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JABO, Inc. Reno, Ohio. 1987 – The present. JABO, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Joanne Argabrite and Jack Bogard. Mr. Bogard was the owner of the Bogard Company which had suffered financial setbacks while in Cairo, WV. Ms. Argabrite was the accountant who was helping him resuscitate his company.
24 Μαΐ 2010 · McCullough may have to work his magic on the furnace, which has sat idle for months in Jabo Inc.'s tiny factory near Marietta. Jabo is the last marble maker in Ohio. McCullough hopes to produce up to 120,000 one-inch marbles for a group of collectors from across the United States and Canada.
With a lucrative industrial marble business, JABO would purchase a location in Williamstown, WV to increase production for the industrial marble demand, though colorful marbles were never made. By 2006, JABO's industrial marble business was waning to the point of massive cutbacks and Joanne's order to halt production of Classics.
As always I've gotta comment on how I found these marbles lol. Found them in a ziplock baggie at Goodwill with no price. I went to ask an employee to price them for me, and the bag came back with a price of 69 cents!
JABO, Inc. Contract runs. Picking up where the gallery page 'JABO, Inc. 'Classics' left off. JABO's Industrial marble business was in severe decline. They went from fifty-five, to six full time employees. Rumors were coming from the top that a company closure was likely.
If you have fallen under the spell of the unending turning magic of the swirl marble, the wondrous translucent and/or opaque swirl marbles that Jabo have been featuring in their Spring & Fall Classic series will have come to your attention.
JABO, Inc. Post-McCullough. Soon after the departure of Production Manager Dave McCullough, and subsequent layoff of their top two machine operators, JABO, Inc. would be faced with diminishing enthusiasm in their ability to create beautiful marbles.
