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  2. JanSport - Wikipedia

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    JanSport is an American brand of backpacks and collegiate apparel, now owned by VF Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies. [1] JanSport is the world's largest backpack maker. Nearly half of all small backpacks sold in the United States are produced by JanSport and its sister brand The North Face , also owned by VF Corporation.

  3. William Seward Burroughs I - Wikipedia

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    He was awarded the Franklin Institute's John Scott Legacy Medal shortly before his death. [1] He was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame . [ 2 ] He was the grandfather of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs Jr. , who was also a writer.

  4. Backpack - Wikipedia

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    A 30 L top and bottom-loading Deuter Trans Alpine hiking backpack A 12 L front-loading Canon 200EG photography backpack. A backpack—also called knapsack, schoolbag, rucksack, pack, booksack, bookbag, haversack, packsack, or backsack—is, in its simplest frameless form, a fabric sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders; but it can have an external or ...

  5. Samsonite - Wikipedia

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    Effective September 1, 2005, Samsonite then moved its U.S. marketing and sales offices from Warren, Rhode Island, to Mansfield, Massachusetts. In 2005, the company was acquired by Marcello Bottoli, former CEO of Louis Vuitton, to pull it out of a long slump. [11] Bottoli left the company in 2009. [13] Luggage lock Samsonite Cosmolite suitcase ...

  6. Patagonia, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    $1.5 billion (2022 estimate) ... Number of employees. 3,000 (2024) [3] Website: patagonia.com: Patagonia, Inc. is an American retailer of outdoor recreation clothing ...

  7. James E. Winner Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The club installed on a car's steering wheel. James Earl Winner, Jr. (July 12, 1929 – September 14, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and chairman of Winner International who created The Club, an anti-theft device that is attached and locked on to a car's steering wheel, making it more difficult for car thieves to steal the car.

  8. Clayton Jacobson II - Wikipedia

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    Jacobson as a teenager. Jacobson was born in Multnomah County Hospital, Portland, Oregon, on October 12, 1933, to Clayton Jacobson and Sarah Fauntelle Shrock.The Jacobson family had mostly moved to the American West Coast by the early 1930s after having originally immigrated to Northfield, Minnesota, from Norway.

  9. Linus Yale Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Linus Yale Jr. was born in Salisbury, New York. His ancestors were of the same family as Elihu Yale, the benefactor to and namesake of the well known Yale University.The Yale family of America were all descended from the same ancestor, Thomas Yale, Elihu's only uncle with the Yale name.