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KEEN Inc. KEEN Inc., manufacturer of hybrid footwear, socks and bags, is an outdoor brand that delivers innovative hybrid products, enabling all outdoor enthusiasts to live an active lifestyle. Founded in 2003, KEEN was first recognized for its Newport sandal, which featured patented toe protection technology. Based in Portland, Oregon, the company strives to demonstrate integrity and leadership, especially on social and environmental commitments, while promoting an inclusive outdoor community. Through its giving program Hybrid.Care, the company provides support to a variety of social and environmental organizations around the globe. |
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Moving Comfort Established in 1977 with the first women’s running short, Moving Comfort designs and delivers performance apparel, sports bras and accessories that support and inspire women to get fit, be healthy and achieve their own unique personal bests. Headquartered in Bothell, Washington, Moving Comfort is a division of Brooks Sports, Inc. A Fit Woman is a Powerful Woman!® Spread the Word. |
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Osprey Independent since 1974 and anchored by the design genius of company founder and owner, Mike Pfotenhauer, Osprey Packs has long set the standard for creating innovative, high quality gear carrying equipment. Our collection includes backpacks, pursuit specific packs, hydration packs, active everyday packs, and a full line of travel packs and bags. Located in Cortez, Colorado at the corner of the rugged San Juan Mountains and on the edge of vast sandstone canyon country, this landscape provides a constant inspiration and a superb testing ground for our products. We also maintain a product development office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ensuring face-to-face relationships and transparency with our suppliers. Every Osprey ever built reflects our company’s commitment to protect the wild places our customers explore while using our products. For more information about Osprey, visit www.ospreypacks.com. |
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Icebreaker Launched in 1994, Icebreaker was the first company in the world to develop a merino fibre layering system for the outdoors. It was also the first outdoor apparel company in the world to source merino directly from growers, a system it began in 1997. There are now 10 distinct pure merino fabrics in the Icebreaker system, covering underwear, mid layer, and outerwear. Icebreaker is sold in more than 2,000 stores in 24 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Australasia and North America. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Icebreaker uses only pure merino hand-picked from 120 high country stations in the country’s Southern Alps to create edgy outdoor clothing that combines nature’s work with human technology and design. The company is committed to sustainability, ethical manufacturing and animal welfare. In 2008 the company launched “Icebreaker Baacode,” a pioneering supply chain transparency and traceability program. Each Icebreaker includes a unique Baacode, which enables customers to trace the garment online from rearing the sheep through to each stage of the supply chain process. Learn more at icebreaker.com |
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Nau Nau (pronounced “now”) is a clothing company based in Portland, Oregon. They design, make, and sell sustainable urban+outdoor apparel – integrated designs for the modern mobile life. Nau is committed to the power of business as a force for positive change, seeking to balance the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. To learn more about Nau, visit www.nau.com |
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Horny Toad Based in Santa Barbara a few hundred yards from the beach, Horny Toad is a clothing company that takes fun seriously, celebrates the adventure in every day life (both outdoors and in) and always aims to do the right thing. The Toad culture is oriented around community, sustainability, and looking for new ways to accomplish traditional business goals. To learn more visit www.hornytoad.com or call 800.865.TOAD. |
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El Naturalista Based in Pamplona, Spain, El Naturalista was founded in 2002 by General Manager Pablo de la Peña. He had a concept in mind while creating the company – he wanted to create a global shoe brand inspired by nature – comfortable and still fashionable. The final product that El Naturalista offers is young footwear, comfortable and in accordance with the values of nature as well as with its own brand values. El Naturalista is present in 34 countries all over the world with has four stores (Taipei, Berlin, Santa Monica and Helsinki). |
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Snow Peak It is our great honor to experience and enjoy the richness of nature, finding that when we experience the natural world we find happiness and a sense of fulfillment. Snow Peak’s journey began in 1958, when our founder Yukio Yamai, an accomplished mountaineer, created his own line of superior gear out of the dissatisfaction with available products. It is our birth place and our founders heritage that we look to when ever we sit down at the drawing board and create our next piece of outdoor gear. Yukio Yamai had lived his entire life in Sanjo City, in the Chetsu region of Niigata Prefecture, which is also known locally as a hardware town. A range of mountains that rise up to an altitude of 1000m form a wall on the boundary between Niigata and Fukushima prefectures, and the rivers and streams born from the peaks and valleys, are the home of torrent fish, flow out to the East Japan Sea. This rich environment full of sea, mountains, and rivers naturally evokes a strong interest in the outdoors in the people who are born and raised there. It is this place that inspired Yukio, and to this day continues to inspire all of the products that come from Snow Peak. Today we strive to create products that inspire people to enjoy the outdoors, we seek harmony between people and nature, and we look to manufacturer with such high quality standards that you may pass on your equipment to the next generation. This is where all of our designs are born. |
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Blundstone Founded in 1870, Blundstone is a Tasmanian based footwear manufacturer with an unrivalled technological base and a long history in technical innovation. The company’s in-house engineering resources are focused on developing improved processes, and building the plant and tooling necessary to implement them. Blundstone: Australian for Boot. |
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SteriPEN SteriPEN™ is the only portable water purifier that uses ultraviolet (UV) light to destroy waterborne microbes. Whether your source is a woodland brook or an overseas hotel tap, SteriPEN purifies clear water by destroying viruses, bacteria and protozoa—including Giardia and Cryptosporidium—in seconds. Carry a SteriPEN to disinfect water wherever you travel, hike, camp or trek. It’s the fastest route to pure, safe drinking water anywhere. |
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Light & Motion Two Stanford students in a garage in Palo Alto, CA founded Light & Motion in 1989. It has since grown into a premier vertically integrated manufacturer of outdoor recreation products. The product line consists of underwater imaging equipment and high-end bike lights. |
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Innate Based in Vancouver, Canada, and surrounded by the beauty of water, forests and mountains. Innate products are designed to be part of the active and healthy lives of people who set their own boundaries and make their own choices. Innate is dedicated to sustainable and transparent business practices. We believe in letting you know where and how our products are made, so you can make responsible choices. |
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Cocoon COCOON, the leading brand globally for lightweight sleep systems for travel and outdoor adventure, TravelSheets, MummyLiners and sleeping bags are the result of life-long travel experience. The COCOON story started in 1989 with a bulky, sewn-together cotton sheet that almost caused the founder of Design Salt to be swept away in a Balinese river while washing it. Since then COCOON products have seen a lot of improvement and perfection. They now come in numerous specially developed, high quality fabrics and a wide variety of functional details make them ideal companions for adventurers, travelers and mountaineers worldwide. |
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