Our Mission

At Bull-Shirts, we take pride in providing customers with the highest quality service available.
Our commitment is to have your order ready, on time, exactly as you wanted it.
We value the people who trust us by giving us their business and we promise
we'll always give you the best service and quality work possible.

Company History

Bull Shirts was established in Houston back in 1980 by two Northern transplants from Buffalo, New York. Co-founders Joe Dotterwiech and Jake O' Conner began with a hundred dollars in their pocket and a dream. The initial site for the company was Joes' one bedroom apartment. (On more than once occasion, the fire department was called to investigate the smoke from the small heat transfer press used in those days.) Both men had full time jobs. Jake was an artist by night and an Ironworker by day. Joe was selling furniture during the week and t-shirts whenever he had a chance. During the construction boom in the early 1980's the two could be found every Friday, downtown at the pubs, selling Bull Shirts to the Ironworkers and the other tradesmen who were building the sprawling Houston skyline. A whole product line of shirts showing the various phases of skyscraper construction helped spread the word quickly about these creative guys, their designs and the quality of their shirts.

Eventually, what started out as a part-time hobby grew into a company that now employs over 50 people and services thousands of customers! Today, almost 30 years later, the work is done in their state-of-the-art 18,000 sq ft, production facility right off the Sam Houston Tollway.

From their first order of 12 shirts, (for a local tractor company) Bull shirts has evolved into a business of supplying goods for businesses throughout the country, including recording artists (Leann Rimes, Collective Soul and Blind Melon), pro sports teams (Rockets, Astros, Aeros just to mention a few) and many other companies, both large and small. Throughout it all, they have based their success on the concept of producing a great quality product at a fair price. That is how they have gained their industry-wide reputation for being one of the premier companies in the specialties and decorated apparel Business.