Orvis

Orvis is America's oldest mail order company and a sporting tradition since 1856. Orvis's website has an wide array of products including Men's Apparel, Women's Clothing, Gokey Footwear, Home Furnishings, Men's Watches, Dog Beds, Women's Apparel, Fly Fishing Gear, Men's Clothing, Fly Rods, Slippers, Briefcases, Pet beds, Fly Reels, Sweaters, Coats, Leather Jackets, Barbour, Watches, Bed Spreads, Men's Shoes, Skirts, Lamps, Travel Clothing, Men's Shirts, and Quilts.

Orvis is a family-owned retail and mail-order business specializing in high-end fishing, hunting and sporting goods. Founded in Manchester, Vermont in 1856 by Charles F. Orvis to sell fishing tackle, the company has changed hands only twice and has had only five CEOs in its 150-year history.  Orvis is the oldest mail-order retailer in the United States.

Orvis's long record of conservation activism began with Charles Orvis's work in fisheries conservation and management in the late 1800s and has continued since. In 1994, Leigh Perkins, Orvis CEO from 1965 to 1992, received the Chevron Conservation Award for lifetime achievements in conservation, perhaps the most prestigious such award given in the United States.  Since then, under CEO Perk Perkins, Orvis has increased both the magnitude and breadth of its conservation program, and annually donates five percent of pre-tax profits to a great variety of conservation projects.

Working in cooperation with leading professional conservation groups including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, and many others, Orvis has successfully completed dozens of projects, regularly launching matching-grant campaigns in its catalogs and in the pages of the Orvis News. Recent programs include re-establishment of a migratory whooping crane flock; preservation of public access to the famous Henry's Fork trout fishery: restoration of a native golden trout population in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains; protection of long-billed curlew habitat in Montana; protection of songbird migratory corridor in Jamaica; and the restoration of trout habitat in on the Orvis home river, the Battenkill.

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