varsity brands . owned by investment firm charlesbank industry school services and recognition products founded january 6 1920 headquarters indianapolis indiana key people harry j. herff founder randall h. jones founder tom tanton president 1 herff jones jeff webb ceo varsity brands 2 products caps & gowns choir robes diplomas announcements championship and class rings yearbooks number of employees 4 000 employees and 700 sales representatives website herff jones official site herff jones manufactures and sells educational recognition and achievement products and motivational materials and has been in continuous operation since 1920 . herff jones maintains production facilities across the united states as well as in canada and has a network of over 700 sales representatives . history edit harry j. herff and randall h. jones founded herff jones in indianapolis indiana on january 6 1920 . the company manufactured insignia jewelry and class rings . 1 1973 herff jones was bought by carnation company and operated as a division of that company for 11 years . 1 1985 herff jones bought their assets and liabilities from the carnation company and became an independent company . 1 1989 established an employee stock ownership plan esop becoming a 100 % employee owned company by 1995 . 2 2011 sold the photography division to lifetouch . july 2011 herff jones completed an acquisition of varsity brands . 3 june 2013 herff jones acquired bsn sports . june 2014 entire enterprise rebranded to become varsity brands naming jeff webb as ceo . july 2014 education division s nystrom brand was sold to social studies school service a social studies company in california . september 2014 the assets of replogle globes part of the education division were sold to replogle globes partners llc . december 2014 varsity brands was acquired by an investment group led by charlesbank capital partners . this led to the buyout of the esop shares with distribution to eligible employee owners . of note edit the heisman trophy and harlon hill trophy for college football . 4 since 2005 produced the wuerffel trophy given annually to a college football player who makes a difference . since 1983 herff jones has produced the indianapolis 500 winner s ring . 5 in july 2007 herff jones was chosen by indianapolis colts owner jim irsay to produce the super bowl rings for super bowl xli . 6 starting with the 2008 2009 school year herff jones working with adobe and other tools released a completely online solution to yearbook production edesign . the software allows users to upload and organize their photo libraries in addition to designing page layouts . 7 8 9 in july 2009 herff jones introduced a new line of classkeeper graduation gowns produced from renew fabric that are made from recycled post consumer plastic bottles . 10 since 2002 produced nba all star rings . produced championship rings for all five of the san antonio spurs nba championships . since 1999 produced rings for the national football foundation hall of fame inductees . references edit a b c about herff jones . herff jones yearbook division . http www.ibj.com herff jones completes varsity brands acquisition params article 28616 the history of the harlon hill trophy . smith jeff 2008 05 24 . indy 500 race countdown begins with public drivers meeting . retrieved 2008 11 25 . chapell mike 2007 06 13 . colts receive super bowl rings in private ceremony . usa today . ikard sarah . herff jones fuses desktop publishing with the web using adobe based technology . edesign . scott eidler 26 june 2012 . more school yearbooks adding online content . newsday . retrieved 16 january 2014 . herff jones expands go green regalia efforts with recycled gowns . 2009 07 07 . dead link this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title herff jones & oldid 742995492 categories companies established in 1920manufacturing companies based in indianapolis indianaunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from april 2010all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 03 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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