About
Herff Jones has a rich history - a history that is also one of
growth. Harry Herff and Randall Jones, who began their business
in an old fire engine building on Capitol Avenue in downtown
Indianapolis, founded Herff Jones in 1920. The company started
out manufacturing class rings, medals, pins and other
emblematic jewelry. Back in the 1940s, Herff Jones manufactured
bullet dies for the war effort and was later commissioned to
produce the Bronze Star.
Over the years, the company has added yearbooks, graduation
announcements and accessories, diplomas, caps and gowns,
diploma frames, and educational learning materials to the list of
products it manufactures. Although both publicly and privately
held throughout its history, the company became 100%
employee-owned in 1995.
With manufacturing facilities across the United States, Herff
Jones serves thousands of colleges and high schools across the
country, along with countless grade schools, middle schools,
churches, commercial firms, sports teams, movie studios and
even courtrooms.
In addition, Herff Jones has had the distinctive honor of
manufacturing some of the nation’s most prestigious recognition
products, including the Naismith® Award, the Spirit Award,
robes for many federal and state Supreme Court Justices and
numerous collegiate championship rings and awards. Recently
these have included the NCAA championship rings at the
University of Florida and the Super Bowl XLI rings for the
Indianapolis Colts.
Our experience in the industry makes us fully qualified to
preserve and build traditions, whether we initiate them, whether
they were initiated in the last decade or whether they were
started over 100 years ago.