobbleheads, we can take good care of our end customers as well. In addition, don't forget the cost benefit we can bring to the table given that we are the maker.