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Our Story
The Secret is in the Sauce
It began with barbeque sauce. Our long-time family recipe for barbeque sauce was so good that we all agreed we should bottle and sell it. Our fantasy found fuel when, one glorious autumn day, on a drive through the mountains of southern Colorado, we spotted our ranch. With its massive entrance gate of huge timbers topped with a gigantic set of carved wooden longhorns, the ranch beckoned us. "That's the ranch we will buy when we sell our delicious barbeque sauce," we thought. We decided we would name our ranch Tuxedo Ranch, a kind of upscale yet down-home feeling - much like our sauce - which would offer something for everyone's palette.
Our foray into the gourmet food market was shorter-lived than expected, however. The little guy just can't compete with General Foods for space in the grocery store. The last straw was when we were advised to water our recipe down to make it affordable - compromising our product was not an option. Sadly it was the idea, not the barbeque sauce, that was shelved for the time being.
Ever the entrepreneurial types, we explored our options. As a family of artists, we thought about connecting our extended network of artists and craftsmen with corporate buyers seeking wonderful and unusual gifts and awards. We discovered that many companies have a need for more common promotional items, such as logoed pens and apparel. So we decided to put our twist on the industry, taking the uncommon approach to supplying the common product by putting time, thought, and creativity into our client's needs and orders. And if they needed a brand overhaul, we could do that too. And like that we were in the business, and we already had a name! Thus was born Tuxedo Ranch, providers of custom promotional products and apparel. The name has served us well, and our customers and suppliers seldom forget us because of it. Clients large and small now rely on Tuxedo Ranch for meaningful custom product solutions and creative ideas.