Rainbow Sandals

Rainbow Sandals
Industry Retail
Founded 1975
Founder Jay "Sparky" Longley
Headquarters San Clemente, California, United States
Products Sandals
Website www.rainbowsandals.com
A pair of Rainbow flip flops demonstrating how they conform to the wearer's feet.

Rainbow Sandals Inc. was established in 1974 in Laguna Beach, California by Jay Longley and is currently based in San Clemente, California. The company specializes in men's and women's leather, hemp, and rubber flip-flops.

When Longley first started making sandals, he was assembling 15 pairs per day out of leather and Malaysian rubber in the garage of his Laguna Beach home.[1] He relocated to San Clemente in 1975 and began manufacturing 1,200 pairs of sandals a day. Since 2002, Longley had to move 75% of production to China because of a solvent in the glue he makes. Longley had to install a catalytic oxidizer at his San Clemente factory that scrubs all the volatile organic compounds (VOC) out of the glue before it's emitted into the air. He is legally only allowed to make 1,000 pairs per day in San Clemente. In China, they use a VOC-Free glue. Longley cannot use the VOC-Free glue in California because it is too combustable under the Fire Code. In addition, Longley manufactures sandals in San Clemente, California and in China.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Morning Read: He's caught up in sandal". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  2. ↑ "Rainbows Owner: 3 of 4 Sandals Made in China Because of EPA Regs". patch.com. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  • Official website
  • Edelhauser, Kristin (July 26, 2007). "Staying One Step Ahead". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  • Bellantonio, Jennifer (December 31, 2007). "Rainbow Sandals Goes Upscale; $50M in Sales. APPAREL: Sandal maker counts 80 local workers; more stores due". San Diego Business Journal. Archived from the original on July 21, 2009. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  • Nguyen, Hang (21 Apr 2006). "$7 billion sandal industry is in midst of one of its prime selling seasons". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
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