Chad Chig Martin

Chad Chig Martin was born in 1968 in rural Enterprise, Al. to the late Glyn and Evelyn Martin. His parents were blue-collar workers that eventually became Alabama small business owners. Chig was a standout football player at Enterprise High School graduating in 1986 and eventually receiving a full Division 1 football scholarship to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Upon graduation Martin quickly returned to Alabama to begin his business career.

He started out selling vacuum cleaners door to door. He then sold photocopiers and facsimile machines afterward. Eventually, Chig landed an outside sales job for a national industrial supply company as an outside sales representative. In 2005 Chig took the leap of faith and opened his first company Thunder Industrial and ran it out of his bedroom for 7 years. Eventually moving to a state-of-the-art sales office in Dothan, Al. . Now almost 18 years later the company is thriving. Chig also started the first CBD and hemp dispensary in the state Honeysuckle Hemp Company on Jan 14, 2019. The company is a landmark company in Alabama and has thrived since day one. Chig also operates the family mobile home park left behind by his parents. This Alabama-based business is nearly 55 years old.

Along the way, Chad Chig Martin and The Alabama Outlaws band entertained tens of thousands of people all around the country. Chig also scored his own national line of fedora and cowboy hats along the way sold under the Chad Chig Martin line of hats.

Chig is single and has one daughter Anna who is 27 years old and she runs part of the family business. She has worked with the company since she was 16 years old. Chig is known for his humorous stories and straightforward innovative business approach. He is a people person as you will never find Chig at a loss of words