About Us

To better reflect its position in the hobby industry, Genesis Hobby (a family owned business) formally came into being in 2004. That makes a nice sound bite doesn't it? But as you might imagine, there's a story behind Genesis. You see this all started because John Beech (the founder) didn't have the money (on a middle school math teacher's salary) to buy some giant scale servos for a model he wanted to build. Worse (from his wife Lynn's viewpoint), it wasn't keeping her in the style she wanted to become accustomed to either! A second job meant no hobby time and while part-time employment wasn't hard to find, McJob wages wouldn't cut it so instead he decided to look into starting a business. Thus the entrepreneurial goal of augmenting his teacher's salary (to buy some giant scale servos) led to John starting a part-time business in 1992...and from such a run-of-the-mill event came Genesis Hobby – for the rest of the story click here.