davismsmith

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by davismsmith 12y ago
Equipos Cotopaxi is a retailer in Ecuador. Cotopaxi is a product brand in the United States. This is pretty common across the world to have different companies, doing different things, in different countries, with similar names. ;) Love the
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by davismsmith 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback, micro_cam. We just relaunched our site today and simultaneously launched our apparel today. We had to rush to get everything live, so many of your requests are coming soon. Thanks for your patience! Keep in mind tha
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by davismsmith 12y ago
Absolutely. We had an AP photo journalist visit us on trips to our factories. Our pack factory has over 3,000 people who have worked there for over 10 years (the factory only had about 4-5k employees 10 years ago), so retention is insanely
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by davismsmith 12y ago
bikamonki, que tal? Thanks for your feedback. I'm the founder and while I'm American, I moved to Latin America when I was four. I spent my entire childhood and early teenage years in the region, including Ecuador. I've also s
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by davismsmith 12y ago
ronbo, we work hard to find a measurable way to show our impact and I think you're right in pointing out that this isn't great. The way we calculated this was by dividing the entire cost of the project by the number of bricks need
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by davismsmith 12y ago
podviaznikov - This is Davis Smith, the founder of Cotopaxi. I also love the name! I'm not from Ecuador, but I moved to Latin America when I was 4 years old and spent part of my childhood and teenage years in Ecuador. I used to go camp