The Basics

Company Name: GSI Outdoors
Location: Spokane Valley, WA
Founded: 1985
Full-Time Employees: 36 (and don’t foget our essential 8 part time employees)
Products: Camping Cookware and Accessories, outdoor games
Social: Instagram // Facebook // Website
Claim to Fame: most compact cook and tableware sets, thinnest full size two burner stove, lightest stainless-steel vacuum bottles and the most outrageous hand powered blender…

The Culture

The best thing about working at GSI Outdoors is:

it is a family culture that embraces each employee’s strength to help the company grow;

When we’re not working, we’re:

adventuring with our friends and families.  It’s all about the outdoors, it is where we find ourselves, to play, to recharge, to laugh, and to bond together in the awesomeness of what nature offers us is what life is all about;

What we’re reading:

Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Outdoor Gear Lab, our topo maps and compasses;

What we’re listening to:

we embrace it all from blues to hard rock and when in the outdoors the awesome quietness of nature punctuated by the wind rustling leaves, a splashing brook, an eagle’s cry, a crackling campfire, and a half out of tune camp guitar plunking out a familiar tune…

If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:

Eat, Work, Camp or Great Scott;

Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to spend time in the outdoors… camping, hiking, boating, and all the other pursuits that put smiles on our faces and warmth in our hearts.  More humans becoming conscientious stewards of the outdoors, preserving and advocating for its protection.  Buying into the fact that we have one earth and we need to take care of it!

Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:

we have continued to sustain and grow our family business, improving our ecological footprint, supporting social inclusion and leveraging our brand prominence to activate reflection and change.

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