1972
1st Hobby Lobby Store opens generating only $136 dollars in sales in the first 4 months.
1982
7 stores generating $18 million in sales.
2002
285 stores generating 1.1 billion in sales.
2009
HL Investments is established to steward investments outside the core businesses.
2017
The Museum of the Bible opened in November 2017 in Washington, DC, near the US Capitol and saw approximately 1 million visitors during its first year.
2025
With more than 1,000 stores, Hobby Lobby is the largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer in the world with over 46,000 employees and operating in 48 states.
HL Investments continues to make outside investments in a broad range of asset classes that reach all over the world.