#4 Private Company to Watch: Global Climate Alliance | GCACommerce.com
Three-Year Avg. Annual Growth: 135%
Founded: 2022
Headquarters: 10 Commerce Park North, #12, Bedford
Sales Director: Christian Van Ham
Total Number of Employees: 10
Product/Service: Ecommerce
Christian Van Ham’s ecommerce business started as a side hustle. To pay for their son’s Montessori school, Van Ham, then operations manager at a landscaping company, and his wife, Amanda Jackson, started selling lawnmower blades on Amazon in 2022.
“We got addicted to it,” he says. They branched out, selling other lawn and garden equipment and expanding into categories like automotive. In 2023, they broke $2.5 million in sales, with Van Ham staying up till midnight placing orders after work. He quit his day job to go all in on the business starting in 2024.
“Fast forward to this year, we’re going to do over $13 million in revenue, and we have 10 employees,” he says.
The Bedford-based company, officially called Global Climate Alliance (it does business as GCA Commerce and Autosphere), and co-owned by the couple, now sells to business customers in about 15 categories, ranging from safety equipment like hard hats and eyewash chemicals to cleaning supplies, garden sheds and even Gatorade to keep workers hydrated.
Van Ham attributes the company’s explosive growth to a few factors: building a strong team, prioritizing relationships with distributors and making investments in back-end IT infrastructure that allowed them to scrutinize production costs “down to the micro penny,” yielding
improved margins.
And then there’s his approach to business. “I’m basically making things happen before we even have a plan in place, and then we pick up the pieces after,” he says.
Going forward, Van Ham wants to focus more on the local market. He’s been working to build the Autosphere brand in NH through social media and sponsoring a recent charity event, and plans to hire a local-focused salesperson in January.
“We can offer incredible prices because of the bulk that we’re buying for ecommerce,” he says. “We can bring those cost savings to the local market.
“That’s my vision for the future,” he adds, “to have a New Hampshire-based business that supplies other companies.”
