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Duluth Pack’s Annual Arbor Day Campaign; Buy a Pack, We Give Back Is Now Available

Since 2018, Duluth Pack and with the help of customers have planted over 10,000 trees in Minnesota.

DULUTH, MINN – Monday, April 20th – Duluth Pack has brought back its company-wide and month-long Arbor Day campaign called, “Buy A Pack, We Give Back.” Due to the company’s success with the philanthropic campaign since 2018, the Made in America business has extended for its third year in a row. For every Duluth Pack manufactured product sold, Duluth Pack will properly plant a tree with the Minnesota DNR team.

“There is nothing more rewarding than giving back and making a difference,” said Tom Sega, Duluth Pack’s President and CEO. “As an original heritage American outdoors company, we want to give back and make a positive impact.”

Starting today, Monday, April 20^th the campaign kicks-off the third year of “Buy A Pack, We Give Back” prior to Earth Day. With every purchase of Duluth Pack handcrafted products, in their signature 16 different colors, assorted wools, and sustainable American leather options, a tree will be planted in the local area. The month-long promotion gives customers a chance to physically see how supporting local and Made in USA businesses pays off. The month-long campaign will be available to participate on their internationally shopped website at DuluthPack.com.

“This campaign is about paying it forward. Purchase a product that promotes small, local and Made in USA business all while supporting the greater good by planting a tree,” added Andrea Johnson, Duluth Pack’s Marketing Manager. “We wanted this donation campaign to be accessible to all of our customers – local and international.”

Duluth Pack encourages all of their customers to get out and enjoy the great outdoors and their quality products help people to do just that. Sega went on to say, “The Future Forest Fund has helped us engage with the community and individuals to fulfill our mission of maintaining Minnesota’s wilderness areas so that everyone has a place to adventure.”

These efforts could not be done without the outstanding support from the Minnesota DNR who are partnering again with Duluth Pack for the 2020 promotion. Together the collaboration celebrated the planting of over 10,000 trees planted in Minnesota since 2018. For this year, the company has a goal to achieve over 5,000 trees planted with the public’s help and participation. Duluth Pack encourages all its customers to get outside once it is safe to do so and give back!

Duluth Pack offers a large selection of original apparel, outdoor gear, home/cabin accessories and, of course, their legendary handcrafted and lifetime guaranteed packs, totes, and outdoor bags.

For more information regarding the Arbor Day campaign, please visit Duluth Pack’s social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), visit the Duluth Pack Retail Store at 365 Canal Park Drive, the company’s website at DuluthPack.com or call the Duluth Pack Headquarters at (218) 722-1707.

About Duluth Pack

Duluth Pack is the oldest canvas and leather bag and pack maker in the USA. For 138 years, Duluth Pack has been located in Duluth, MN, manufacturing high quality, built-to-last canvas and leather bags, packs, and outdoor gear in a century-old factory. Duluth Pack maintains the handcrafted American made heritage, and one-customer-at-a-time way of doing business that the brand has always valued. Duluth Pack craftsmen and craftswomen value and use the same artisanal techniques that the company has used since its beginning. Duluth Pack offers a lifetime guarantee on craftsmanship and on the hardware of all products. Customers understand that Duluth Packs have the unique ability to capture stories and evoke memories; this is what makes Duluth Pack special.

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Protective Face Masks Now Available from Masterfit

First and foremost, we at Masterfit Enterprises hope you are safe and healthy at this difficult period of our lifetimes. Our Metro New York-based team has sadly lost some relatives and friends to COVID-19. So far, everyone associated with Masterfit has escaped the ravages of the virus. We hope your friends, family and co-workers have too.

Masterfit has used our sourcing connections to secure an on-going supply of Type II surgical-style and KN95 respirator protective face masks. After a two-week shut down, we have resumed operations but pivoted to selling protective face masks using our logistics, sales, marketing and fulfillment skills. 

