Black Diamond Equipment

Southern California raised environmentalist and rock climber, Yvon Chouinard, is the man behind the Patagonia brand. Yvon started getting into the business by making chrome molybdenum steel pitons which he made out of reusable hardware. Yvon had a small shop in his parents’ Burbank, California home and sold his pitons for $3.00/pair. In 1965 Chouinard could not continue to hand make all of the pitons due to the demand of his products so he went into business with Tom Frost an engineer who was interested in his design aesthetic. By 1970 Chouinard Equipment was the biggest supplier of climbing tools and hardware in the nation. While rock climbing tools were growing more and more popular climbers continued to wear cut of khaki pants and generic tees. Wearing a multicolored striped rugby shirt that would protect his arms and neck Yvon set out to climb in Scotland. People went crazy over Yvon’s shirt and wanted to wear brightly colored high quality shirts to climb in as well. Yvon started ordering clothing through the company and within a few months shirts, gloves, and hats were being sold and re-ordered by popular demand. In 1973 Patagonia Inc. was started and since then has opened 53 strictly Patagonia brand stores and can be found in over 350 stores nationwide. The classic logo shows a skyline of Cerro Fitzroy, a mountain near El Chalten village, looking West into the land of…

company: Black diamond Sector of dealings: Sports equipment Selected country: Greece 1. Critical analysis and evaluation of company based on PESTLE: Black diamond is a sports equipment manufacturing company. If it is going to launch and introduce its products in Greece then there are a lot of factors which are going to affect all that. These factors include political, economical, sociological, technological, legal and environmental ones. Greece has an average GDP of $22000 per capita which…

illegal oil drilling by the Red Diamond Energy Corporation that has come to our attention. If they spilled any oil into the surrounding environment, it would have caused major destruction to the Florida wildlife. This letter contains everything we know about the Red Diamond Energy Corporation and it’s scam. Drake McBride’s (See government file 1978f7stz1 for more info on Drake McBride) very wealthy father was very fed up with his son. His father gave him many companies to own, yet in the…

There are so many options and ideas around photography in advertising, I love a challenge and during my research I came across the idea to photograph gemstones. Fire and brilliance are two categories under which we would find gems stones and diamonds. Optical gemology is the identifications term used to describe the characteristics of the color, transparency and luster of these breathtaking stones. The lusters the quality of light that reflects from the surface of a stone, observing the…

published was in black and white format, and colored issues were then introduced in the early 1900s. The images used in the magazine are all colored and in high definition. Although it appears to have more images than text in certain pages, the overall magazine has a good balance of text to images and the readability is relatively clear. The images in the articles are often larger than the text which allow readers to have a clear image of what the article is talking about, the articles usually…

able to do it. It involves wild animals being transformed into something more useful form humans, such as a cow for food or fertilization and plows. Many species by this time have dramatically changed in size rather it makes them bigger or just their brains smaller but having more developed organs. Keeping them as a pet is also an example of having them domesticated because they are tamed instead of wild. Dates of domestication are evidence found between 8,000-2500 B.C. and DNA and genetics is…

Prologue: History is the most important thing in the world because of how it affects people and societies all around the world. Traces of history go all the way back millions of years ago forming wealth and power to this day. In this book Jared Diamond is determined to explain why there were so many different rates of human development on different continents and to his traditional views and opinions. The "rise of civilization" conveys the opinions and true meanings behind civilization and how…

group in Brazil is white at 47.7%. Mulatto comes in very close at 43.1%. Black at 7.6%, Asian comes in at 1.1%, and indigenous at around 0.4% according to a 2010 estimate ("World", n.d.). The religions of Brazil are many, though the majority of them fall under Catholicism/Christianity. The most prominent religious affiliation is Roman Catholic at 64.6% followed by Protestant at 22.2%. There are many levels of various Catholic and Christian religions that are followed there. Spiritist comes…

As the author made mention, since the 1800s, black oral history has being filled with tales of doctors who unfortunately kidnapped black people for research. As the author also mentioned, many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on black people to develop new surgical techniques without informed consent. As black people migrated from north to Washington and Baltimore, the number of medical schools offering money in exchange for bodies also increased. As black corpses were routinely…

consequently affects underdevelopment, they are not the sole reasons for conflict, but rather a contributing factor that goes into affecting conflict. The argument of this paper however, is that the intervention of outside powers manipulating developing countries into an outcome that best suits the powers of the world, specifically in regards to natural resources, leads to conflict which ultimately affects underdevelopment. In a report by the United Nations, it is stated that in the past 60…