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...Both the soldier fly project and the land-based salmon farm are backed by Patagonia founder and billionaire environmentalist Yvon Chouinard....
...Yvon Chouinard said in an open letter that the money the company makes after reinvesting in the business will be used to “help fight” climate change....
...US rock climber, environmentalist, philanthropist and businessman Yvon Chouinard, 83, who has a net worth of $1.2bn, said he was transferring his family’s ownership to a trust and a non-profit organisation...
...Patagonia gave it all away In September, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard and his family transferred full ownership of the company, estimated at $3bn, to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and non-profit organisation...
...Chouinard last year....
...(Kenza Bryan) Patagonia spotlights its new shareholder: Earth Yvon Chouinard, already one of the most provocative thinkers about capitalism’s social purpose, has raised the stakes....
...In an open letter, Yvon Chouinard wrote: “Earth is now our only shareholder.” Voting stock will remain under family ownership to ensure the company “maintains our values”, according to Chouinard....
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...But today French Gates is discussing how to change the way we give – and in a year of hugely diverse philanthropic strategies, from Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s announcement that all the company’s...
...Among the team who set out from San Francisco were Yvon Chouinard, who would go on to found a clothing company named after the region he fell in love with — Patagonia — and Doug Tompkins, who founded both...
...In fact, Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, came here to learn from local fly-fisherman Mauro Mazzo....
...The brands I most admire include Patagonia – founder Yvon Chouinard has created a profitable platform that also gives back....
...GE offers a less useful comparison with Twitter than, say, Patagonia, the Californian outerwear manufacturer founded by Yvon Chouinard, who regularly disappears to remote mountain ranges to indulge his love...
...I’ve also admired from afar Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, for his contrarian “MBA” policy — “management by absence” — exercised while he is surfing or mountaineering, having left the outerwear manufacturer...
...At one end of the spectrum there is Patagonia, the outdoor gear company founded by rock-climbing environmentalist Yvon Chouinard....
...She’d first met Yvon Chouinard, the mountaineer who went on to found Patagonia, when she was 15. He’d rented the beach house next door to her family’s; she’d “tried to teach him to skimboard”....
...To paraphrase a remark by Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard in his book The Responsible Company: companies that do harm on an industrial scale can also effect change by making industrial-scale improvements...
...Yvon Chouinard’s outdoor clothing company Patagonia has doubled in size and tripled in profits in recent years, while following his mantra to “let my people go surfing”....
...Just down from the Nike store I stopped outside Patagonia, the California-based outdoor clothing specialists founded by the environmentalist Yvon Chouinard....
...Speaking to CNN, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard pulled no punches: “I’m going to sue him,” he said....
...Anonymous Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor product company Patagonia. He has never compromised on his company’s values....
...Yvon Chouinard, the group’s founder, has for years been a Pied Piper for a different way of working....
...Its founder, Yvon Chouinard, wrote a memoir entitled Let My People Go Surfing — and surf they do, with some perfect beach and waves right in front of their offices in Ventura....
...Yvon Chouinard (1938-) An avid climber, Chouinard is co-founder of the privately owned Patagonia outdoor clothing business....
...… The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First 40 Years, by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley, Patagonia Inc, RRP$19.95/£12.45 Patagonia, the California-based outerwear company...
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