alpkit.com

Description: Satisfy your needs for alpine activities such as climbing, camping, mountaineering and trekking at alpkit.com.

Newest Review: ... scheme. This scheme allows users to purchase a prototype product on a first come first serve basis at a knockdown price in return for feedback on how the product performs. Despite their modern, stylish and very functional website Alpkit is effectively a cottage industry with limited investment. As a result products are made in short runs and due to being very popular often sell out very ... more

... quickly. Some products are very seasonal so no down jackets in the summer and probably well into the autumn, and the general range of products is not very wide. Consequently I (and many others) are longing for them to get some decent investment so th...more

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alpkit.com: Good Old Fashioned (Alpine) Cottage Industry (380 words)
by - written on 14/08/09 (Very useful, 20 readings)
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Alpkit.com is a UK (Derby) based outdoor equipment manufacturer selling high quality niche products, cheap and exclusively online. Products tend to lean towards climbing and camping and includes bouldering mats, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, titanium camping cutlery, dry bags and stuff sacks, walking poles, down jackets, head torches and t-shirts. Alpkit also produce a handful of innovative and groundbreaking products most notably water proof "jeanius" jeans which were a product of the colab scheme. This scheme allows users to purchase a prototype product on a first come first serve basis at a knockdown price in return for feedback on how the ... Read the complete review

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