Forty years of sportswear built on a single stubborn belief — that you can look good soaking wet. From Barry Numa's garage in 1988 to 14,000 employees across four continents, we've dressed the athletic, the aspirational, and the occasionally delusional.
Barry Numa was a high-school gym teacher who got tired of looking "like a drowned rat after basketball." So in 1988 he sewed a sweatband that actually worked, and the rest became a four-billion-dollar habit.
Barry passed in 2021 in a now-infamous cliffside jog — his own sweatband, ironically, obstructed his vision. We honor him daily by continuing to over-engineer terry cloth.
Read the full history →We sell sneakers. We sell shirts. We sell a very specific sweatband that hasn't changed in four decades. It's a system.
NumaStep cross-trainers. NumaConnect smart sneakers. The shoes that got one reviewer to call us "as comfortable as stepping on a Lego" — and then we fixed it.
The NumaFlex line of yoga-pajamas-disguised-as-athletic-wear. NumaTrack shirts that read your heart rate. And the original Signature Sweatbands.
The Cannon Collection, worn by Carlos "The Cannon" Fernandez on three continents. ClimateControl jackets with actual built-in fans. Yes, really.
Three and a half thousand people in Numa-owned plants. The business case is a mess. The pride is not. We're working on it.
Six core lines, four divisions, one slightly over-ambitious wardrobe. Here's what's flying off shelves.
The product that started it all. 33 million units sold in 2027 alone. Still the same pattern Barry cut in his garage.
Tracks steps, pace, route, and — if the firmware is cooperating — your actual location on the planet.
Fan-ventilated performance shell. Keeps you at 72°F regardless of what the atmosphere is doing.
Signed with Carlos "The Cannon" Fernandez in 2010. The only reason anyone in Madrid knows who we are.
"I was sick of looking like a drowned rat after basketball. So I made a sweatband that could keep up with me." Barry Numa · Founder · 1988
From hand-cut terry cloth in a suburban garage, to basketball MVPs, to smart shirts that almost always work — the Numa story runs through four decades of athletic culture.
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