Our Brands
Our Business Model
Clickstop is the central management, manufacturing, and strategy hub behind a specialized portfolio of industrial brands. Our journey began with the success of our flagship brand, US Cargo Control. This success taught us a crucial lesson: reinvesting profits back into people and scalable systems is the key to creating sustainable opportunities.
Today, we have a powerful engine—our people, our strategies, and our own manufacturing operation—to operate and grow each of our distinct brands. Vertical integration is a core growth strategy: the breadth of our catalog shows us exactly what our customers need, and we invest in manufacturing where we can improve quality, lead time, availability, customization, or cost. Our portfolio strategy is built to fulfill our mission: to create a business that is sustainable, enjoyable, and provides opportunity for those who seek it.
How Our Strategy Fuels Our Brands
At the very center of our business strategy is our Brand Promise: What You Want When You Need It. It acts as the guiding star for our decisions and actions.
Our strategy is built upon three interconnected core pillars that radiate outward from our central Brand Promise, ensuring we drive profitable growth, strengthen our culture, and secure our future as an ESOP company.
Employee Engagement & Performance Management
We are building a culture where every employee is an owner committed to and aligned with our mission and values.
- Engagement is the commitment and aligned action with our mission and values.
- Performance Management is the leadership that provides the vision, expectations, coaching, and accountability to turn that commitment into results.
Shared ownership
- Every Employee is responsible for owning their own engagement and growth.
- Leaders empower growth through development that strategically connects business needs with individual goals.
When engagement and performance align, we create the sustainable, reliable results that drive both personal growth and company success.
Inventory Optimization
Inventory Optimization means striking the right balance in our product strategy.
Having enough product to seize opportunities, delight customers, and maximize sales, without unnecessarily tying up capital or straining manufacturing or warehouse operations.
- Discipline in managing inventory flow and levels strengthens cash flow and drastically improves manufacturing and warehouse efficiency.
- We align this inventory strategy with great vendor partnerships and operational excellence to maximize our profitability and long-term financial health.
Our decisions must align product availability with responsible capital investment to maximize our ESOP valuation.
Rapid, Sustained, and Profitable Growth
We’re focused on maximizing the financial health and long-term sustainability of our business, ensuring that growth is not just about increasing sales, but about increasing true profitability.
A relentless focus on profitability fuels our ability to:
- Invest in our people, technology, and continued brand innovation.
- Sustainably grow the entire business and expand market reach.
- Strengthen the value of the company, which is directly tied to the financial future of our employee-owners.
We achieve this by strategically managing key drivers:
- Customer acquisition and retention: Ensuring we attract high-value customers and foster their loyalty.
- Sales and marketing effectiveness: Maximizing the return on every investment made to drive demand.
- Operational discipline: Diligently managing all costs associated with our products, including sourcing, freight, and channel fees.
This disciplined approach ensures our growth is sustainable, protecting our ability to invest in the future and create long-term value for our brands and our employee-owners.
Our Portfolio of Specialized Markets
Each brand within our portfolio is focused on serving a specific customer need with unparalleled service, quality, and value.
US Cargo Control (2005)
US Cargo Control is a manufacturer and supplier serving the professional trucking, lifting and rigging, and moving industries. We are willing to go the extra mile for all our customers, every day. We’ve grown into a leader of the cargo control industry by manufacturing and supplying hardworking people with thousands of quality products—including chain and nylon lifting slings, ratchet and winch straps, cargo nets, and chain assemblies built, tested, and certified at our Iowa plant. But our main purpose is not to sell products. Our main purpose is to be a dedicated and trustworthy solution to your problems. We’re the trusted partner in the cargo control industry and are always working to make our customers’ jobs easier.
Fasteners Plus (2013)
Fasteners Plus is your source for building and construction fasteners and hardware. We’ve carefully chosen the finest products available and offered them all in one place for your convenience. Whether you’re a contractor, builder, or commercial facility team, we can help you tackle projects of any size—and we’re bringing more of what we sell into our own manufacturing operation.
EcoFoil (2007)
EcoFoil is a leading supplier of radiant barrier and reflective insulation for your home, pole barn or commercial building. Our products are manufactured in North America exclusively. We do not sell any products that are imported from overseas. Our knowledgeable product specialists are also experts at installing the products we sell and can provide exceptional support before, during, and after the sale.
Clean Laundry (2017)
Clean Laundry is a simple idea. If you go to a place to get your clothes cleaned, it should be clean, fast, comfortable, and do the best job ever washing and drying your clothes. It should be a pleasant, comfortable place that’s safe, secure, and provides great value. We then added more requirements to our list. We wanted to use Iowa-made, and we wanted an eco-friendlier store compared to older, less efficient facilities.
Ready to Contribute to Our Multi-Brand Success?
Our portfolio is a reflection of our continuous commitment to growth and opportunity. If you are passionate about driving success across diverse markets, we invite you to contribute your expertise to our team of employee owners.