We are helping where we can do the most good and are primarily supplying healthcare facilities, first responder departments, governmental agencies, airlines, supermarkets and other essential public interfacing organizations who are having difficulty obtaining necessary face masks during the current pandemic crisis. It has been rewarding for us to help these organizations keep their employees, patients, citizens and customers safe.

We’d also like to extend a hand to our industry compatriots. We are making limited quantities of our protective face masks available to you with a special industry discounted.

Visit the Masterfit COVID-19 webstore and use the coupon code FOMCOVID1910 to receive 10% off your surgical mask order. You may purchase up to 100 surgical style masks using your discount and 40 KN95s per week (at regular price). You may share the discount code with your employees and co-workers but PLEASE KEEP DISTRIBUTION WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION. This is a special courtesy we are extending to outdoor industry members. You may share the link itself without the coupon code with others who may be seeking masks. Our regular prices are among the lowest to be found at the current time. 

We wish you good health and safety during this unprecedented health crisis and look forward to again sharing fun times outdoors in the future.

Steve Cohen for the Masterfit Team

Covington, LA – SPOT, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) and a leading provider of satellite messaging and emergency notification technologies, today announced a licensing deal with the Jeep_® brand. As part of an effort to expand its footprint in the overland adventure market, Globalstar is developing an exclusive new line of Jeep and SPOT™ co-branded products. 

SPOT offers off-road enthusiasts and back-country adventurers’ critical connectivity in remote areas of the world. Products include emergency response and international S.O.S. services, giving peace of mind to hundreds of thousands of users globally. To date, SPOT has achieved over 7,000 rescues, in more than 100 countries.

“The Jeep brand is one of the most recognized in off-roading with enthusiasts who often transition to hiking and mountain climbing, all of which would benefit by staying connected while off the grid,” said Dave Kagan, CEO of Globalstar. “We are proud to announce this new partnership and look forward to future collaborations in the years to come.”

“Expanding the Jeep brand’s licensing portfolio to now include Globalstar extends the brand’s ability to offer its customers endless opportunities to pursue their adventures once the road ends, in a connected and safe manner,” said Kim Adams House, Head of Licensing and Merchandising, FCA.”

The partnership is expected to drive consumer awareness of SPOT through cross-promotional opportunities while exploring new distribution channels. SPOT expects to have these products available in all their distribution channels starting in 2Q 2020.

About SPOT:
SPOT LLC, a subsidiary of Globalstar, Inc., provides affordable satellite communication and tracking devices for recreational and business use. SPOT messaging devices use both the GPS satellite network and the Globalstar Satellite Network to transmit and receive text messages and GPS coordinates. Since 2007, SPOT has provided peace of mind by allowing customers to remain in contact with family, friends and co-workers, completely independent of cellular coverage and has helped initiate over 7,000 rescues worldwide. For more information, visit FindMeSPOT.com.

Note that all SPOT products described in this press release are the products of SPOT LLC, which is not affiliated in any manner with Spot Image of Toulouse, France or Spot Image Corporation of Chantilly, Virginia. SPOT Connect is a trademark of Spot LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

About Jeep:
Built on more than 75 years of legendary heritage, Jeep is the authentic SUV with class-leading capability, craftsmanship and versatility for people who seek extraordinary journeys. The Jeep brand delivers an open invitation to live life to the fullest by offering a full line of vehicles that continue to provide owners with a sense of security to handle any journey with confidence.

The Jeep vehicle lineup consists of the Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, Renegade and Wrangler. To meet consumer demand around the world, all Jeep models sold outside North America are available in both left- and right-hand drive configurations and with gasoline and diesel powertrain options. Jeep is part of the portfolio of brands offered by global automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. For more information regarding FCA (NYSE: FCAU/ MTA: FCA), please visit www.fcagroup.com.

Zurich, April 20, 2020 – With immediate effect, the OEKO-TEX® Association will waive the license fee for STANDARD 100 certification of mouth and nose masks.

