Our History

IBC Worldwide has a long history of manufacturing sporting goods and promotional products for major brands that include Coca-Cola®, Shell Oil, Everlast®, Century Martial Arts®, Powerade, and The Kellogg Company®. The company has been in business since 1972 and has a reputation for innovation and quality in product design and development.

In the early years, IBC developed a line of youth-oriented athletic gear called AIR GAMES. These inflatable sports toys were designed to introduce young children to the basic skills needed before engaging in athletic pursuits with real sports equipment. IBC distributed these products through major sporting goods chains such as Dicks Sporting Goods®, Sports Authority®, and Modell’s Sporting Goods®as well as mass merchandising outlets that included Toys R Us, Walmart, and K-MartSM.

In 2004, IBC brought its product design and manufacturing skills to The Everlast Company to design or re-engineer products such as punching bags, free-standing heavy bags, boxing rings, heavy bag stands, training gloves, and many other items. The IBC design of the freestanding heavy bag in 2004 became the industry standard of today.

In 2016, IBC began focusing on Youth Athletics by turning its attention to the need to promote safety through hydration for the more than 44-million kids in the USA involved in youth athletic team sports, which gave impetus to the development of a TeamSafe Gear sports store.