Tucked down a Sodo driveway next to an architectural salvage yard lies one of the fashion world’s most coveted manufacturers ... a-Rest sleeping pads to JanSport backpacks.

After the death of Murray McCory, a founder of the outdoors equipment company JanSport, readers recalled how their backpacks served them on life’s journeys. By Amisha Padnani Amisha Padnani is ...

Murray McCory, a free-spirited outdoorsman who co-founded the rugged gear and pack company JanSport, designed a widely imitated dome tent, and created a durable but lightweight backpack that ...

By Clay Risen Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for ...

In the late 1960s, Murray and his girlfriend Jan Lewis founded JanSport (see what they did there?), a local manufacturer of recreation equipment such as backpacks, tents and sleeping bags.

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students ...

Once JanSport figured out how to make a lightweight backpack suitable for carrying books and supplies, it sold the product at the University of Washington bookstore. There, more stereotypically ...

Neighbors Rachel Farrell and Lacey Good, quickly joined by several other mothers, started a very grassroots effort to have school supplies, books and backpacks ready for kids when their schools ...

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is rerouting orders previously placed with Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) to other suppliers, to contain the disruption within the AI server industry, Digitimes reported.

The department, which has largely depended on security self-assessments by its suppliers in the past, has been criticized for some time by its Inspector General for weak supervision of its suppliers.