About Us

In the early 1960's Bill Sloan was a welder living on a ranch near Saginaw, Texas, just north of Fort Worth.  He built steel gates and steel buildings all around North Texas.  He didn't like having to travel, and was looking for something that he could make at his shop at home. He occasionally made full sized cattle branding irons, and made some miniature versions for his kids to play with.  Sloan had the idea to bend the handle on a small branding iron, attach it with a leather strip to a board and make a door knocker out of it. He took his idea to an advertising man who told him to stick with the miniature branding iron, and Sloan Brands was born. In 1976 the family relocated from Saginaw to Hico, Texas.