Promark is a Houston, Texas-based American drum stick company. It was one of the first drum stick companies in the United States. The drumsticks.org website wrote that Promark were also one of the first companies to successfully market oak drumsticks in America and sell their drumstick with three kind of wood : oak, maple and hickory.

Promark is a widely known stick company generally played in drum set, drum and bugle corps and concert bands. Promark have their products sold in more than 112 countries worldwide. In 2011, D’Addario & Company purchased the company.

History of Promark started when Herb Brochstein, a percussion instructor and shop owner, founded the company in Houston, Texas in 1957 as a family run business.

Many legendary drummers are the endorsers of Promark drumsticks such as : Neil Peart, Bill Bruford, Mike Portnoy, Jason Bonham, Dave Lombardo and Peter Criss.

According to the Modern Drummer official website, most common types of wood used today for drumsticks are hickory and maple. Maple is 10 percent lighter than hickory as well as plays a bit faster but it wears out pretty quickly. Hickory is harder and will last longer than maple. Oak is the heaviest wood in the market.

For their wood of the drumsticks Promark is the first company to use the Japanese Shira Kashi white oak into the American Market supplied by Japanese trader Tatsuo Kosaka.

This white oak sticks are 10 percent heavier than American Hickory sticks. But that oak will last the longest since it has the extra density that can withstand more intense playing styles.

Also Hickory has a natural feel and is the most versatile of those three wood types. As for maple it will gives for more sensitivity plays and should be better applied for lighter playing situations, no hard hitting needed. Maple makes drummers able to use larger diameter sticks  without being too heavy.

Most stick manufacturers today still offer the classic models types of drumsticks : 2B, 5A, 5B, and 7A.  Pat Brown of Promark explains, “Beyond that, most companies have adopted their own individual systems for naming or numbering sticks, and usually those names or numbers are little more than generic part numbers that bear little or no relevance to the size or shape of the stick.”