SOUTHWEST EMBLEM COMPANY is a division of Southwest Enterprises of Cisco, Texas, USA. A second division of the organization is Southwest Camps. We have been in business in Cisco for some 40 years, beginning as a part-time and summer enterprise when Mr. Eris Ritchie, company owner and president, was serving as band director for the Cisco Public Schools and later Cisco Junior College. Mr. Ritchie also fulfilled public relations and advertising functions at Cisco Junior College. The business operations became full time and full fledged in 1977, when Mr. Ritchie resigned his position at Cisco Junior College to devote full time to Southwest Enterprises.

We are very pleased that the Southwest Emblem division of the company has over the past twenty years become the USA’s number one supplier of custom embroidered patches for school music groups, festivals, and parades. We are also a major source for custom-made lapel pins, award medals, chenille letters and emblems, ribbons, decals, and many other emblematic customized products.

Our Southwest Camps division promotes and manages summer camp/clinics for high school, junior high, and elementary age cheerleaders and dance teams. We currently have camps in the following locations: Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas; the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas; United South High School in Laredo, Texas; and junior camp (junior high and younger) at Creekside Intermediate School in League City. Our cheerleader camps are affiliated with the National Cheerleaders Association. We have promoted and managed summer camps since 1960.