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Gempler's was sold in 2003 to Lab Safety Supply and the owners retained Duluth Trading Company. [3] Two years later in 2005, the first women's catalog was released. [2] In 2011, Duluth Trading Company aired its first nationwide ads featuring an angry beaver. [4] Duluth Trading Company's parent, Duluth Holdings, went public in 2015. [5]
He patented the design in 1882. The original #3 Duluth Packs have changed little since then, and came to be extensively used on wilderness canoe camping trips, giving prominence to both the name of the pack and the company. In 1911, Poirier sold off the canoe pack business to Duluth Tent and Awning on West Superior Street in downtown Duluth.
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It's on sale in both brown and black in sizes 34 to 48. Duluth is known for its durability, so this belt in particular is great for long wear and high impact work. $36 at Duluth Trading
Duluth is on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes. It is the largest metropolitan area, the second-largest city, and the largest U.S. city on the lake. Duluth is accessible to the Atlantic Ocean, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away, via the Great Lakes Waterway and St. Lawrence Seaway. [9]
The company continued to grow. According to the Pittsburgh Press, in 1989, Blair had capabilities to process 100,000 orders per day, and was shipping as many as 75,000 packages a day. It had sales in 1988 of US$414 million, US$506.8 million in 1998, and US$420 million in 2007. Blair had 15 million Americans on its mailing list. [8]
The building was designed in 1909 in the Chicago school style popularized by Louis Sullivan. [4] Its original tenant, the DeWitt–Seitz Company, was one of many jobbing companies founded in the port city of Duluth, buying goods from manufacturers in the eastern U.S. and Canada and selling them to growing inland markets in the west.
As a result, this retail sector went into decline in the 1980s. As big box stores and internet shopping became increasingly popular in the 1990s, the decline of the catalog merchant business accelerated. Many companies in recent years have moved away from relying solely on catalog sales, augmenting them with online sales or direct retail.