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Marmot Mountain Ltd.

is in the Manufacturing Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$43.0M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Eric did a winter ascent of the Grand Teton in Wyoming with Tom Boyce of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1973. Eric and Dave joined Tom in Colorado that next Spring. There, the threesome rented a 100 year old stone building near downtown that used to be a grocery store, and opened a rental and retail shop under the name of Marmot Mountain Works. They taught cross-country skiing in the winter to get by. Thus, in the spring of 1974, Marmot the company was born. That fall, Tom was climbing in Peru. There he met famed adventure filmmaker Mike Hoover. A few weeks after his return, Tom received a call from Mike. Mike explained he was calling on behalf of 20th Century Fox, was filming something called The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood, and needed 108 very puffy jackets. "No problem", said Tom, "we were working on that when you called." Well, they weren't, but they then did. Within a week, the Marmots had designed the Golden Mantle (very puffy jacket). Marmot was now in the movies. It also had its biggest order to date. Eric met Joe Tanner of W.L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. in Elkton, Maryland in 1976. Eric was one of the firsts in the US to see a new concept in outdoor performance fabrication: Gore-Tex. He was intrigued and, within a couple weeks, had sewn prototype sleeping bags in the new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. He and Dave proceeded to spend the next seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric. ...

Number of Employees 78
Contact Information

2321 Circadian Way

Santa Rosa, California 95407

www.marmot.com

(707) 544-4590

NAICS Code Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Other Outerwear Manufacturing: 315228

News & Analysis

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  • Morrow Snowboards announces clothing agreement with Marmot Mountain Ltd

    - 1997-01-14

    SALEM, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 14, 1997--Morrow Snowboards Inc. (NASDAQ:MRRW), a technical leader in the snowboard business, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Marmot Mountain Ltd., a technical leader in mountain clothing, under which Marmot will provide design, development and manufacturing services for a Morrow line of snowboard clothing....

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