On a positive note, perhaps the brand will become more widely available. I've found a lot of climbing clothing brands (as opposed to general mountaineering brands), such as E9, hard to come by.
Yes. Absolutely. Both Mountain Hardware and Montrail went through their wilderness years after being acquired. Mountain Hardware lost their Gore licence (a good thing some might say) and everything went a bit 'meh'. Innovation and development pretty much stopped and has only recently returned. Things look on the up for Mountain Hardware at least, but it has taken a good while to recover the ground lost!
Thanks; the question was genuine, and not rhetorical. You do sometimes boggle at the incompetence of corporate types; spend a lot of money on a company, and then bugger up what you've bought.
