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Our Mission

Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

Our Reason for Being

Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None require a motor; none deliver the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature.

Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility. For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide. We know that our business activity – from lighting stores to dyeing shirts – creates pollution as a by-product. So we work steadily to reduce those harms. We use recycled polyester in many of our clothes and only organic, rather than pesticide-intensive, cotton. Staying true to our core values during thirty-plus years in business has helped us create a company we're proud to run and work for. And our focus on making the best products possible has brought us success in the marketplace.

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Patagonia Super Free Alpine Jacket

Making use of Gore's new PFC-free technology, this is an interesting lightweight mountain shell, says Dan Bailey - and one that treads that bit lighter on the planet, too. But is he entirely sold on the cut..?


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Latest Reviews

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Patagonia Triolet Jacket - PFC-Free, and Built to Take Abuse

Featuring Gore's new PFC-free ePE membrane, the Triolet is a superb and very burly shell, says Rob Greenwood, capable of year-round use in a wide variety of disciplines, and built to take plenty of abuse.

If it Ain't Broke - Gear that Goes On and On

In these days of growing environmental concern and shrinking budgets, we can't all be constantly buying brand gear. There's a lot to be said for making do with the stuff we already own. To celebrate our loyalty to much-loved and trusty bits of...

Patagonia Ascensionist Jacket

It's not built for serious Scottish winter abuse, but for sweaty mountain activities, from ski touring and mountaineering to hillwalking, the lightweight Ascensionist shell would be a big hit, reckons John McKenna.

Patagonia Micro Puff Hoody

Patagonia have something of a reputation when it comes to creating cult classics, and the Nano Puff is one of them. So how does its...

Down Jackets

In this group review we test out a range of down jackets. Our review brief was to test 'standard mid-weight down jackets that are suitable for...

Patagonia's Women's Nano-Air Hoody

There's been a big buzz around Patagonia's Nano-Air Hoody with rave reviews and a '2015 Outside Gear of the Year'...

Patagonia Adze Jacket

The Adze jacket is Patagonia's "all mountain" softshell jacket – available with a hood ("Adze Hoody"), and without ("Adze...


Latest News

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Patagonia - Shell, Yeah!

Patagonia is the first in the industry to make all shells with recycled materials and sew them all in a Fair Trade Certified factories. That's what is being celebrated with their Shell, Yeah! campaign. The focus is on the achievement - causing les...

Introducing The Patagonia Micro Puff™ Collection

The Micro Puff™ Collection was created for days when you need one piece of insulation to do it all—for startstop activities in cold climates, when space in your pack is crucial and temperature changes inevitable.

Outside Crag Clean Up 2018

It's that time of year again! Let's all go out and give our crags, hills and woods a spring clean (yeah alright, we know it's autumn already)!

The Micro Puff Hoody: Patagonia's lightest, most packable insulated jacket ever.

Down gets wet and loses its heat-trapping loft whilst synthetics never...

Patagonia High Alpine Press Event

From 5-6th April staff, ambassadors, and journalists from around the world gathered in Chamonix to test out products from...

The Patagonia Worn Wear Tour Comes to Europe: Bet

Extending the life of our garments is the single most important thing we can do to lower our impact on...

Patagonia Invests in the Business of Science

Through our $20 Million & Change venture fund, we're investing in a ground breaking company working to create better...


Articles

Articles featuring this brand

Article Thou Shalt Not Wreck the Place: Climbing, Ecology and Renewal

Mick Ward explores the ethos of 'clean climbing' and how it has shaped the equipment we use and the ascents we make.   In the 1960s, Yosemite became a climbing paradise. But what do you do when paradise is threatened with...

Opinion Future Landscapes Wales - a Conservation Concern

In March this year, conservationists criticised a draft report on the future of Welsh National Parks, written by Future Landcapes Wales, a working group set up by Welsh Government in 2015. Environmentalists are concerned that the report...

Desert Island Climbs #2: Pete Whittaker & Tom Randall

In this new series of interviews, we whisk off some of Britain's best climbers to a lonely desert island (we might give them a belayer to take along, if they're lucky...) and ask them to regale us with tales of their eight favourite routes of...

Interview Stéphanie Bodet: A Climbing Philosophy

Stéphanie Bodet recently featured in the video "Of the Rock I asked for the Moon", balancing her way up a delicate slab and eloquently describing the evolution of her climbing ambitions through the narration of a text which she had written....


Latest Job Ads

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Customer Services Representative TEMP, Patagonia

Founded in 1973, Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company based in Ventura, California. They are looking to recruit a new member of staff at their Manchester HQ.


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