Men's Salomon Fashion Brand

In a society where speed and stress have taken over, people take less and less time to play and connect with nature - and play, the Salomon profile states, is the essence of Salomon. They create the next generation of gear and experiences that make people live the joy of progression of their preferred sport. That philosophy paragraph is the framing for everything that follows on this page: a mountain brand filed in this directory for its men's skiwear, jackets, boots, hats and gloves, and understood by its own account as equipment for playing outdoors rather than merely dressing for the cold.

The Salomon family workshop opened in 1947. Originally wood saws and ski edges. They then turned their attention to ski bindings. The history is told in workshop steps, and each step moves the family business closer to the skier: a saw works on wood, a ski edge is part of the ski itself, and a binding is the mechanism that joins boot to ski. A maker that began with tools for building skis ended the sequence making the connection between the skier and the ski - the workshop's whole first era in three sentences.

From Bindings to Boots, Shoes and Apparel

In 1979 the Salomon alpine ski boots hit the market. In 1992 Salomon ventured into summer sports with the launch of hiking shoes. In 2001 the Raid Race was the first XA shoe on the market - they also launched winter apparel the same year. Read as a men's clothing timeline, 2001 is the hinge: the year the footwear line produced its first XA shoe is also the year Salomon clothing begins, which is why this directory files Salomon among the clothing brands and not only among ski equipment makers. The men's range listed for the brand - skiwear, jackets, boots, hats, gloves - spans both sides of that hinge.

In 2005, AMER Sports acquired Salomon. In 2015, Salomon launches Backcountry, a range of mountaineering gear. The two closing entries of the chronology describe the modern company: an acquisition that placed the family workshop's brand inside a larger sports group, and, a decade later, a named range aimed at mountaineering - the far end of the progression idea in the profile's opening, gear for skiers and climbers moving beyond the resort into the backcountry. The official Salomon site is linked in References below.

Reading This Salomon Record

Salomon, first entry under S in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: a family workshop opened in 1947, originally making wood saws and ski edges, then ski bindings; alpine ski boots in 1979; a venture into summer sports with hiking shoes in 1992; the first XA shoe, the Raid Race, and the launch of winter apparel in 2001; acquired by AMER Sports in 2005; and the Backcountry mountaineering range in 2015 - all of it under a stated philosophy that play is the essence of the brand. The rest of this page is the directory's standard research set, including a route to the skiwear brands coverage.

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