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It’s one of the oldest guitar makers still in existence, but the journey from Orville Gibson’s hobby to a world-straddling brand has been a rollercoaster to say the least. In addition to being one of the world’s ‘big two’ electric guitar brands – along with Fender, whose fame and recognition have transcended the guitar sphere and become household names – Gibson is also one of the oldest American musical instrument manufacturers, with a history dating all the way back to 1894. In the century or so since, the brand has changed dramatically, evolving with the times and adapting to changes in music, establishing a global reputation for innovation and quality. It’s not all been smooth sailing, and there’s certainly been some times when the brand has found itself in hot water, but it endures today as an icon of American culture. As renowned as Gibson has become, it’s hard to imagine that it all started as Orville Gibson’s part-time hobby! He worked a variety of part-time jobs in order to fund his true passion – handcrafting musical instruments. Orville began building acoustic guitars and mandolins in his Kalamazoo, Michigan shop in 1894. He pioneered a guitar design that featured a carved, hollow top with an oval sound hole that would become the standard for the archtop guitar. It didn’t take long for demand of his handcrafted creations to take off and so in 1902 he secured the financing to form the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company. Sadly, he would pass away in 1918 without being able to see much of the success his namesake company would come to have.

1938 Gibson EH-150. Image: Nigel Osbourne / Redferns

Guitar innovation was really starting to take off in the 1920s, and Gibson led the charge. Employee Tedd McHugh created two of their greatest engineering achievements – the adjustable truss rod and height-adjustable bridge. Even today, all Gibsons are equipped with the same truss rod McHugh designed. 1935 saw the company release their first attempt at one of the newfangled electric guitars that people were talking about – the EH-150. This was far from the electrics we know today of course, as like many early electrified instruments, it was a lap steel guitar with a Hawaiian flair. The first “electric Spanish” model, the ES-150, followed the next year, and that was a lot more like it, but despite electric guitars being the next big thing, Gibson continued to focus on quality acoustic instruments. One of the most enduring of these came about due to a custom order for a large acoustic guitar from popular western actor Ray Whitley, the Super Jumbo J-200 “King of the Flat Tops” was born in 1937. Still popular today under the model J-200/JS-200, it is still one of the premier choices for big-bodied acoustic guitars. Gibson was a trailblazer in acoustic guitar design, developing such storied models as the J-45 and the Southern Jumbo, which remain iconic body shapes to this day. If that wasn’t enough, the company would change the fortunes of dusty end players forever when the cutaway was developed in 1939. With the innovation allowing never-before-seen upper-fret access for the jazz and blues cats of the day, the concept soon caught on, and through its empowerment of players, would change guitar playing forever. As World War II neared its end, Gibson was purchased by the Chicago Musical Instrument Company in 1944, with the expectation that demand for guitars would hit an all-time high – they were not wrong, and the following decades would be boom years for Gibson, wherein the brand’s most iconic instruments would be created. In 1950, a man named Ted McCarty took over the presidency of Gibson, and under his stewardship Gibson became a dynamo of innovation, developing the P-90 pickup, the ES-175, the first triple pickup electric guitar, the ES-5. But all this innovation would be merely a springboard to what came next

1958 Les Paul Standard 

In 1952 Gibson partnered with the most renowned recording artist of the time, a jazz guitarist and recording pioneer named Les Paul to release a signature guitar. In truth, the pair had history – a wildly innovative polymath, the man otherwise known as Lester Polsfuss had come to McCarty in the 40s with an idea for a solidbody guitar he called ‘The Log’. McCarty rejected The Log, which was something of a Heath Robinson construction in fairness, but by the early 1950s Gibson had a problem – Leo Fender. The former radio repairman had begun mass-producing the Esquire in 1948, and it was soon joined by the Broadcaster – clearly this solidbody thing was more than just a joke, and Gibson needed to compete. So, in 1951 McCarty and Paul finally teamed up to begin work on their own solidbody, a single-cut design that would bear the guitarist’s name on the headstock – the Gibson Les Paul. In truth, it wasn’t a smash hit design out of the gate, but the fundamentals of what would become one of the two most iconic electric guitars ever made were there – single-cut mahogany body, arched maple top painted in eye-catching gold, twin pickups (P-90s initially) with four controls and a three way toggle, set mahogany neck with a rosewood bridge, and a three-a-side headstock that bore Les’s signature. There were issues – the trapeze bridge and tailpiece, when combined with the guitar’s shallow neck pitch, made it a playability nightmare, and it would be two full years before the more plush, high-end Custom version arrived with its gold hardware and black finish.
But Gibson soon set to work fixing the issues – in 1954 McCarty invented the tune-o-matic bridge, which remains standard issue on most Gibson guitars today thanks to its rock solid stability, great tone and ability to individually adjust the saddles for intonation. The issue of noise on the otherwise well-liked P-90 was also solved in 1957 with Seth Lovers invention of the humbucker. The humbucker remains one of the defining inventions in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, stacking two single coil pickups together with reversed polarities removed the dreaded ’60-cycle hum’, and opened the door for so much more. 1957 also saw Gibson acquire the Epiphone brand – the New York company had been a huge rival of Gibson in the 1930s, but fell on hard times and was bought over to Kalamazoo to serve as Gibson’s budget line. That wouldn’t be the end of Epi’s story however – the brand produced some iconic instruments of its own in the 1960s, including the Casino, Sheraton, Coronet, Texan and Frontier.

