American flags and flagpoles made in Oak Creek, Wisconsin since 1887
✅ Made in USA
Where Eder Flag products are made
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Eder Flag Manufacturing Company operates from 1000 W. Rawson Avenue in Oak Creek, just south of Milwaukee. Keeping the company in the Milwaukee area was an explicit part of the ownership plan finalized in 2016.
Sewn in the Depression tradition
During the Great Depression a small staff of highly skilled sewers began to handcraft U.S. flags at Eder. Flag sewing has remained the core of the business through every product line the company has added since.
Poles as well as flags
Eder is the nation’s largest manufacturer of both flags and flagpoles — an unusual combination, since the two are typically made by different companies and the pole is often the imported half.
Eder’s origin claim is stronger than most in this category because it covers both halves of the product. The company states that “both your flag and pole were expertly crafted in the USA from American materials.” That distinction matters: flagpoles, hardware and finials are commonly imported even when the flag itself is domestically sewn, so a buyer who only checks the flag can still end up flying it from an imported pole. Eder also states that it sells over twenty thousand different products and produces more than five million U.S. flags per year, which makes it the largest domestic manufacturer in both halves of the trade.
The story
Eder Flag did not begin as a flag company. Eder Manufacturing Co. was launched in 1887 by seven brothers of the Eder family, and its early business was pillows, felt pennants, rag dolls and hunting jackets — the sewn-goods trade of the late nineteenth century.
The flag-making business was born out of that in 1903. It became the whole company during the Great Depression, when a small staff of highly skilled sewers began handcrafting U.S. flags, and the work has never left the building.
From there the line widened: flags of every type, then flagpoles, then the brackets, halyards, finials and hardware that go with them. Today Eder sells over twenty thousand different products and produces more than five million U.S. flags a year.
In 2016 company leadership finalized the steps to make Eder Flag employee-owned. The company describes that structure as the realization of Mr. Eder’s vision — one that included keeping the company in the Milwaukee area and maintaining loyalty to the employees who built it.
Why they matter
The American flag is the one product where imported manufacture is a genuine contradiction, and it is also a product that is imported at scale. Flags sold in the United States are routinely sewn abroad, and the hardware that flies them almost always is.
Eder Flag is the largest domestic answer to that, and it answers on both halves — flag and pole — which almost no one else does. Five million U.S. flags a year is not a boutique operation preserving a craft; it is industrial capacity that stayed in Wisconsin.
The 2016 employee-ownership conversion is the part worth noticing. It was structured specifically to keep the company in the Milwaukee area and to hold onto the people who built it, which is the opposite of what usually happens when a 130-year-old manufacturer changes hands.
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Frequently asked questions
Where are Eder Flag flags made?
In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, just south of Milwaukee. Eder Flag states that both the flag and the pole are expertly crafted in the USA from American materials.
How old is Eder Flag?
Eder Manufacturing Co. was launched in 1887 by seven Eder brothers. The flag-making business was born from it in 1903.
Who owns Eder Flag?
The employees. In 2016 company leadership finalized steps to make Eder Flag an employee-owned company, a structure the company says was designed to keep it in the Milwaukee area.
Does Eder Flag make flagpoles too?
Yes. Eder Flag says it is the nation’s largest manufacturer of both flags and flagpoles, which is unusual — the pole is the half most often imported.