Big Ass Fans is a manufacturing company started in 1999 in Lexington Kentucky. They manufacture fans, coolers and heaters for Commercial, Industrial and Residential use. I have discovered that they do not manufacture fans specifically for people with large asses (a common misconception) or even fans for idiots who are considered to be huge asses (another common misconception) – they manufacture really big fans.
From BigAssFans.com:
From BigAssFans.com:
It started with a big idea in engineering: that the combination of size and quality design could fundamentally change what ceiling fans could accomplish. That high-volume, low-speed (HVLS) airflow—an entirely new concept—was the key to making spaces more comfortable and efficient. Because the “HVLS Fan Company” thought big, it didn’t take long for people to notice the impact our products had on facilities or for them to rebrand the company the way they saw us: as upstart innovator Big Ass Fans.
Anyway, Forbes published an interesting profile of Big Ass Fans yesterday:
The founder of Big Ass Fans, Carey Smith, had done work with a company that made large, slow-moving fans designed to cool cow barns, as heat reduces the amount of milk cows produce. Smith saw an opportunity to apply the concept in warehouses, and he formed HVLS Fan Co. around his own design (the name being an abbreviation for his “high-volume, low-speed” fan). He marketed his innovation to both dairy farmers and warehouse operators, but it soon became popular for broader factory applications as well. That growing popularity is what led to the eventual company name change. “People would call in and say, ‘I want one of those big-ass fans,’” explained Jim Flickinger, the company’s SVP and CCO.
By now, some of you might be thinking, “Oh, yeah, I remember when David Letterman did a bit about Big Ass Fans.” If you are thinking this, congratulations, you are experiencing The Mandela Effect. David Letterman’s bit that you are misremembering was for “Big Ass Ham”.
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