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It’s hard to firmly state when Gibson guitars entered their golden age, but there’s perhaps no more hallowed period in the history of any guitar company than the instrument made in Kalamazoo between 1958 and 1960. For starters, 1958 saw the arrival of the world’s first commercial semi-hollow guitar – the ES-335. If there’s a guitar that’s almost as important to popular music as the Les Paul in Gibson’s canon, it’s this wonderfully versatile, expressive and reliable instrument – blending the warmth and organic sound of a jazzbox with the feedback-reducing properties of a solidbody, it remains an icon to this day. 1958 also saw the arrival of perhaps the single most revered electric guitar ever, the original Les Paul Standard. Priced between the Goldtop and the Custom, the Standard utilized all the learning Gibson had made in the previous six years, sporting a pair of Seth Lovers new humbuckers (Patent Applied For), the tune-o-matic bridge, and a new and eye-catching Sunburst finish. In total, around 1,700 Bursts, as they’d come to be known, were built between 1958 and 1960 – and are today regarded by many as the finest electric guitars ever made. The guitar playing public at the time were less impressed, however, and poor sales led to the Les Paul design being retired in 1960. In truth, kids in the late 50s wanted guitars that looked a little more futuristic than Gibson’s archtop-derived instruments, and you can’t say Ted McCarty wasn’t prepared to give them what they wanted – in 1958 he designed the Flying V, Explorer and Moderne, all of which had radical, futuristic designs… and the public promptly hated them too. The Moderne would never even make it into full production in the 50s, while the V and Explorer shipped a few hundred units before being retired. Like the Les Paul Burst, the V and Explorer would have to wait to be fully appreciated.

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By 1960 Les Paul sales were flagging, and so Gibson decided the design needed a radical overhaul – gone was the single-cut arched top design of yore and in came a thin, contoured solidbody design with two pointed horns to enable even better upper fret access. It was far from what Les and Gibson had designed a decade hence, but there was one problem – they didn’t tell him they were doing it. Sales of this radical Les Paul design were strong when it was launched in 1961, but the man whose name was on the headstock absolutely hated the design. He asked for his name to be taken off the guitar, despite the $1 per guitar royalty it earned him, and by 1963 the Les Paul had become the SG. The next few years would see Gibson and Epiphone go from strength to strength, with 100,000 guitars were shipped in 1965! It wasn’t all roses however, the Firebird, launched in 1963, struggled to catch on in either its reverse or non-reverse forms, and in 1966 McCarty left Gibson after overseeing unprecedented growth and success.

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The post-McCarty era would prove difficult for Gibson. In 1969 the brand’s parent company, Chicago Musical Instruments, was sold to a South American brewing conglomerate, and then in 1974 Gibson was broken off and became part of Norlin Industries. The Norlin era would become synonomous with corporate mismanagement, and a decline in quality of Gibson’s instruments (a fact that, ironically, would drive many of the 70s guitar icons to reappraise several Gibson flops from the 50s and 60s, including the Les Paul, Firebird, Flying V and Explorer. In 1974, Gibson opened a second facility in Nashville in 1974 and for years split production between Tennessee and Michigan, whiel gradually moving its focal point to the music city.
In 1983, Gibson would leave Kalamazoo behind for good, leaving behind a few of the luthiers who didn’t want to move, and an empty factory – these luthiers would go on to found Heritage guitars in that same factory. By 1986, Gibson was effectively bankrupt – struggling to keep pace with the demands of 80s shred guitarists. That same year, the company was purchased for $5 million by David Berryman and new CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. The mission was simple – restore Gibson’s name and reputation to what it once was. Quality control picked up significantly. A focus was put on acquiring other companies, and in-depth analysis of which models were the most popular and why in an effort to replicate it. This strategy would lead to a gradual resurgence, helped in no small part by a chap by the name of Slash making Sunburst Les Paul’s the ultimate in guitar cool again in 1987.