With the current demand and expert recommendations to wear mouth and nose coverings in public, OEKO-TEX® wants to support continued safety of the population. “We need to stay together in this extraordinary situation: now and for our future,” said General Secretary Georg Dieners. “The crisis challenges many manufacturers who are confronted with a logistically difficult task.”

This industry support follows the process modifications for certificate renewals during the Corona pandemic. This adjustment offers an important service for producers of face masks while ensuring continued sustainability and public safety from harmful substances during the corona crisis. https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/news/press-releases

Today, Salomon, the four-season mountain brand, announces that it will shift from prototyping gear in its Annecy, France headquarters to developing reusable, non-medical grade face masks to fight the spread of COVID-19. The Annecy Design Center (ADC) is home to specialists in textile production who typically work with athletes to design prototypes of the latest in Salomon’s gear, footwear and apparel product ranges. Now, their decades of experience will go toward developing protective face masks that will be used to protect against the spread of COVID-19, with the goal of delivering 90,000 from April through June.

“On a normal morning, we might make a prototype shoe for Kilian Jornet to summit Everest and follow it with an afternoon of designing sports bras for our running range,” says Jean-Noel Thevenoud, manager of the prototype lab in Annecy. “This is a much different project for us, but the team here has been eager to help since the crisis started. When we got the call last week, everyone was ready to dive right in. We are happy to have a way to contribute and to be able to use our team’s skills to help in these times.”

Faced with the shortage of protective masks in the country, the French government recently launched a national appeal to the French textile industry for aid. A French company, Chamatex, proposed a solution—washable and reusable textile multilayer masks—and reached out to Salomon to move forward with production due to the brand’s existing infrastructure and eagerness expressed by the brand to produce prototype gear to fight the pandemic. The non-medical grade masks are certified by the DGA (Direction Général de l’Armement) and will be intended primarily for French administrations and industrialists in all sectors of the business community in the near future.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty in the world these days, and we’re all doing our best to make the most of tough situations and help with whatever means we have available to us,” says Becky Marcelliano, outdoor marketing manager at Salomon in North America. “Individually, we all understand that the best way to help is by staying home. As a company, we are trying to contribute with whatever means we have available to us, whether that means donating shoes to hospital staff here in the US and across France, partnering with our athletes to raise money or completely rewriting the script for our prototype lab to develop masks. Locally, we are also working daily on some other ways to help those in need until we’re safe, healthy and able to play outside again.”

For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/3apCTHs

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About Salomon: Born in the French Alps in 1947, Salomon is committed to pushing the boundaries of mountain sports through the creation of innovative equipment that allows people to play, progress and challenge themselves in their chosen outdoor sports. The company produces and sells premium footwear, winter sports and mountaineering equipment, hiking equipment, and apparel specifically designed for all of those disciplines. Products are developed in the company’s Annecy Design Center, where engineers, designers and athletes collaborate to create innovative solutions that continually improve the outdoor experiences of those who see nature as a vast playground.  

Alex Honnold shares his support of Earth Day’s 50^th Anniversary.  Earth Day 2020 brings together an unprecedented collection of voices including Zac Efton, Patricia Espinosa, Al Gore, Denis Hayes, Alex Honnold, Van Jones, Anil Kapoor, John Kerry, Prince Albert of Monaco, and Kyra Sedgwick to share their support for our planet for the 50^th Anniversary

Special Earth Day Address from His Holiness Pope Francis to be included in Earth Day

“The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.” – His Holiness Pope Francis, Earth Day 2015

Washington, D.C. and Denver, CO, April 15, 2020 — With the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day (April 22) fast approaching, now more than ever we need to connect as a global community united in our fight to protect the health and welfare of the planet and its people. 

In support of this global movement, illustrious and preeminent religious leaders, environmental advocates, celebrities, musicians and government officials will be celebrating Earth Day with a variety of first-person video pieces demonstrating their commitment to our planet.

