www.jansport.com
JanSport is the
most advanced thinker when it comes to developing backpacks; with a history
starting in the 60s JanSport is the original backpack developer.
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JanSport’s goal is to design, engineer, manufacture and market products
that can help you get from point A to point B, wherever that may be. And
they want to help you get there in the most functional way possible. JanSport
are well aware that the backpack that carries your books to school might
need to be the same backpack that carries your gear on a Saturday day
hike, so they incorporate flexibility into each and every design. It’s
what JanSport has been doing consistently for forty years and it’s the
concept that drives them today. |
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JanSport
History
Founded by Skip Yowell, Murray Pletz and Jan Lewis
In Seattle, Washington.
- 1967 Murry asked
Jan to marry him in return he names his brand after her: JanSport.
- 1968 JanSport manufactures
frame pack and the first pane; load daypack.
- 1970 JanSport receives
its first patent for the flexible frame pack design
- 1971 JanSport invents
dome tents, the model for all dome tents today.
- 1975 First convertible
travel pack was a little ahead of its time, didn’t gain real popularity
until the mid-eighties.
- 1976 JanSport introduces
its classic daypack. Its design remains unchanged to this day.
- 1985 First million
daypacks sold.
- 1986 JanSport becomes
part of the VF Corporation
- 1992 JanSport celebrates
its 25th anniversary
- 1996 JanSport goes
global, opens a site on the World Wide Web and pioneers the rubber bottom
pack
- 1999 Introduction
of ultra-comfortable airlifts and loadlift backpacks with gelastic gellycome,
shoulder straps and improved load transfer.
- 2001 JanSport redefines
technical line products based on these specific consumer profiles. The
line is further expanded to include their first technical products designed
especially for women.
- 2002 JanSport is
USA’s biggest backpack-brand worldwide there are 34.000 JanSport bags
sold per day!!!
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For further information
and a complete guide to help you find your perfect JanSport bag, please
visit our
website |
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www.jansport.com
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