Gibson Dusk Tiger. Image: Gibson

The Juskiewicz era of Gibson has become much-maligned in recent years, but things were not always bad, and the first few decades saw a significant uptick in quality and giving fans the guitars they really wanted. By the turn of the Millennium, however, things were starting to get a little strange. Gibson had always been a company that placed innovation and forward thinking at its heart, but gradually the company began to move in a direction that alienated it from its audience.
Gibson began buying up smaller companies such as Baldwin, Steinberger, Kramer and many others in the 90s, but by the early 2000s it became clear that Gibson wanted to give the guitar world the future, if it was ready for it or not. In 2005 the Robot Les Paul featured polarising but hugely innovative robotic tuners that could tune a guitar at the press of a button. From there Gibson continued to push ever on with its goal of melding modern technology with the electric guitar – leading to such calamitous launches as the Dusk Tiger and the Firebird-X. Perhaps the biggest disconnect between Gibson and its audience came in 2015, when the entire Gibson range was overhauled to include wider necks, an adjustable brass nut with zero fret and the G-Force robot tuners as standard. The reaction was almost universally negative – fans complained that Gibson was trying to force change onto them instead of just offering them the guitars they wanted. Gibson’s reputation took a hammering over the 2010s, and by 2018 the company was in dire financial straits. Chapter 11 banruptcy was filed in May that year.

A Gibson Custom Murphy Lab 1957 Les Paul Goldtop with Ultra-Heavy ageing. Image: Gibson

Gibson was rescused from oblivion by hedge fund KKR and quickly went about installing a new leadership team, removing Juskiewicz and bringing the company under the stewardship of ex-Levis man JC Curleigh. While the following years have not been smooth, with Gibson repeatedly being on the end of negative publicity regarding its aggressive attitudes towards its trademarks and other guitar makers, the reborn Gibson has got far more right than wrong. From overhauling the production range to better reflect the iconic designs of years past with the Original Collection, to creating a new and improved Custom Shop Lab headed up by Tom Murphy, to overhauling and improving Epiphone guitars so they’re more in line with their Gibson inspirations, the future of Gibson appears to be in very safe hands. For more features, click here. Guitar.com is the world’s leading authority and resource for all things guitar. We provide insight and opinion about gear, artists, technique and the guitar industry for all genres and skill levels. © 2021 Guitar.com is part of NME Networks. source https://4awesome.streamstorecloud.com/a-brief-history-of-gibson-guitar-com-all-things-guitar-guitar-com/?feed_id=36374&_unique_id=642f42a87788d

Leesburg, Florida is getting new restaurant: Ski Beach Bar & Grill - Daily Commercial

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Lawns: Are they worth it anymore? - The Washington Post

