Toadvine Enterprises

Specialties

Indoor and outdoor athletic equipment, stadium and gym seating, scoreboards and maintenance services.

History

Established in 1987.

While finishing graduate school at Western KY University, Mike Toadvine began selling for the Clayton Company. At the time, they were selling park and playground equipment in Western Kentucky. As business grew, Mike relocated to Louisville, KY in 1976. Shortly after that in 1979, Clayton Company became Dant Clayton through the acquisition of a metal bleacher manufacturer out of Alabama. The change in name helped to re-​brand the business into a more full-​service manufacturer and distributor. Toadvine Enterprises traces its roots back to a point when Mike Toadvine bought the rights to distribute Dant Clayton products in Kentucky and Indiana. At the time, Dant Clayton manufactured metal bleachers and maintained a sales and distribution team. When they decided to just be a manufacturer, it was a natural transition for Mike to purchase rights to the distribution… thus began the start of Toadvine Enterprises as we know it today.