3 Companies in Fashion and Apparel

While this company’s “swoosh” is now one of the most familiar symbols in the world, the Eugene, OR-based company—co-founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964—got its start as a distributor of Japanese running shoes;...

Columbia Sportswear is based in the Pacific Northwest oasis that is Portland, Oregon. The company was started by the Boyle family in 1937. After fleeing Nazi Germany, the family settled in Portland and began the Columbia Hat Company as a means...

Outdoor apparel and lifestyle merchant Patagonia is one of those companies that eschews the relentless pursuit of shareholder value in order to give something back to the community, if not the planet. The company donates one percent of all sales...