Customer of the Month
March 2005

Mont Bell
1147 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
www.montbell.com
Email: john-g@montbell.com
Phone: 303-449-5331
Toll Free: 877-666-8235
Fax: 720-565-2802

Mont Bell: Designed for those dedicated to meeting the challenges of nature.

On the North Face of the Eiger, Mont Bell was born. Isamu Tatsuno was 21 years old and on his first climbing trip outside of Japan In 1969, he became the youngest person to climb the Eiger's North Wall and his 21-hour ascent was the fastest ever.

The climb was a brilliant success and was even more impressive considering the limitations of the equipment used. It was a cumbersome and ill suited to the conditions the climber faced. - Tatsuno was damp beneath his clothing due to the effort of the climb and melt-water soaked on the outside. This experience gave Tatsuno the idea for Mont Bell - a company that strives to create clothing and equipment that is light, but provides comfort in all conditions.

Light & Fast(TM) is the simple philosophy born from extremes. Mont Bell offers lightweight, waterproof/breathable weather protection no matter what the conditions. This unique blend of "beauty is function" - Kinobi - drives product innovation at Mont Bell through impeccable attention to detail and the use of revolutionary materials. Focus is on how to make products more functional rather than using gimmicks and gadgets for appearance and/or marketing purposes - Light & Fast(TM) - yet designed to last. Mont Bell offers a complete line of equipment and clothing for all types of activities: from trekking and hiking to climbing and paddling to sleeping bags, tents and accessories.

Keeping with the basic premise of simple, Mont Bell uses two sizes of paper shopper bags - oatmeal kraft with their logo printed on the bottom center of their bag in hunter green ink. Mont Bell also uses apparel boxes made with 100% recycled content in natural kraft. Mont Bell has opted to use Just-In-Time Distribution to ensure they never run out of any of their packaging.

Take the time to stop by Mont Bell's web site or if your in the Boulder area, take a stroll through their store - be assured, you won't leave the store without a bag!

For each month's featured customer, Bags tries to showcase a customer who has used a unique approach to their packaging, and to share a little about their business with you. Hopefully this provides a bit of insight to how other businesses select their packaging products and to how Bags can help you find the right packaging for your business. Perhaps you can find a business similar to yours among the companies listed here. We continually provide links (see right column) to the past year's selections ... but all our featured customers' pages are also available. Contact one of our sales consultants for more information.

Bags Customer of the month program started in June 1999.

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