Tom Beckbe

Thomas H. Beckbe & Co. is a brand of outdoor clothing and accessories founded in 2015 by former Bradley Arant Boult Cummings attorney Radcliff Menge. The brand's signature product is the waxed cotton "Tensaw Jacket", conceived by Menge to, "bridge the gap between professional attire and sporting attire."

The name "Tom Beckbe" was chosen as a reference to the term "/itumbi ikbi/", meaning "coffin maker", which was the name the Choctaw gave the Tombigbee River on the eastern boundary of their territory.

Most of the company's sales are online direct-sales and wholesale to specialty retailers. The brand's first "Tom Beckbe Outpost" concept store opened in Wilson, Arkansas in 2020. In 2021 the company raised $1.5 million from private investors to fund growth, starting with a planned store at Mountain Brook Village.

References

• Patchen, Tyler (April 22, 2021) "Local clothier raises $1.5M, plans store in Mountain Brook." Birmingham Business Journal

External links

• Tom Beckbe website