14 Best Wholesale Surfboard Suppliers [2024 Edition]

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

If you're considering starting a business, a critical piece will be to find the best wholesale supplier or manufacturer for your surfboard business.

After interviewing thousands of founders, we've identified that finding a manufacturer online for your surfboard business is one of the most difficult parts to starting a business, and often times, where entrepreneurs find themselves hitting a brick wall.

The main reason for this is that there are so many options out there and finding the best wholesale supplier, manufacturer or distributer for your surfboard business can be a challenge.

In this post, we've found and vetted the best wholesale suppliers and manufacturers for your surfboard business to simplify the outreach process for you.

Additionally, we provide you with each wholesale supplier and manufacturers:

Location
Number of Employees
Annual Revenue
Year Established

At the end of this article, we provide you with the top sourcing and outreach tips when looking for your wholesale supplier.

Top Suppliers And Manufacturers For Your Surfboard Business

As promised, we've vetted the 14 best wholesale surfboard suppliers [2024 edition].

Here they are:

#1: Malibu Boats

Malibu Boats: The World’s Best Wakesurfing, Wakeboarding & Water Skiing Towboats, #1 in Quality, Luxury & Performance

Location: California
Country: United States
Employees: 500
Year Founded: 1982

Learn more at their website ➜

#2: Kamin & Associates, Inc.

Kamin & Associates Inc from Atlanta GA USA Looking for promotional products, advertising specialties and business gifts? You've come to the right site! Whether you are looking for a specific item or just browsing for ideas, our site is your one-stop source.

Location: Georgia
Country: United States
Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1981

Learn more at their website ➜

#3: Hobie

Browse our line of hands-free MirageDrive kayaks, paddle kayaks and catamaran sailboats.

Location: Virginia
Country: United States
Employees: 1
Year Founded: 2000

Learn more at their website ➜

#4: Old Modern Handicrafts

Learn more at their website ➜

Learn more about starting a surfboard business:

Where to start?

-> How to start a surfboard business?
-> How much does it cost to start a surfboard business?
-> Pros and cons of a surfboard business

Need inspiration?

-> Other surfboard business success stories
-> Examples of established surfboard business
-> Marketing ideas for a surfboard business
-> Surfboard business slogans
-> Surfboard business names

Other resources

-> Surfboard business tips

#6: Universal Foam Products

Employees: 10
Year Founded: 2009

Learn more at their website ➜

#7: Blue Planet Surf Shop

Blue Planet Surf is Hawaii’s largest SUP and Foil shop. We offer new and used boards, rentals, foils, surfboards, Stand Up Paddleboards and surf accessories.

Learn more at their website ➜

#8: Nomad Surf Shop

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1968

Learn more at their website ➜

#9: Fletcher Chouinard Designs

Learn more at their website ➜

#10: ZGlassing

Z Glassing offers Professional Fiberglass Services in South Florida boat repairs, fiberglass molds & components of advanced composites. Call (954) 520-5754.

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1974

Learn more at their website ➜

#11: The Granger Plastics Co.

Employees: 50
Year Founded: 1994

Learn more at their website ➜

#12: Wainman Hawaii

Learn more at their website ➜

#13: Linden Surfboards

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1978

Learn more at their website ➜

#14: Capital Advanced Technologies Inc

Interconnect ABC's. Adapters, Breadboards, Custom Circuits. Breadboard, Adapter, and Prototype Products for Surface Mount and leaded through hole technologies.Information on SMT and the use of SMD's in circuit test and development.

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1980

Learn more at their website ➜

#15: EPS Foam Center

Year Founded: 2007

Learn more at their website ➜

Database Of Top 16 Wholesale Suppliers and Manufacturers For Your Surfboard Business

Below we put together a summary of the top 16 wholesale suppliers and manufacturers for your surfboard business.

#	Name	Location	Year Est.
1	Malibu Boats	California	1982
2	Kamin & Associates, Inc.	Georgia	1981
3	Hobie	Virginia	2000
4	Old Modern Handicrafts
5	Universal Foam Products		2009
6	Blue Planet Surf Shop
7	Nomad Surf Shop		1968
8	Fletcher Chouinard Designs
9	ZGlassing		1974
10	The Granger Plastics Co.		1994
11	Wainman Hawaii
12	Linden Surfboards		1978
13	Capital Advanced Technologies Inc		1980
14	EPS Foam Center		2007

Guide: How To Find A Manufacturer And Supplier For Your Surfboard Business

Before you reach out to suppliers and manufacturers for your surfboard business, it's important that you are fully prepared and have done your due diligence.

We've outlined a few tips to help give you a better understanding of what you. may be looking for, which will make your outreach process much more seamless.

Tips For Finding A Supplier And Manufacturer For Your Surfboard Business

Know Your Product Idea Inside And Out

One critical step to finding the right supplier is having an initial idea of what your design/product will look like.

Sketching is one of the most simple ways to get started in the design phase.

What's great about sketching is that you can practically do this anytime, anywhere - even on the back of a napkin.

To get started, all you need to do is pick up a pen and paper and start drawing - or if you are working on a virtual/software product this can be a diagram that outlines the user interface or experience.

Decide what type of supplier you want

You'll want to identify the type of supplier you are looking for.

Here are some questions you may want to ask yourself prior to searching for a supplier

Are you looking for a manufacturer to produce your product idea?
Do you want to find a supplier that can simply purchase existing products for you?
Do you want a drop-shipper to supply and fulfill orders?
Do you want a domestic supplier or an overseas supplier? Read more about the pros and cons of each here

How To Reach Out To Suppliers For Your Surfboard Business

Once you've found one or multiple suppliers, your next step will be to approach them.

Crafting the right message with the necessary details can help your chances of receiving a response with all the information you need.

Here are a few important questions to consider asking in your message:

What is your minimum order quantity?
What is your turnaround time?
What are your payment terms?
What is your sample pricing?
What is your production pricing?

Suppliers are bombarded with hundreds of requests every day, the majority of people simply shopping around to get the best quote. It's common for suppliers to take their time responding or not respond at all if they feel the request or message isn't legitimate or worth their time.

To avoid this happening, keep your message clear, concise and high level. You can always go into more detail in the second or third email with the supplier.

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Pat Walls

I'm Pat Walls and I created Starter Story - a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. We interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started and grew their businesses.

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