Case Study: Missouri Star Quilt Co. achieves town revival and rapid growth with Dropbox

How Dropbox helped Missouri Star Quilt Co. bring a dying town back to life

Missouri Star Quilt Co., founded by the Doan family after they moved to Hamilton, Missouri in 1995, grew from a single building and machine into a national quilting destination with 15 shops, 400 employees, and 100,000 annual visitors. The company faced the challenge of coordinating a distributed team—Alan Doan often worked from Toronto while others were in Missouri—and needed a reliable way to share product photos, daily deals, inventory plans, and large design files without version confusion.

By using Dropbox as a central file repository and collaboration hub, Missouri Star streamlined workflows, enabled remote access for writers, photographers, and editors, and kept a clear trail of assets and changes. That simple, shared system sped content production (including their BLOCK Magazine), smoothed team onboarding, eliminated file-version headaches, and helped support the company’s rapid expansion.

Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Alan Doan

Co-Founder