companyThe Profit · Season 5, Episode 11 · Aired June 12, 2018
Tankfarm & Co.
Southern California, California
Yes. This one is still open.
What happened after
Men's apparel brand (graphic tees, boardshorts, outerwear), brother-owned since 2003, based in Seal Beach CA.
What happened on the show
Tankfarm & Co. was a men's apparel brand on the California coast run by brothers Mike and John, and it was, in the episode's telling, about to unravel. The two had found early success selling into big retail stores, but profitability never followed once they opened two locations of their own, and the retail expansion had put the whole business at risk. It was a familiar Profit pattern, a brand with a real wholesale foundation that overreached into company owned stores it could not make pay. Marcus's work in a case like this typically meant reckoning with the money losing retail footprint, refocusing on what actually generated profit, and restoring discipline to a business that had grown in the wrong direction. The brand had genuine traction with big retailers behind it, which made the self inflicted retail losses the problem to solve.
After the cameras left
Tankfarm is thriving. The men's apparel brand, making graphic tees, boardshorts, and outerwear, has been brother owned since 2003 and operates from Seal Beach, California, with a live site carrying a current copyright footer, an active store, a free shipping promotion, and a reference to a 20 year collection that confirms continuous operation. Its Instagram following sits around 18,000. Whatever the retail missteps the episode captured, the underlying brand is clearly healthy years later. Confirmed operating as of 2026, high confidence.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.