@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Vermont Business Magazine Jan 01, 2005 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for Academy of Marketing Science Review Accounting Historians Journal, The Accounting History AgExporter ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Profiles in Business: Leigh H 'Perk' Perkins, Jr and The Orvis Company Vermont Business Magazine Jan 01, 2005 by Marcel, Joyce Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The first thing that greets you when you enter the Orvis Company's 23,000-squarefoot lodge-like flagship store in Manchester Center is a huge, liquid-eyed, horned, fake bison's head mounted on the wall. Between that, all the fieldstone and hunter's green, the buttery men's leather jackets, the $9,000 hunting rifles, the reels and fly rods, the elegant canoes, the bronzed animal statuettes, the actual trout pond in the rear of the store - stocked with actual trout the large variety of hunting and fishing photos on the wall, plus the motto, "We provide our customers with products, knowledge, experience and services that define and support the distinctive country lifestyle," you might expect Orvis's owner and CEO, Leigh H. Perkins, Jr, to be an eight-foot tall Hemingway clone who rides into interviews on a moose. | |
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