Sign in An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the largest crop in the continental U.S. is turf grass. It is the largest irrigated crop. The story has been corrected. Lawns, still, somehow. The planet has accelerated its revolt against us and still we tend our lawns, one part of Earth we can control. Society falters, resources dwindle and, still, lawns. Lawns: burned out, blond and dead, in the air fryer of August. Lawns: emerald green — no, alien green — and kept that way by maniacal vigilance and an elaborate system of pipes and potions, organic and otherwise, in defiance of ecology. And for what? To have, in this chaos, dominion over something? (Lawn and order?) To drape a veil of verdancy over a world gone to seed? To feel equal or superior to Ron, across the street, whose lawn always looks like the 18th at Pebble Beach? We’ve been sweeping our anxieties under these green comfort blankets for quite some time. A “smooth, closely shaven surface of grass is by far the most essential element of beauty on the grounds of a suburban home,” wrote Frank J. Scott in 1870, around the time of the first lawn mower patent, in a book titled “The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent” (Chapter XIII: The Lawn). “For ‘setting off’ both the house and the landscape, planting a good lawn is of vital importance,” declared a caption in the New York Times in 1937. Around that time, during the Great Depression, the Mattei family in Cincinnati did not have a lawn. They had a yard, and the yard was functional. It was for the chickens and tomato plants. It was not for grass. One of the Matteis, Vic, used the GI Bill to get to graduate school and become a research scientist. He made a family of his own in the Philadelphia suburb of Cinnaminson, N.J., in a subdivision that paved over Quaker farmland to accommodate Americans who were tinkering with the Aegis radar system for the nearby RCA Corp. Everyone in the subdivision had a lawn, of course. What was the American Dream, in the 20th century, if it wasn’t aproned by a quarter acre of Kentucky bluegrass or tall fescue, which is good for recreation and admiration and not much else? Vic had some token vegetable plants on the property, but the yard was not for survival. The yard was for lawn, and the lawn was for mowing. “He was mowing the lawn every Saturday,” says Vic’s daughter, Edamarie Mattei. “And that was success: Having the lawn. Mowing the lawn.” That was the 1970s. It is now a half-century later. Specifically Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Mattei, a landscape designer, is standing on a lawn in a leafy crook of Bethesda, Md. She is talking to the owner of the lawn about getting rid of it. “It contributes nothing,” says M.J. Veverka about her lawn, which she’s watered and weeded and mowed for 31 years — and for what? The lawn is static, nonfunctional, tedious. Last year Veverka filled in her backyard pool, removed the surrounding lawn and enlisted Mattei’s company to turn the space into an oasis of native plants, a “homegrown national park,” in the words of a grass-roots movement for regenerating biodiversity. Veverka so loves the backyard — which is now an evolving work of horticultural art and a functioning component of the surrounding ecosystem — that she wants to do the same thing with her front yard. Step one: Get thee gone, lawn. Mattei used to spend more time educating clients about the benefits of turf removal and native plantings; in the past two years, for whatever reason, new clients have started coming to her with those very ideas. Maybe quarantine amplified the sameness of lawns. Maybe, in this climate-conscious era, we are thinking outside the strict geometry of the lawn, which Mattei describes as “ecologically dead” — a “monoculture” in a world that needs biodiversity. Over a century, from around the 1870s to the 1970s, Americans slowly fell in love with lawns. Lawns were a sign of taste, calm, power, privilege, order, discipline, especially in the aftermath of World War II. “On the American front lawn men use power machinery and chemicals, the tools of war, to engage in a battle for supremacy with Mother Nature,” writes Virginia Scott Jenkins in her book “The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession.” Over the past 50 years, we’ve slowly fallen out of love with lawns. They began to signal waste, disregard, disharmony, homogeneity, gentrification, zombie Boomerism. “Wasn’t there something a bit decadent about millions of Americans applying millions of pounds of fertilizer and pouring millions of gallons of water on the ground to grow something you couldn’t eat unless you were a Jersey cow?” columnist Ellen Goodman wrote in the Boston Globe all the way back in 1977. “Wasn’t there something bizarre about their spending millions of gallons to cut it off?” “I think we’re growing up as a country,” Mattei says. “For a lot of American history, it seemed like we had boundless access to land, and we kept extracting from it and building on it. I see a real change from looking at land as a demonstration of power or success to looking at land as a precious resource.” She adds: “When we are lawn people, we are one thing. When we are not lawn people, we are another thing.” We are still, largely, lawn people. The biggest irrigated crop, by area, in the United States? Not corn, or soybean, but lawn. Unproductive, ornamental lawn: around 40 million acres of it, or 2 percent of the land area of the Lower 48, according to multiple estimates cited by Garik Gutman, program manager for NASA’s Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program. Forty million acres: The entire state of Georgia couldn’t contain America’s total lawnage. And we pour 9 billion gallons of water on landscaping every day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Meanwhile the Southwest United States is enduring a megadrought; the past two decades constitute its driest period since the year 800. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought state of emergency in October. In a world thirsty for water, lawns are a sneaky siphon. These days we have “No Mow May,” where neighbors test each other’s tolerance for nonconformity. We have Twitter users sharing before-and-after photos of their “war on lawns,” which turn flat slabs of sickly green into colorful kingdoms of billowing flora. We have a channel on Reddit called NoLawns and TikTok hashtags such as #antilawn, which might direct you to a performance of a profane anti-lawn song by a 27-year-old Nashville musician named Mel Bryant. “At the time, all of my neighbors were obsessed with their lawns,” says Bryant, who wrote the song on Earth Day 2020. “Everyone was mowing constantly, every day. At any point in time you’d hear lawn mowers going. And it drove me fricking insane. I still have this one neighbor who, I swear, on the Fourth of July he was mowing at 7:30 p.m. What are you doing, dude? This can wait.” Bryant’s song racked up tens of thousands of views, spreading through TikTok’s #cottagecore hashtag, where younger people advertise their cozy, quaint, sustainable, back-to-nature ethos. “Everyone’s got the perfect lawn,” Bryant says of her street, in the Rosebank area of Nashville. “They seed their lawns. They have sprinklers and s---. I think it’s attached to a more old-school, boomer generation of the idea of what an American life is. And our lawn …” Well, Bryant has let it grow wild. “I do think it’s pretty generational. I’ve definitely noticed in the past few years that so many people around my age are getting into gardening, and taking their lawns and turning them into gardens.” Walt Whitman wrote of grass in 1855: “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful greenstuff woven.” Said Hank Hill, fictional Texas propane salesman, in 1997: “Look, some people hoist a flag to show they love our country. Well, my lawn is my flag.” But lawn has become a liability — or in some cases an asset, on the condition of its removal. California’s main water utility is paying customers between $2 and $5 for each square foot of living turf that they remove. Last year Nevada outlawed certain types of lawn; rather, the state legislature prohibited the use of water from the dribbling Colorado River to feed certain types of “nonfunctional turf,” which in southern Nevada slurps up to 12 billion gallons of water every year (more than 10 percent of the state’s usage of the river). The law created a committee to sort “functional” turf from “nonfunctional”; discussions were had about how to categorize “pet relief” areas and “wedding lawns at golf courses.” Before the law passed, Sun City Anthem, an active-adult community in Henderson, Nev., had already removed almost 40,000 square feet of grass, which nearly halved its water bill. Larry Fossan, facility manager and landscape supervisor, replaced the lawn with xeriscaping: native plants like lantana, cactuses, Mexican feathergrass. Last year on the property Fossan saw something he’d never seen before in Nevada: monarch butterflies, about 25 of them, migrating through. “There’s flowers, color, butterflies, hummingbirds,” Fossan says of lawnless living. “Different parts of the day you see different things. We have boulders so people can sit and be part of the landscape. When we had grass, people just walked into the building, but now they’ll stop and ‘ooh’ and ‘ah.’ Landscaping is meant to be interactive. It’s meant to be part of your life.” Lawns, of course, are part of your life. You throw a football on them, you picnic on them, you lean and loaf on them. Some years ago Dave Marciniak penned a polite defense of lawns on his landscape company’s blog: “Why the anti-lawn movement bugs me a little.” Turf serves a purpose, he wrote. It’s soft and durable for recreation. It provides visual relief for the eye, and contrast for landscaping. Marciniak welcomes changing landscaping tastes, but notes that they are changing slowly. “As much as Americans like to call themselves rugged individuals, there’s a lot of looking around to see what other people are doing,” says Marciniak, who lives in Culpeper, Va. “I explain to people advocating anti-lawn: Look, it’s not going to happen overnight. If you want to get people away from lawns, we have to show them it can be beautiful, it can be desirable.” And perhaps, most importantly: “It can make the neighbors jealous.” source https://4awesome.streamstorecloud.com/lawns-are-they-worth-it-anymore-the-washington-post/?feed_id=36358&_unique_id=642c9f978dd91

