Our History

It all started in 1974 when Patrick Truitt met Josh Marlowe on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland and they became instant friends.  Josh introduced Patrick to skateboarding and his life-long love of the sport has continued ever since.  Spurred by Patrick's enthusiastic interest in the sport, his father Dorsey (a race car driver at the time) dove head first into learning everything about skateboards and realized there was a major void in the industry.  He went on to start the world's first skateboard distribution company and helped launch the careers of many of yesterday and today's industry leaders, thus solidifying Patrick and the Truitt Family as one of the founding families of the skateboard products industry.

We moved into deck manufacturing for Kryptonics in 1978, and by 1981 had fully taken over making all Kryptonics skateboards, as their High Energy line.  Over the next few years and throughout the 1980s, we expanded the distribution business worldwide and purchased Brand-X Skateboards from Bernie Tostenson in 1986, and in 1988 we created Toxic Skates, as a spin-off of the PA demo skate group, Team Toxic.

We went on to build Toxic, Brand-X and Kryptonics' High Energy into major, global brands.  Then, in the mid-1990s, we decided to stopped deck manufacturing and focus solely on the distribution business.  Decades later, in 2015, Patrick and his partner Amy, brought back Brand-X, Toxic and High Energy under their company, Brand-X Skateboards. 

Today, Patrick and Amy continue to proudly make these much-loved global brands, plus Sims Wheels, BBC, American Nomad, Kanoa and many others, using the only the highest quality North American products and workmanship, with personalized customer service, and a true love for the industry and skateboarders worldwide.

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