As pro sports leagues get as pro sports leagues get back in action risk packing stadiums to the brim. One company in Minnesota hopes their production can fix that wind craft is a manufacturing company that makes licensed products for sports teams. They work with the NCAA Major League, baseball, NBA, NHL Nascar, you name it and all the college sports they are adding face masks to their shelves featuring Americas. Favorite sports teams. Here with more, is John Killen. Look at that he is wearing the face. What is that called the face? I call it a gator, you call it a what a face Wrap Steve. You are wearing my favorite Kansas Jayhawks. Thank you. John. Before Covid hit, wind craft was having its best year ever thats right. Wind craft is a 59 year old, Minnesota company. We are having a record two thousand and twenty, and of course we all know Covid hit

and sports stopped in America. Unfortunately, we had to furlough six hundred employees when we had to shelter in place enacted by our governor and also governor of Wisconsin. We had to think fast and we quickly said what else can we do to help America and help our people return to work, and we invented this face mask product line Steve you did indeed right now. The good news is, you have rehired five hundred of those people who were sidelined by the pandemic and they are making these masks and the design is so simple because it is a single piece of cloth just like that and you fold it over and then have you got these things where you put it through your ears, just like that on in no time everybody is talking about how important it is to get back to sports. This is a way to be able to do just that. Thats right.

We have had great support from our licensing partners. Six hundred colleges, our engineering team, did a wonderful job, developing the product supply team, finding the material to make it out of its great. We can do this. As you said, we employed five hundred and five people in the last one hundred days and brought people back to work. We shipped over two million units in the first one hundred days of production. This has been February Noal success for the company and available nationwide with retailers, hipping people show team Friday and be safe in this code. Time period Steve, it has been shown mask, does work a lot of people dont like to wear them, but they do make wearing a mask fun. I understand you are also working with colleges to put the masks in their back to school back to campus packets as well right, thats right. We are working with a lot of great colleges and universities out there

Notre Dame Lsu Alabama University of Northern Iowa and we are trying to outfit some of the teams and students get back to campus, so they can return to the classroom and study and learn and have a great college experience Steve. Yesterday we ran a soundbite from coach o at Ls Lsu, and he was talking about the importance of betting gang into the stands. America lives on football and sports unite us. We will figure a way to do it by people wearing masks socially distancing in the stadium thats. How you can do it thats what you and your company are trying to do right now, thats right and we are working closely with Lsu. They will have gaiters like this and coach. Also. Have that really a great way to return social distance, conscious or return to school or return to campus, get out there and enjoy your favorite sporting event? Do

it with a mask on and try to get life back to normal, Steve yeah? I wear mine to the grocery store John. If people are watching would like more information about your masks and scarves, where do they go? They can go local retail from an internet basis, Rally house, dot, com, fanatics, dot com they have a great selection of face, covers all types of varieties. We really appreciate being on Fox AMP friends this morning. This has been a great opportunity for us to bring jobs back to America. Steve Indeed- and you are its amazing John Killen from wind craft win company has been in existence.