JanSport is experimenting with a high-tech backpack to give teens another way to express themselves. The company has developed 300 backpacks with programmable fabric, allowing users to share a ...

Jansport backpacks have long been the envy of the schoolyard, but its backpacks are versatile enough for use at the office. Skip to content. FOX31 Denver.

While Nike is a crowd favorite among athletes for their athletic apparel, shoes and accessories, JanSport is the largest maker of backpacks in the world. Skip to content. FOX31 Denver.

On Tuesday, a smitten JanSport returned the love in a big way by awarding her – and her backpack – a free trip "anywhere in the world." Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A ...

DENVER, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- JanSport today introduced Surplus Ski n' Hike, the brand's first backpack collection made with excess factory materials that may have otherwise ended up in ...

DENVER, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- JanSport, the iconic backpack brand known for being Always With You, is teaming up with L2 Brands, a leader in collegiate and destination apparel, to ignite ...

Day packs accounted for half of JanSport’s sales in 1985, and by 2015 the company was reportedly selling 8 million backpacks a year. The oldest of three brothers, Murray John Pletz was born in ...

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 ...

Murray McCory revolutionized school life with a lightweight backpack that he created through JanSport, the outdoors equipment company he founded in 1967. By the mid-1980s, JanSport bags were ...

For a while, Pletz; his wife, Jan (after whom the backpack was named); and Mr. Yowell operated out of a dusty workshop, rented from Pletz’s father, at the corner of 175th and Aurora.