- Apparel & Merchandise
Blue Ridge Pennant
Blue Ridge Pennant makes hand-cut, hand-sewn pennants and felt flags from 100% wool felt, crafted in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains. It offers in-stock designs as well as custom pennants, and partners with retailers, camps, and events on flexible custom wholesale options. Camp-branded felt pennants serve as souvenirs, cabin decor, and reunion keepsakes.
- Apparel & Merchandise
C.C. Creations
C.C. Creations is one of the largest custom screen-printing and embroidery companies in the country, founded in 1982 in Bryan, Texas and headquartered in College Station. It offers apparel, promotional products, signs, banners, and trophies across five divisions, including a 210,000 sq ft production campus opened in 2023-2024. Camp is one of several served segments, alongside Greek/collegiate, corporate, and construction, with a dedicated camp buying guide for custom camper apparel.
- Apparel & Merchandise
Crazy Creek
Crazy Creek Products has made packable, lightweight outdoor camp chairs and pads since 1987 from its home base in Red Lodge, Montana. Built from ripstop nylon and closed-cell foam with a lifetime defect warranty, the chairs are camp, paddling, and bleacher staples and the company runs a repair program to keep used chairs out of landfills. It sells direct and through outdoor retailers like REI.
- Apparel & Merchandise
Crown Awards
Crown Awards is described as America's largest awards manufacturer, founded by Chuck Weisenfeld in 1978 and headquartered in a 250,000-square-foot facility in Hawthorne, New York with roughly 150 retail stores. It makes trophies, medals, plaques, ribbons, pins, and crystals across hundreds of sports and activities, with same-day shipping on in-stock items. Camps use it for banquet awards, color-war and competition medals, and end-of-session recognition.
- Facilities & Equipment
Everything Summer Camp
Everything Summer Camp is the retail brand of C&N Manufacturing, Inc. (C&N Footlockers), a Boyd, WI company founded in 1987. It sells summer-camp gear — steel and soft camp trunks (which it manufactures), duffels, bedding, camping gear, name labels, apparel, and accessories — plus personalization, lifetime trunk repair, and a personal-shopper service.
- Apparel & Merchandise
Jostens – The Mascot Shop
The Mascot Shop is a Jostens offering that provides custom apparel, t-shirts, and spirit/merchandise products. For camps, it is a source of branded clothing and merchandise. It is part of Jostens, a long-established national company best known for school yearbooks, rings, and graduation and spirit products.
- Apparel & Merchandise
LabelDaddy
LabelDaddy makes personalized, durable name labels for kids' belongings, used by camps and camp-family programs to cut down on lost items. It partners with organizations such as US Sports Camps to provide branded camper labels. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Apparel & Merchandise
Mabel's Labels
Mabel's Labels is the best-known brand of durable, waterproof peel-and-stick name labels for kids' belongings at camp, school, and daycare. Founded in 2003 by four mothers out of a basement in Hamilton, Ontario, it grew into a market-leading e-commerce business and runs a popular fundraising program for camps and schools. Its labels are designed to survive laundry, dishwashers, and the camp lost-and-found pile.
- Apparel & Merchandise
MinistryGear
MinistryGear is a custom screen-printing company focused specifically on churches and ministries, producing church T-shirts and apparel with free design and shipping. It markets itself as built by people who understand church work, aiming to simplify ordering for pastors and ministry leaders. Its church focus makes it relevant to faith-based and church camp programs.
- Apparel & Merchandise
Twinkle
Twinkle Ink provides custom apparel, t-shirts, and printing and graphics services for camps and groups. The company produces branded clothing and printed merchandise used for camp staff, campers, and events.
- Apparel & Merchandise
UV Skinz
UV Skinz is a sun-protective apparel company based in Sonora, California, making UPF 50+ clothing and swimwear that blocks 98% of UVA/UVB rays for the whole family. Founded in 2006 by CEO Rhonda Sparks after she lost her husband to melanoma, it pairs its product line with skin-cancer awareness advocacy and carries the Skin Cancer Foundation's Seal of Recommendation. It runs a Camp Partner program offering camps roughly 50% off retail and customization.
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Nothing above compares these companies to each other, because a directory entry is not a basis for that comparison. What it is good for is knowing who exists. Each company's listing shows who it says it works with, in its own words, and any questions it has answered in public. Start there, then ask the two or three of them the questions your own year actually turns on.
Last updated 11 October 2026. Companies are listed alphabetically; the order carries no meaning.