Vaccine tumbler by EcoGoatDesigns. Photograph: EcoGoatDesigns/Etsy
Manuel Rojas, the head of sales at Foam Party Hats, said: “During last year our business was greatly affected by the pandemic, our main source of revenue is big parties and weddings [and] our sales decreased greatly.” He said that in order to keep making sales and pay their employees they came up with the idea for a “Virus” hat.
Rojas said it was a huge success and savedthe business, leading to an appearance on the TV show Shark Tank, the US version of Dragons’ Den. The company followed it up with the “Vaccinated” hat, which is proving very popular with customers, Rojas added.
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The co-founders of
Grace Rojas and Manuel Rojas, pitched their family-run company that handmakes fun and colorful oversized hats on Season 12 of
Shark Tank. It was a fun pitch as most of the Sharks enjoyed wearing the product including billionaire
Mark Cuban who was given a hat that looked like an overstuffed sack of money.