These messages, talks, teach-ins and performances will be part of Earth Day Network’s robust 15-hour (9am ET to 11pm ET) live digital event on the homepage for the planet, earthday.org, as well as part of a comprehensive social media partnership with Twitter (#EarthDay2020), and as part of Earth Day Live.

The incredible lineup of personal video messages for Earth Day 2020 includes:

• Ed Begley, Jr., Actor, Environmentalist, Global Advisory Committee Member
• Zdeno Chara, Captain of the Boston Bruins
• Sylvia Earle, World-renowned Marine Biologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
• Zac Efron, Actor and Global Advisory Committee Member
• Patricia Espinosa, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
• Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Jerome Foster II, White House Climate Striker and Founder of OneMillionOfUs
• Al Gore, Former Vice President, Global Environmental Advocate, and Award-winning Filmmaker
• Denis Hayes, Organizer of the first Earth Day, Board Chair Emeritus of Earth Day Network and President, CEO, The Bullitt Foundation
• Alex Honnold, Free Climber and star of Oscar-Winning Documentary, Free Solo
• Van Jones, News Commentator
• Licypriya Kangujam, Youth Climate Activist and Founder of The Child Movement
• Anil Kapoor, Award-winning Actor, Producer, and Global Advisory Committee Member
• Ricky Kej, Grammy-Winning Musician and Global Advisory Committee Member
• John Kerry, 68th Secretary of State, Global Advisory Committee Member, Founder of World War Zero
• Thomas Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University.
• Bill McKibben, Founder of org
• His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, Global Advisory Committee Member
• Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Filmmaker, Photographer and Marine Biologist
• Kyra Sedgwick, Actress, Producer, Director, and Global Advisory Committee Member
• Alexandria Villaseñor, Founder and Executive Director of Earth Uprising
• Lennox Yearwood Jr., President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus and Global Advisory Committee Member

“This unprecedented time has stopped us all in our tracks,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of Earth Day Network. “As each of us ensures that those around us are safe and well, it is in a momentous opportunity to examine our individual and collective relationship with the natural world and how our activities impact the planet. The way forward is hopeful, and we have an opportunity to forever change how we interact with the environment in our own backyard and our community at large.”

Earth Day 2020 is comprised of a multi-faceted program intended to activate individuals to support their planet in a safe and responsible way during the coronavirus pandemic. Titled “24 Hours of Action,” Earth Day Network will reveal an action an hour that individuals can do to support our planet. Earth Day 2020 also includes a 15-hour digital Earth Day Live program on earthday.org, featuring long-form and short-form content with interactive programming, live appearances by religious leaders, celebrities, musicians, as well as live teach-ins with preeminent scientists and advocates.

In addition, individuals can participate in Earth Challenge 2020, a global citizen science initiative that will help build an open source database on air quality and plastic pollution using an app on your smartphone from the safety of your home.

About Earth Day Network    

Earth Day 2020 comes 50 years after the first Earth Day which, in 1970, mobilized over 20 million citizens to demand action on the environmental challenges of the time. Today, Earth Day is observed in around 190 countries and close to 100,000 organizations. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. To learn more, visit earthday.org.

360 Adventure Collective, the trusted member association that has brought focused, regional events for sales reps and retailers for over 40 years, today announced that the Southeast Summer Expo and the Alabama Summer Expo have been rescheduled for August 2020.

The Southeast Summer Expo, initially slated for June 17-20, will now take place August 4-7 in the same location (the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, SC). The Alabama Summer Expo, initially scheduled for July 8-9, will now take place August 12-13 in the same location (the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center in Birmingham, AL).

The change of dates comes after the cancellation of the Mid-Atlantic Summer Expo (which was slated for June 9-11 in Edison, NJ) and the New England Summer Expo (originally scheduled for June 16-18 in Manchester, NH) due to social distancing measures put in place to limit the COVID-19 outbreak. 360 Adventure Collective is currently reviewing alternative show dates for both cancelled events.

