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Q:How did you come up with the idea of selling affordable shades?Ī:When I was in college, I had a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. The brand is sold in 35 brick-and-mortar stores in places such as Coronado and La Jolla as well as New York City, San Francisco, Spain and Thailand.īelow, Moyer, 34, chats about how he came up with the business idea, how he markets the brand and its custom and limited-edition sunglasses. In the last few years, Knockaround has also been mentioned in GQ Magazine, Cosmopolitan and InStyle and was written up by The Washington Post because Moyer grew up in Virginia. The company has added eight employees since 2010 and today has 18 workers. Where to buy locally: Island Surf Shop in Coronado, Shade Shack in La Jolla and OB Surf & Skate in Ocean Beach What it sells: Its core products are sunglasses but it also sells T-shirts, shorts, sweatshirts and hats. Moyer declined to provide more recent financial figures for the privately held company. It was ranked as the 10th fastest-growing company in the city of San Diego, according to a 2014 list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies by Inc. That was nine times its revenue of about $630,000 in 2010. That same year, Knockaround posted $5.7 million in revenue. The current company digs span 12,000 square feet. In 2013, it moved to its current office and warehouse in downtown San Diego that’s in walking distance to Petco Park. Knockaround then expanded to a 2,200-square-foot office in National City. In 2008 when Moyer was running Knockaround out of his one-car garage, the business got some press play in a short fashion segment on the “Today” show. But like so many things in life, persistence pays off.” It was fun, but I wasn’t exactly crushing it. “I was packing a few orders a week and selling sunglasses, $5 at a time, to undergrads on campus.

The first “few years proved to be a little, um, slow,” said founder and CEO Adam Moyer, who attended graduate school at UC San Diego shortly after he started Knockaround. But it took a while before the business, founded in 2005, took off. Its best-selling shades are priced from $10 to $30 and customers on average order two pairs.

#KNOCK AROUND MOVIE#

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