Jerry Norquist, the Executive Director of CycleOregon explains how cycling and infrastructure boosts the economy in rural communities.
Venture Sports is now the Southeast sales agency for Goodhew and Sockwell! Goodhew creates a sock for every walk of life by using American craftsmanship to spin fresh design and natural performance yarns to create high performance socks for everyday life.
Sockwell is a Goodhew solution for therapeutic socks. By combining natural, high performance yarns with cutting-edge knitting techniques and a fresh eye for design and color, Sockwell has redefined the therapeutic sock category.
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Our amigos north of the border at Ambler hired Eryn Willard as the new brand manager. Eryn will be leading the marketing and outreach efforts, and will be tapping into her background in graphic design to create all sales materials for the brand.
“Ambler lured me away from the agency-side of the business by promising me a steady supply of hats to satisfy my addiction…” said Willard. “Even better is that I get to work with a fun group of people who are committed to social good and creating stellar products.”
Eryn comes to Ambler with over 15 years of experience in marketing, six of which include owning a brand communications firm serving outdoor industry clients in apparel and accessories. Her expertise will play a pivotal role in Ambler’s launch of their 2013 summer collection, an introductory line of casual style hats and tote bags for warm weather adventures. This is the first line of its kind for the Canmore, Alberta company and includes lightweight and comfortable styles for children and adults.
“Eryn will have to learn to love Canadian beer because we aren’t loosening our vice grip around her anytime soon,” said owner Christian Rawles. “We love her creativity and steadfast passion for this brand and are absolutely thrilled to have her in the family.”
Eryn is a passionate snowboarder, climber and mountain biker, and serves on the board of directors of Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition (OIWC).
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Winning awards isn’t new for PROBAR but it sure does make us proud. That is why we are beaming at receiving several recent honors ranging from best business practices to healthy food awards for our new spring releases.
Since the release of PROBAR’s two new spring lines—four new Meal-Replacement flavors and a re-formulated gluten-free fruition™ bar lineup—PROBAR has received industry and consumer media honors for both product lines and a distinction highlighting the company’s business practices. Most recently, PROBAR’s new gluten-free fruition bars earned the title of “Best Bar” in Prevention Magazine’s Annual Healthiest Food Awards. Earlier this spring, PROBAR’s new Double Chocolate Meal-Replacement Bar was recognized by New Hope Media as a “Top 10” standout from the 2012 Expo West Natural Foods Tradeshow. Additionally, PROBAR snacks have also been recommended and featured this spring in Runner’s World, Backpacker, Outside, Triathlete and Pilates Style Magazines.
In addition to our food, we’re also pretty proud of how we run our business. Our biased opinion was recently validated when PROBAR took home Utah’s coveted “Best of State” Business Award for the second year running. The award, bestowed upon the Utah’s most successful, innovative and community-oriented businesses, judges businesses by series of metrics that measure industry success and achievements, innovation and creativity, and contributions toward improving community life.
In PROBAR’s Core Values statement—a document that every employee knows backward and forward—the first entry reads: “Treat Business Like You Treat Family.” Starting with this basic doctrine PROBAR has emerged as a leader in the Utah business community, has developed as a workplace dedicated toward healthy, happy employees, and has helped fuel our company’s successes toward the pursuit of delicious, convenient, healthy, plant-based food. We are mindful to share all these successes with our customers, business partners, friends and families who have helped make us what we are; thanks everyone.
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