| Marmot Mountain, LLC. | |
| Former Name: | Marmot Mountain Works |
| Type: | Subsidiary |
| Location: | Rohnert Park, California |
| Key People: | Mark Martin |
| Industry: | Outdoor recreation, textile |
| Products: | Clothing |
| Parent: | Newell Brands |
Marmot is an outdoor recreation clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as "Marmot Mountain Works".[1] The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and Eric Reynolds, who shared the common goal of making their own mountaineering equipment.
After Jarden was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid in 2016,[2] Marmot was spun off from K2 and K2 Sports was sold to Kohlberg & Company in 2017. Marmot stayed with Newell.[3]
In 1976, Marmot ventured on another new business opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple of weeks, Marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. Reynolds and Huntley spent seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric, as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw and changed everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex fabrications.
Now based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is globally distributed and part of the Newell Brands.[4]