SureShade® designs and manufactures innovative marine sunshade systems that enhance and facilitate the boating experience. Our patented telescoping sunshade systems offer boaters more choice, comfort and convenience for sun protection on-board boats.
Our Mission is Two-Fold
- To provide marine trade professionals – such as boat builders, boat refitters, boat dealers, marine canvas fabricators and marine accessory providers – with cutting-edge shade solutions that increase their value in the market
- To provide private boat owners with a better marine sunshade solution for their boats – offering choice, comfort and convenience
Inventing a Standard
It all started with an idea. An idea that one of the most basic needs on a boat – protection from the sun – should not be cumbersome for boaters or visually unappealing for boat designs.
As we saw marine technology and boat design features continue to evolve in the industry, the very tangible need of sun protection remained a design afterthought for most builders. Open cockpits remained uncovered and the burden of how to figure out a solution for shade was on the shoulders of the boat owner. The solution usually involved a set of fixed poles drilled into sides of a boat, awkward bimini structures or flimsy add-ons that only provided temporary shade.
SureShade set out to invent a shade product that offered boaters something different – eliminating tedious canvas handling and providing shade where once not possible.
Today, SureShade is featured on nearly 200 boat models with a variety of automated and manual shade products to provide options for nearly any boat size, style or budget.
Our Company History
SureShade Opens Expanded Facility on Manufacturing Day
In October 2019, SureShade hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of their new 11,000 square foot headquarters & production facility reinforcing their commitment to manufacturing growth in Philadelphia.
The event was held on National Manufacturing Day, October 4th, the ideal opportunity to showcase SureShade’s new facility and provide attendees with a full factory tour and overview of the manufacturing process of their sunshade systems for marine and RV.
Go-to-Market Strategy
SureShade’s market growth has benefited from parallel demand generated from OEMs, Dealers and Private Boat Owners.
As more and more boat builders add SureShade to new or retrofitted boat models it also generates demand for aftermarket installations by dealers and private boat owners.
SureShade is quickly becoming the must-have shade option for new boat purchases, in addition to aftermarket boat upgrades.
From Start-up to Industry Standard
The SureShade Story: From Start-up to Standard (the First Five Years)
In an industry that has historically found it difficult to embrace change, SureShade®, a U.S. based manufacturing start-up, managed to create an innovative product that is now helping to shape the future of boat design and create new revenue streams that did not exist 5 years ago… becoming the standard for marine shade.
In just five short years the company has grown from a start-up and industry unknown to the new standard in boat shade chosen by leading boat manufacturers worldwide. Featured on top-selling boat brands on nearly every boat style and size, SureShade offers builders and dealers a value-add feature that boaters are demanding.
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- The idea behind SureShade’s invention
- Early adopters that embraced the product at the ground level
- Market growth – from introduction to being featured on 50 boat models in 5 years
- What builders, dealers and boaters are now saying about the shade system
- How SureShade has evolved to become the shade system builders prefer and boaters are demanding
