Local company turns girls into mermaids
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A local company is making a splash around the world by making girls’ dreams of being a mermaid a reality.
Fin Fun Mermaid in Idaho Falls began just a few years ago when a young girl asked her grandma, Karen Browning, to help her become a mermaid. Browning went to work on her sewing machine and soon had her granddaughter decked out – tail and all.
The girls who wear Fin Fun’s tails don’t just look the part — they can use them in the water.
Today, “if we were to take our three-year revenue growth,” CEO Eric Browning says, “and you were to compare it with the Inc. 5000, which lists the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America, and rates them over a three-year period of growth, we would be in the top 50.”
Fin Fun shipped more than 50,000 fins and tails to 102 countries in July of this year alone.
However, the mermaid tale doesn’t end there. Fin Fun has also developed a mono-fin that slides into the bottom of a tail, helping it to look and function even more realistically.
Additionally, the company is writing a series of stories about its mermaid characters.
And, not to be left out, a new line of shark fins and tails are being released to accommodate the boys.