Blue Thumb proudly announces they are the first manufacturer in the water feature industry to invest in their own rotational molding machine. The $500,000 investment allows us to control the quality and availability of our pond filtration and fountain reservoir/basin products as well as helps us keep a better control on rising costs.
In the Summer of 2014, we updated the Blue Thumb brand identity. We needed a logo that better represented our water feature company and could be easily reproduced across all of our marketing from catalogs to clothing for our team members.
Many customers were coming into the store requesting pond supplies which eventually lead to us installing ponds professionally. In 1998 I decided that managing the pet store was keeping us from focusing on what we did best- water features. I sold the store and purchased a building to operate our water feature installation/maintenance business from.
After college I came back to Saginaw and purchased a local pet store so I had somewhere to operate my maintenance business from. It was 1996 and the pond industry was about to go into major growth mode.
Aquariums were a passion of mine growing up as a child. So much so that I started Blue Lagoon Aquatics as a senior in high school (1992) cleaning aquariums at doctor offices after school.
Today, Blue Thumb focuses on assisting our customers in becoming more successful in promoting, selling, and installing all types of Ponds, Waterfalls, & Fountains. Our business is blessed to have each of you as customers. We appreciate your loyalty to us and take your success and business seriously. Please feel free to contact me personally [...]
Seeing the need to consolidate, we purchased a 126,000 sq ft facility located at 2650 Schust Road in Saginaw. This allowed us to consolidate our four warehouses and bring all our employees, inventory, and production under one roof and provides us the room to expand into the future. We also began to align our different [...]
Then, in October, Blue Thumb acquired Bacti-Twist a biological media used in pond and aquarium filtration.
In September of 2017 we acquired LiquidArt Fountains, a manufacturer of GFRC (glass-fiber reinforced concrete) boulder fountains. This acquisition perfected our formula to replicate nature’s boulders as fountains.
In March of 2014 we acquired Aqua Bella Designs, a manufacturer of professional-grade fountain systems including vases, copper trees, bubbling boulders, and basalt columns. Aqua Bella basins are manufactured under the name Aqua Box and hold a patent with the United States Patent & Trademark Office. The acquisition provided us with a quality and time-tested product line and immediate access [...]
