Chèque cadeau Miteq

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Smartwool

juil 10, 2010 Commentaires fermés

History

SmartWool was born with comfort in mind. Our founders were New England ski instructors struggling to keep their feet warm. After trying a variety of materials, they rediscovered an age-old classic: wool. But while these socks may have been warm, they were itchy and shrank. So they worked on a process to make them soft and easy care. SmartWool was born on a simple belief: keeping feet comfortable on the slopes.
But it was a difficult sell. Try as they might, they couldn’t initially convince others of the material’s merits. No one believed that a wool sock could be anything but itchy. Out of frustration, they finally challenged people to try them. And this simple tactic changed the course of SmartWool forever and pioneered a new market transformation for wool performance products. The instant people tried them they were awestruck with SmartWool’s soft luxurious feel. They were even more surprised that their feet stayed comfortable for extended periods of time in mixed weather conditions. Instead of getting clammy, the SmartWool socks stayed dry, soft and comfortable. The founders then realized that they had to get their socks on as many people as possible to let them speak for themselves.
This created a buzz not unlike the shearing of a sheep. Magazines caught wind of the material and in 1995 Backpacker tested SmartWool against all other comers, awarding it its coveted Editors’ Choice award for best hiking sock. The company received the same honor in 1996 for its trekking socks, and won the award yet again for its new base layer line in 1998 before the first product was even shipped.
These awards catapulted SmartWool’s Extraordinary Comfort onto more and more feet and bodies. And a funny thing happened once people started trying SmartWool: word about their comfort and performance spread like wildfire. Fueling this was the company’s commitment to using only the finest wool in the world: New Zealand merino, which produce the softest, strongest and whitest wool on the planet. The company has built intimate, long-standing relationships with its growers, who are in tune with their land and sheep and have become great partners in growing the best wool possible.
The next step was obvious. Since people enjoyed SmartWool’s comfort in its performance socks and base layers, why not make socks they can wear all the time? Since hiking socks don’t go well with dress slacks, SmartWool launched its everyday-use lifestyle line in 2004, bringing extraordinary comfort to daily life with fun, fashionable designs. Both socks and apparel now enjoy worldwide distribution, satisfying the needs of walkers, runners, skiers, cyclists, climbers, hikers and anyone else who enjoys the comfort and performance the company’s founders discovered more than 10 years ago on those cold slopes of New England.

Icebreaker

juil 10, 2010 Commentaires fermés

Inspiration from Nature

http://www.icebreaker.com/

Jeremy Moon, CEO and Founder

When I began visiting the stations where merino wool was grown, I met incredible families that had tended the vast run-holds for generations. I was overwhelmed by the beauty, power, and vastness of their stations.

We try and capture that feeling through our photography, most of which is shot in the Southern Alps.

Simple observations yielded breakthroughs. The merino sheep is shorn in summer, and is left with a thin layer that breathes in the heat before the animal bulks up for winter.

That was the trigger to develop the world’s first merino wool layering system.

Our system was based on the knowledge that the merino wool we were sourcing was created by nature to keep an animal alive in the mountains. If it didn’t work, the animal would die. Ever since then, we’ve seen our role as turning this fibre into a clothing system that enables people to return to the mountains. We can’t design a better fibre – in fact, we don’t want to. Our challenge is to make merino relevant for another species – us.

But it soon went deeper than that, and became an inquiry about how nature works, and about our interaction with nature. In 1998, there was a moment of clarity and we came up with our mantra: “It’s about our relationship to nature, and to each other”. Someone once asked me if there was anything more to it, but to me it said everything. It’s not a slogan; it’s our way of thinking.

Patagonia

juin 19, 2010 Commentaires fermés

Notre raison d’être

http://www.patagonia.com/ca/home
(Yvon Chouinard, fondateur de Patagonia 6e à partir de la gauche)

Fabriquer les meilleurs produits en causant le moindre impact environnemental, utiliser le monde des affaires pour inspirer et mettre en place des solutions à la crise environnementale.

Nos valeurs reflètent nos origines, une entreprise créée par un petit groupe de grimpeurs et de surfeurs qui prônaient un art de vivre minimaliste. Une démarche que nous avons décidé de suivre dans la conception de nos produits et qui démontre un parti pris envers la simplicité et le fonctionnalisme.

Chez Patagonia, notre attachement pour les espaces sauvages nous donne la volonté de nous battre pour les préserver et nous a menés à nous engager pour lutter contre le processus de déclin manifeste de la santé environnementale de notre planète. Nous consacrons du temps, nous offrons nos services et reversons au moins 1 % de notre chiffre d’affaires à des centaines d’associations environnementales dans le monde entier qui s’activent à inverser la tendance.

Nous savons que les activités de l’entreprise, de l’éclairage de nos magasins à la teinture de nos chemises participent à la pollution qu’engendrent la conception et la vente de nos produits. C’est pourquoi nous travaillons assidûment à la réduire. Nous utilisons du polyester recyclé pour fabriquer bon nombre de nos vêtements, et nous n’employons que du coton biologique au lieu de celui cultivé massivement avec des pesticides.

D’avoir gardé vivantes nos valeurs intrinsèques pendant plus de trente ans, nous a aidés à créer une entreprise que nous sommes fiers de diriger et pour laquelle nous sommes fiers de travailler. Notre opiniâtreté à fabriquer des vêtements de la meilleure qualité possible nous a permis de réussir à nous imposer sur le marché.