Master Blender Michael Trump started Oakridge BBQ over ten years ago with the intent of creating the very best barbecue rubs money could buy. Since the very inception of his company in 2010, Michael knew the only way he could gaurantee he made the finest quality BBQ rubs in the world was to use the finest quality ingredients available. He soon found out why the only way to accomplish this was to make the rubs himself in his own production facility where he would have complete control over every aspect of their production. Meanwhile, nearly all other "boutique" barbecue rubs on the market are made by large commercial "co-packers" who cannot possibly use the same quality ingredients sourced by Michael because these premium ingredients are far too costly and scarce to use at such a large industrial scale as theirs. This is what makes Oakridge BBQ rubs different, and the reason Oakridge BBQ has grown to be known as the Gold Standard of barbecue rubs in the inner circles of competition barbecue - not just in America, but literally around the globe. Oakridge BBQ rubs have been used to win every major barbecue competition in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Australia - including The American Royal, The Houston Livestock & Rodeo Barbecue, Memphis in May, The Jack Daniels Invitational, Meatstock, Grillstock, and many others across Europe and Australia. In fact, Oakridge BBQ has won so many documented and verified top ten awards in professional barbecue contests that they can legally say they have "more documented awards than any other brand in the history of competition barbecue."