Specialty outdoor retailer REI Co-op today announced Shannon Damen has joined the company and will assume the role of chief ...

Damen joins the co-op from Gap, Inc., where she was most recently global head of real estate and held roles as chief ...

REI president and CEO Mary Beth Laughton issued a video apology on Wednesday for the brand’s endorsement of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in February. The endorsement, which REI made alongside ...

CEO Mary Beth Laughton has publicly apologized and retracted REI’s January endorsement of Doug Burgum, President Trump’s Secretary of the Interior. REI initially supported Burgum, highlighting ...

Posted on REI’s social media accounts, Mary Beth Laughton, the new president and CEO of REI Co-op, noted the endorsement of Burgum was an effort to “have a seat at the table” to continue ...

Mary Beth Laughton, new president and CEO of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), said that her company now regrets signing a letter in support of Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota.

Laughton joined REI after the letter went out to the ENR committee. “Many of you shared your disappointment and your frustration with that decision, and I hear you. Let me be clear. Signing that ...

The company retracted its endorsement this week, its President and CEO Mary Beth Laughton said on social media, citing the Trump administration’s initial policies on public lands. “Many of you ...

“Let me be clear, signing that letter was a mistake,” said REI CEO Mary Beth Laughton in a video posted on Instagram Wednesday. “The actions that the administration has taken on public lands ...