not meet wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources holden outerwear news newspapers books scholar jstor free images april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message holden llc type private industry fashion and snowboarding founded 2002 headquarters portland oregon products outerwear and streetwear website http www.holdenouterwear.com holden outerwear is a manufacturer of jackets and pants for use in skiing and snowboarding . based in portland or holden is owned by professional snowboarder mikey leblanc and designer scott zergebel . contents 1 history 2 collection 3 team riders 4 video 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit holden was launched in 2002 by leblanc and zergebel under the wings of earth products a subsidiary of k2 sports and the larger jarden corporation . in 2007 holden severed ties with earth products and became an independent company . 1 at this time leblanc and zergebel moved the corporate office from southern california to portland oregon and doubled the size of the company from 3 to 8 employees . in 2007 holden was distributed in 150 stores in north america and 15 countries worldwide . 2 holden has also become widely known for its annual sales website and receives accolades for its use of video and interactive design . in 2010 holden with the help of wilderness design won the excellence award for the portland or based rosie awards . 3 collection edit holden uses eco friendly fabrics in technical jackets . in 2006 holden won an award from the worth global style network for its development of a fabric made of hemp and recycled plastic bottles that is both waterproof and breathable . 4 holden also partners with schoeller technologies to use their patented eco friendly c change fabrics . the fabric won the 2006 frost & sullivan award for product innovation of the year . 5 team riders edit holden supports a number of team riders . nate cole gus engle marie hucal mikey leblanc matty ryan darrell mathes laurent nicolas paquin scotty wittlake andy wright cale zima video edit in 2009 leblanc and holden team rider darrell mathes along with others founded the video production company videograss . 6 the debut film also titled videograss features the riding of the holden team . the second video titled bon voyage 7 was released in fall of 2010 . holden co owner and professional snowboarder mikey leblanc won the prestigious stand out of the year award from transworld snowboarding for his part in bon voyage . prior to videograss leblanc owned the now defunct kidsknow productions . 8 the two films released under kidsknow burning bridges and love hate were inherently tied to the holden team . love hate featured female rider priscilla levac who won best female snowboarder of the year in 2005 . 9 see also edit list of companies based in oregon references edit http portland.bizjournals.com portland stories 2008 03 03 story2.html http blog.oregonlive.com playbooksandprofits 2008 02 holden outerwear moving all op.html http www.roseys2010.com h1011 consumer website http www.portlandtribune.com features story 2nd.php story id 121097455300434100 http www.prnewswire.co.uk cgi news release id 186515 http espn.go.com action snowboarding blog post 4830440 http snowboarding.transworld.net 1000127434 featuresobf videograss bon voyage teaser http www.snowboardcanada.com blogs post 44 one hand clapping videograss reviewed http expn.go.com expn athletes bio id 3842 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title holden outerwear & oldid 728353069 categories companies based in portland oregonprivately held companies based in oregonclothing companies established in 2002outdoor clothing brandsclothing companies of the united states2002 establishments in oregonhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from april 2010all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 july 2016 at 20 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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