Columbia Sportswear
| Columbia Sportswear Company
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US1985161066 |
| founding | 1938 |
| Seat |
Portland , United States
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| management | Timothy P. Boyle, CEO |
| Number of employees | 6511 |
| sales | 2,802,000,000 USD |
| Branch | Clothing, sportswear, outdoor, trail running, yoga, fitness |
| Website | www.columbia.com |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
Columbia Sportswear is an American sporting goods manufacturer founded in 1938 . Columbia is known for outdoor clothing and ski fashion .
2018 Columbia could record sales of 2.8 billion US dollars have. Today Columbia employs approximately 6500 people worldwide. The products are sold in 100 states through more than 13,000 retailers .
history
The company's history began with the Jewish textile manufacturer Paul Lamfrom, who recognized the plans of the Nazis early on and fled Germany in 1937. He gave up his business in Augsburg, then Germany's largest shirt factory, and fled with his family to Portland, Oregon.
There Paul and Marie Lamfrom founded Columbia Sportswear in 1938 as the Columbia Hat Company . The small family business initially only produced hats . The nearby Columbia River was the inspiration for the company name. Problems with suppliers ultimately caused the company to switch to producing everything from fashion goods to fishing vests, shirts - and everything that was available in the 1940s in "outdoor clothing".
Ten years later, Paul and Marie Lamfrom's daughter , Gertrude "Gert" Boyle (1924–2019), who was born in Augsburg , took over the company and held the executive position together with her husband Neal. Neal died in 1970, so that Gert and Neal's son, Tim Boyle, joined the management of the company. This saved Columbia Sportswear from imminent bankruptcy . Various novel functions in Columbia fashion ensured an extreme boom and growth of the plant.
The well-known brands Sorel, Mountain Hardwear, Pacific Trail and Montrail are now also part of the group.
Engagement in cycling
The company sponsored the cycling team Team Columbia , which emerged from Team Telekom (since 2003 Team T-Mobile ). Columbia Sportswear began sponsoring on July 5, 2008 with the team's start in the 2008 Tour de France ; it was initially dated three years. Both the men's and women's teams were sponsored. Since January 1st, 2011 the team is called HTC-Highroad , because Columbia ended the sponsorship.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2018 Form 10-K Report ( en , pdf) Retrieved on March 2, 2019.
- ↑ about us ( Memento of September 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - Official homepage
- ↑ New sponsor: High Road becomes "Team Columbia" - Rad-Net
- ↑ radsport-news.com: Sponsor Columbia is leaving at the end of the season , accessed on October 7, 2010.