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Outdoor Pursuits Equipment News

The Big news today is that Kayaking history is about to be made. Mike Berwick and Patric Winterton are about to land on the Isle of Suderoy one of the faroes islands. The have paddled from lewis North scotland in kayaks with no support crew. They set out on monday morning and landed on the isle of North Rona and left there the following day (tuesday) today is friday and they have been paddling almost none stop for 4days and three nights. They did catch a little sleep on the first two nights but paddled right through last night so they have been paddling for 30 hours and, at this moment, (friday 1.00pm) they are 5.2Nautical miles from the coast.
Mike is a close friend and was the man who brought me a share in the canadian co-op and so started this co-op.
For more information go to;
www.paddlefaroes.com
www.simon-willis.blogspot.com

BBC are slowly picking this up. I hope you see it on the news.

Come home safely mike.

Phil.

On the business front, most of the suppliers are going a fine job and supplying us in a just in time way. That's the way you like it and so we do too. Paramo is making a bit of hotch potch of it by making us sign agreements that are just not practical and maybe even illegal. They are asking us to supply them with customer details - and that we cannot and would not ever do. It's against data protection act but the agreement demands it. Many of us retailers beleave they are to be the next to close down retail distribution and regress to their own web site. Rohan were the last to do this and we know their will be many more.

Your Co-op is still looking for a bigger property and beginning to look further afield.
Our stock has outgrown our shop and it's time to expand. We will consider anything from small wearhouse to large shop so long as it's in the area of Staffordshire. We are looking for farmers that have buildings near main roads and maybe some grass to pitch tents on. If you know anyone with a farm next to a main road, ask if they would like the outdoor co-op to pay some rent. Old industrial buldings are of interest to us as they have the potential to give large open space with character.

www.sealskinz.net is opperating and postage is FREE. The images are improving and we are looking for a supervisor for this site. The task involves keeping an eye out for new products, talking with sealskinz and checking that prices are correct and competitive, improving the discriptions and generally making sure that this site is the best sealskinz site on the net. Its not a big job. If you think you would be good at this overseeing and development task please talk to us. This job is very simple, in computing terms, you dont have to be computer nerd. Call me on 01785 818500 if you would like to know more and get involved with the outdoor co-op.

The Sealskinz site is our first one brand site. Once the refining process is complete we will decide which brand to talk to next. There are so many worthy contenders it's hard to chose but I think Terra nova could be next. Your thoughts please. The sealskinz site forms a small part of our major new site which is being built behind the scenes. Come the glorious day of the revolution all our one brand sites will be copied to our central site which will be released when it hits critical mass. Are we missing anything? is their anything that we should add to give you confidence to use our site?.

Local news for Stone, Staffs. The "Stone services directory" progresses with ever more political support and the structure and distribution is being sorted as I write this. I hope it will be in production this year. Every service or business will be included and no advertising will be allowed.

More local news. The Stone music festival is on july 10,11,12th and abba gold are the headline band on the sunday evening. For more info goto www.stonemusicfestival.com

Phil Barber. 01785 818500
phil@outdoorco-op.co.uk
Rohan Rohan clearance sale now on.

Paramo Clothing now in stock- 01785 818500

Every paramo garment is accessable here.
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