A Brief History of Oates Flag
Oates Flag Company was founded in 1945 by Clinton Randolph Oates as a small, family-owned business manufacturing hand-sewn flags. The company is still owned and operated by descendants of the founder who continue the traditions of providing customer service and quality products. The company was incorporated in 1977 and the name was changed to Oates Flag and Specialty Company, Inc. to reflect the growing diversity of the products and services it offers.
Gradually, the product line has grown over the years to encompass a wide assortment of standard and custom flags, banners, pennants, golf flags, cheerleading flags, college banners, and flag-related items such as flag poles and hardware. The company's screen printing, and embroidery services are available to customize T-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, and caps, as well as flags and banners. The addition of ad specialty items such as mugs, key chains, pens (and much more) makes Oates Flag a convenient, single source for advertising and promotional materials.
At Oates Flag, we constantly strive to balance the best of the old and the new. We have one of the few remaining facilities where traditional, skilled operators and sewing machines stand ready to create custom flags and banners, and also make repairs to tattered, but serviceable, flags. But we also embrace technology, such as computer-controlled embroidery machines and computer graphics for our design work, to achieve cost-saving efficiency and higher quality where ever possible. We pioneer the use of the latest high-tech materials (such as Hercules cloth) to make our flags and banners as durable as possible.