2 New Promotional Maglights (Maglites®) have smooth barrels. Why? to make your full color logo look great! The original K3A Solitaire and the M2A Mini Maglite® are now available with an optional “smooth finish” barrel. Anthony Maglica is always coming up with new ideas. This keeps the company fresh and exciting. The aluminum barrels are still available with the knurled finish, for the purists. Promotional Maglites® are sure to stay on the leading edge of the flashlight industry as long as Anthony Maglica provides vision for this American-Made company.
Mr. Maglica was born in NYC during the depression, but raised in Croatia, his mother’s country of origin.
Anthony Maglica
1955 Machine Shop. In 1950 Anthony returned to the United States to find his American dream. He started a small machine shop. He made precision parts for the government and industry.
1979 Police Flashlights. The first Maglite® was made. It soon became famous among policemen across the country. It was known for its dependability and durability.
Mini Maglite® in 1984. The smaller version of the original flashlight was released just 5 years later. It uses two AA batteries, and is still extremely popular today.
AAA Mini Maglite® in 1987. A still smaller version, using two AAA batteries came out 3 years later.
Solitaire® single AAA in 1988. The only one year later, the purse-sized Solitaire® was introduced. It holds only one AAA battery.
1996 Cadillac of Flashlights. The Wall Street Journal referred to Maglites® as the Cadillac of Flashlight, an appropriate designation.
Several Hundred Employees. Today Maglite® is going strong, and has 700,000 square feet of manufacturing, storage, and offices.
2018. They are still Designed and Manufactured in the USA, with no intention of ever changing that.
USA-Made. MagLites have been designed and manufactured in the United States since the beginning. Unlike a lot of companies that shift their US production to overseas, MagLite has continued to keep the jobs in America. This has caused the retail pricing to be higher than similar flashlights made overseas. Despite the higher prices, this has not prevented the loyal customers, world-wide, from buying MagLites on a regular basis. MagLite has made a name for itself, and the name has universal recognition.
Anthony Maglica Still At Work
American Success Story. Maglite is also the story of a man who started small and made a highly successful company. Anthony Maglica showed us that hard work and dedication pays off.
Maglite m3a in dark green
Durability and Versatility. There is no question that Maglite flashlights are durable because of their aluminum barrel construction and water-tight rubber seals. The knurled barrel finish makes them easy to grip. They are versatile because of the many types of beam intensity and functions that are built into some of them. They all have the twisting focusing ability, which is a trademark of this great American company.
