Greenball Corporation

Who owns Greenball Corporation?

Greenball is a private, family owned company. It was founded by Chris and Jenny Tsai in 1976 and remains under Tsai family control, with Randy Tsai serving in senior leadership.

Is Greenball Corporation publicly traded?

No. Greenball is privately held and does not trade on any stock exchange or publish financial results.

What brands does Greenball own?

Its brands include Kanati, Tow-Master, Transmaster, Centennial, GBC Motorsports, Greensaver, Powermaster, and Dirt Devil. Kanati is its flagship consumer light truck line.

Where are Greenball tires made?

Greenball does not own factories. It contracts production to selected tire plants in Asia and imports finished product to its US distribution centers.

When was Greenball founded?

The company was founded in 1976 in Long Beach, California, starting in a 2,300 square foot warehouse with three employees. It moved to Anaheim as it expanded.

What does GBC Motorsports make?

GBC Motorsports is Greenball's ATV and UTV tire subsidiary, launched in 1995. It produces tires for recreation, racing, farming, and hunting applications.

Chris Tsai and his wife Jenny founded Greenball in Long Beach, California, in 1976, starting in a 2,300 square foot combined office and warehouse with three employees. Tsai saw that US tire manufacturers were concentrating on profitable passenger and truck segments and pulling back from specialty tires, leaving dealers without reliable supply for trailer, lawn and garden, and industrial fitments. Greenball was built to fill that gap by importing those categories.

The company outgrew its headquarters six times as volume expanded. It added radial and bias light truck tires and radial medium truck tires to the original specialty lineup, and built warehouse capacity to serve wholesalers directly, since selling to wholesalers at thin margins made little sense without distribution scale. A 250,000 square foot distribution center in Fontana, California, anchors its logistics, alongside additional sites in the eastern and central United States.

GBC Motorsports launched in 1995 to serve the ATV and UTV market, which was growing rapidly as recreational off-roading expanded. The unit sponsors racing programs and remains the company's performance identity. In the late 2000s Greenball began sourcing passenger tires, first through a program for SURE Tire Company, and it distributed the Sonny and Jinyu lines produced in China.

The Kanati division became the company's flagship consumer brand in the 2010s, with a US trademark registered in November 2010. Kanati extended Greenball from specialty niches into mainstream light truck and SUV fitments with the Mud Hog, Trail Hog, and later the Terra Commander and Navpoint lines. In 2016 the company marked its 40th anniversary with three distribution centers and more than 100 employees, and it continues to operate under Tsai family leadership from its Anaheim headquarters at 222 South Harbor Boulevard.