Ron Tchorzewski
Escondido, CA (USA)
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Rizor Sports
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Location:
Escondido
Industry:
Apparel
Year Founded:
2002
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
Rizor Sports is a California-based athletic footwear & apparel company that manufactures high-quality footwear and apparel products for a highly overlooked niche category, which is an annual $16 billion industry with over 24 million female participants annually in the USA and Canada alone.
Since founding Rizor Sports in September 2005, our company has developed a very unique high quality cleated footwear product, and have successfully tested our products with customers in every USA state as well as Canada, Sweden, Germany, China and Australia. Feedback on our product quality, durability, comfort and customer service has been 100% positive with numerous written testimonials.
Business Opportunity - Because Rizor Sport's business model was designed with team sports in mind, the typical customer will be high schools, middle schools, colleges and universities that have school teams, winter and summer travel teams and organizations, and all individual category players and their parents. Additional customers will be individual city recreational league players, which range from age 6 through age 90. Currently, there is no footwear manufacturer that designs and develops a girl's 3 way interchangeable cleated footwear product specifically with female biomechanics in mind. For our competitors that do offer girl's cleated footwear products, they manufacture their products with boy’s/men’s baseball shoes midsole/outsole molds and boy’s/men’s lasts. Only two of Rizor Sports' competitors offer more than 4 colors, which the customer must order months in advance, either from a team sporting goods store or via the internet. No competitor offers a 3-way interchangeable cleated model for the female player that allows its customers the option of using metal, TPU (plastic) or turf cleats. In addition, only one other competitor currently offers an optional protective "rubber toe" model.
Product / Service Description - Our flagship product is unique and is a one of a kind product in our target category. While all other companies manufacture their all of their cleated footwear products with the use of boy’s/men’s lasts and molds, we are the only company that manufactures our cleated footwear products with the use of standard USA women’s cross training lasts and molds that are correct for female biomechanics. In addition, while our competitors all use a synthetic leather material upper, our product is the only one manufactured using real action leather uppers with a triple coated polyurethane surface. It is also available in 11 team colors and 4 optional models. Our flagship footwear product is the only 3-way interchangeable cleated product available in our targeted category as we are the only company that manufactures a cleated footwear product that meets or exceeds all league rules for allowable cleated footwear.