“Our sales reps, retailers, and vendors depend on these regional events to build strong, effective relationships in the outdoors industry. 360 AC is proud to provide a support system for those relationships, and we are committed to delivering excellence,” affirms Stacey Gellert, Executive Director of 360 Adventure Collective. “In making this decision, we’ve carefully surveyed our membership and taken into account all current projections of COVID-19. We want to ensure the health and safety of our members. Knowing how much our members count on these events, we are currently working to reschedule the Mid-Atlantic and New-England shows as well.”

View all of 360 Adventure Collective’s upcoming events at 360adventurecollective.org/event-calendar. To learn more about 360 Adventure Collective, visit www.360adventurecollective.org or email Mandy Giles at mandy@darbycommunications.com.

About 360 Adventure Collective

EORA (Eastern Outdoor Reps Association) and NESR (New England Sports Reps) united in 2017 to create 360 Adventure Collective, a greater organization boasting a combined 40 years of success in connecting the most comprehensive offerings in outdoor and ski apparel, footwear, accessories, and hard goods to the industry’s retailers who matter the most. By hosting smaller, more conveniently located expos and markets than the national alternatives, 360 Adventure Collective is the traveling sales rep’s most trusted support system for maximizing connections with retailers and vendors. 360 Adventure Collective has over 675 members with 14 annual shows, and services over 2,900 retailers. For more information or to become a member, visit https://360adventurecollective.org/.

For more than 40 years, Superfeet has lived by this truth: “People first – together we are more than a company, we are a community,” which is why the employee-owned business is rolling out two new programs to help support their specialty retail partners during this challenging time.

For retail partners looking to offer customers the convenience of at-home delivery without having to ship inventory from their store, Superfeet will drop-ship to the end consumer free of charge. And for those who cannot sell online, or are looking to generate supplemental income, Superfeet developed an affiliate program to share revenue from sales on Superfeet.com.  The brand has created a suite of assets including blog posts and images for use on a retailer’s website, newsletters and social media.

“For the past 43 years our retailers have worked alongside our team to build the Superfeet brand, and we believe there is no better time to show our support for them than right now, during this time of uncertainty. We’re doing all we can to protect the health, safety and well-being of our community from employee-owners and their families, to essential service providers, to our retailers,” says John Rauvola, CEO and President at Superfeet.

The two specialty retail relief programs are available effective immediately and retailers who are interested in learning more should contact their Superfeet representative.

ABOUT SUPERFEET: For more than 40 years, Pacific Northwest-based Superfeet has been creating innovative products featuring the Superfeet^® shape, helping millions of people worldwide experience unparalleled comfort, pain relief and performance. Today, through Fitstation and the latest advancements in 3D-printing technology, Superfeet is taking insoles and footwear from mass-produced products to personalized, made-for-you solutions. A 100% employee-owned company, Superfeet gives 1% of sales and countless volunteer hours to help others shape a strong foundation for a healthy future. For more, visit superfeet.com.

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Made in USA Companies; Duluth Pack and Stormy Kromer Partner Up For the Greater Good and Make Hospital and Healthcare Gowns.

For days, Duluth Pack has been preparing and working with American hospitals and healthcare centers to help with the much-needed requests for producing and creating hospital gowns and accessories. As of this morning, we are very proud to step-in during this global COVID-19 crisis and partner with our great friends at Stormy Kromer. Together we will be crafting Made in the USA hospital gowns for our wonderful medical professionals who are keeping us healthy and safe.

The Duluth Pack and Stormy Kromer teams of hard-working American craftspeople are following protocols and we are doing everything we can to create the safest environment for our workers and those sewing and crafting these essential hospital gowns.

We will get through this together.

Keep an eye on our email newsletters and our social channels for the latest updates.

• From your friends and family at Duluth Pack.