"JanSport is an American brand of backpacks, now owned by VF Company, one of the world's biggest apparel firms. The business was founded in 1967 in Seattle, Washington by Murray Pletz, his wife Janice "" Jan"" Lewis (for whom the company is named), and also his relative Miss Yowell. JanSport introduced with a panel-loading daypack, unlike conventional top-loading packs. In 1975 it presented the very first exchangeable traveling pack in addition to its signature daypack. [3] In 1986, VF acquired JanSport's after that moms and dad, Blue Bell.

The company's corporate headquarters is now based in Alameda, California, at VF Outdoor head office where it shares workplaces with divisional brother or sisters Napapijri and The North Face. Its distribution center in Everett, Washington because 1971, closed March 2012. JanSport additionally has awarehouse in Appleton, Wisconsin which houses its college apparel division. [4] JanSport is the world's largest knapsack manufacturer, and together, JanSport and also The North Face market nearly half of all little knapsacks offered in the USA.

JanSport began by establishing the outside framework backpack, which utilized a steel frame with a towel packsack affixed to it; the items made consist of technical day packs and also inner structure knapsacks. Up until the very early 1990s, all JanSport packs were made in the United States."