nasdaq ravn industry aerospace and defense agriculture founded february 11 1956 sioux falls south dakota us founder j.r. smith ed yost duwayne thon joseph kaliszewki headquarters sioux falls south dakota us area served worldwide key people daniel a. rykhus president & ceo steven brazones cfo stephanie herseth sandlin vp & general counsel former u.s. representative 1 revenue us 378m 2015 2 operating income us 44m 2015 2 net income us 32m 2015 2 total assets us 363m 2015 2 total equity us 305m 2015 2 subsidiaries applied technology engineered films raven aerostar . website raven industries raven industries nasdaq ravn is a u.s manufacturer of plastic electronic and special apparel products headquartered in sioux falls south dakota . the company was established in 1956 to make commercial and recreational hot air balloons . after its establishment the company s product offerings expanded to include items such as large plastic storage containers for use in agriculture and ski pants . today raven aims to solve great challenges by making polyethylene sheeting to help protect the environment precision agriculture equipment to help feed a growing world population and aerostats to provide situational awareness to help save lives . the u.s. military and other government agencies are among its clients and it was launched by a group of general mills employees including general mills high altitude research division employee ed yost . 3 4 besides us department of defense raven industries has other big name customers such as google . 5 references edit ravn profile a b c d e raven industries inc. 10 k . 1 ravn profile yahoo finance http ravenaerostar.com solutions aerospace project loon balloons further reading edit ceo interview raven industries wall street transcript october 24 1994 . meyer harvey underdog a military contractor spreads its wings journal of business strategy september 19 1997 . palmer jay raven industries enjoys ballooning business barron s august 17 1992 p. 14 . raven industries implement and tractor january 11 1996 . raven industries acquires norcore plastics tank & technology composite news february 10 1997 . raven industries outlook dow jones news service august 12 1983 . raven industries sees net up strongly in 4th quarter dow jones news service november 25 1983 . slovak julianne raven industries fortune may 21 1990 . raven aerostar news http ravenaerostar.com news . external links edit official raven industries page twitter feed official webpage of raven applied technology a division of raven industries official webpage of raven aerostar a division of raven industries official webpage of raven engineered films a division of raven industries 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 raven industries & oldid 731701301 categories companies based in sioux falls south dakotacompanies established in 1956manufacturing companies based in south dakotaplastics companiescompanies listed on nasdaqunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories all 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 27 july 2016 at 00 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view