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Posted by alan on April 16, 2008 at 10:36:06 am EDT
In reply to Customer Service posted by hahayourdead941 on April 6, 2008 at 10:01:42 pm EDT

It's getting harder to keep track of who owns what these days. Hasn't Columbia bought up a bunch of brands as well? I think Columbia bought Moonstone and just shut down the brand. I didn't realize JWA was selling off companies, they had quite a large group at one time. JWA shut down Camp Trails some years ago. JWA's product line always seemed to be decent quality, middle of the road, but not high end products.

It's quite rare for a company to resist the urge to sell off, eventually the original owners, or their heirs, will have to sell. Western Mountaineering and Feathered Friends are two companies that come to mind that mostly the same as what they were 30 years ago. I don't know if the owners are the same, but they continue to make high end down bags in the US just like they started doing in the 1970's.

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