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Founded in 2015 by Paul Hedrick, Tecovas is the fastest-growing Western-wear brand in the world — high-quality cowboy boots, authentic Western design, and 42 stores of radical hospitality across the country. JBC's press program cemented Tecovas as a category leader through brand and founder coverage in business and consumer media.
Press coverage measured the way a fast-growing retail brand should be — store count, tier-one editorial, and the cultural-credibility outlets that turn cowboy culture into a national conversation.
Retail stores nationwide — and growing.
Growing Western-wear brand in the world.
Forbes · Fortune · GQ · Footwear News · BoF.
How does a heritage-craft Western brand cement category leadership in a moment when every fashion house is suddenly chasing cowboy culture?
Cowboy was trending. The category was crowded with newcomers chasing the aesthetic without the craft. Tecovas had the product, the stores, and the founder story — what it needed was a press program that translated authenticity into editorial, and editorial into category leadership.
That meant landing the brand in the business press where retail expansion gets covered, the fashion press where authority is built, and the lifestyle outlets where Western culture actually lives.
An integrated press program built around what makes Tecovas Tecovas — craftsmanship, radical hospitality, and a genuine Western point of view. Each lane reinforced authenticity over trend.
Paul Hedrick as a category voice on heritage craft, retail expansion, and the future of Western wear — in business and consumer press in tandem.
Coverage in Cowboys & Indians, Field & Stream, and the lifestyle outlets where Western culture actually lives — grounding the brand in the real category, not just the aesthetic.
A playbook for every new store opening, tied to local market press and the radical-hospitality story that defines the in-store experience.
Forbes, Fortune, GQ, Footwear News, TechCrunch, Business of Fashion — a coordinated cross-vertical program that compounded credibility across audiences.
Tecovas built the brand on handmade boots and Texas hospitality. The press program turned that craft into a story — founder profiles, product features, and category leadership coverage that ran in the magazines actually shaping consumer Western style.
Forbes, Fortune, GQ, Footwear News, TechCrunch, Business of Fashion, Field & Stream, and Cowboys & Indians — a cross-section that signals Tecovas isn't chasing the trend, it's defining it.
Tecovas opens stores the way few modern retail brands do — with a hospitality program designed to turn a boot purchase into a return visit. The press program treats every opening as a regional editorial moment, not just a press release.
National brand press meets local market storytelling. The kind of coverage cadence that scales with retail growth instead of trailing it.
A selection of the moments and outlets that defined the partnership — business, fashion, and Western lifestyle press, in tandem.
Plus sustained editorial cadence across business, retail, and Western lifestyle outlets.
Authenticity is a strategy. The brands that win in trending categories are the ones whose press program treats craft, hospitality, and founder voice as the headline — not the trend itself.
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