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, helping 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.  Then, 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.  Decades later in 2015, Patrick and his partner Amy, took over Brand-X, Toxic and Kryptonics' High Energy, and now handle all manufacturing and distribution under their company, Brand-X Skateboards. 

Today, Patrick and Amy continue to proudly make these much-loved global brands, plus many others, like Sims, BBC, American Nomad, Kanoa.  They work with only USA-based manufacturing partners, and use only the finest quality North American products and workmanship...together, with personalized customer service, and a true love for the industry and skateboarders worldwide.

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