Black Box Distribution
Black Box Distribution is a skateboard distributor owned by professional skateboarder Jamie Thomas. It serves 4 companies, 3 are owned by Thomas; Fallen Footwear, Mystery Skateboards, and Zero Skateboards. Slave Skateboards (styled as $lave Skateboards) is owned by Ben Horton. Black Box also owns Cinco Maderas, a Mexico based woodshop that manufactures the decks for Mystery, Slave and Zero. In 2006 Jamie Thomas won an Ernst & Young regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award as president of Black Box. In early 2010 Jamie Thomas began distributing Insight clothing through Black Box.[1]
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[edit] Fallen Footwear
Fallen Footwear is a skate footwear company. Originally it was a partnership between Thomas and DC Shoes. When DC was purchased by Quiksilver, Thomas chose not to sell Fallen and moved the brand to Black Box.[2]
Current Team Riders
- Jamie Thomas
- Tony Cervantes
- Josh Harmony
- Tommy Sandoval
- Billy Marks
- Garrett Hill
- James Hardy
- Brian "Slash" Hansen
- Tom Asta
- Liam Aylward
- Anthony Schultz
[edit] Zero Skateboards
Zero Skateboards started as an apparel line when Thomas was riding for Toy Machine and blossomed into a full skateboard company. Current Team includes
- Jamie Thomas
- Chris Cole
- Tommy Sandoval
- James Brockman
- Jamie Tancowny
- Tony Cervantes
- John Rattray
- Keegan Sauder
- Garrett Hill
- Elissa Steamer
- Sheldon Meleshinski
- Dane Burman
- Ben Gilley
- Liam Aylward
[edit] Mystery Skateboards
Mystery Skateboards is the sister company to Zero Skateboards and produces skate decks. Current Team includes
- Ryan Bobier
- Jimmy Carlin
- Ryan Smith
- Pete Eldrige
- Windsor James
- Dennis Durrant
- Tom Asta
- Sascha Daley
- Trevor Colden
- David Reyes