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Beachwood’s new Fitness Court offers opportunity to get a free, outdoor full-body workout - cleveland.com

Beachwood's new Fitness Court at City Park East, east of Richmond Road at Shaker Boulevard. This photo shows the stations, divided into "easy," "medium" and "hard" categories, used for completing the "seven-movements in seven-minutes" workout. BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- The recently opened Fitness Court, an outdoor gym that provides a variety of exercise stations for those seeking improved fitness, has become a well-used asset at City Park East. The Fitness Court, which officially opened June 29 a few hundred feet from the Barkwood dog park, was planned more than a year ago when the idea was brought to City Council by Councilman Eric Synenberg, who saw one overlooking San Francisco Bay, along the Marina Green trail network. Taking this idea, Beachwood combined its Fitness Park with an additional exercise area that includes six heavy-duty pieces of exercise equipment. Synenberg explained that the idea to add the exercise equipment at City Park East was that of now-retired Beachwood recreation supervisor Pete Conces. ”That (Fitness Court in San Francisco) is obviously beautiful,” Synenberg said. “When you’re working out, you actually get to look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Ours is picturesque by Beachwood standards, but maybe not by those standards. “From what I’ve seen, a lot of people are using it,” he said of Beachwood’s Fitness Court. “We have classes there, and there have been comments on Facebook about adding more classes. I saw yesterday a comment requesting a class for couples. “We can’t dictate how many people are going to use amenities, or not. All we can do is offer what we feel are good amenities.” The Fitness Court, free to use, is part of the National Fitness Campaign. A QR code on its wall allows anyone to download a workout. There are also videos and challenges at the website nationalfitnesscampaign.com. Measuring 2,500 square feet, the hard-surfaced Fitness Court offers a “seven-movement, seven-minute bodyweight fitness circuit.” The seven movements are each divided into “easy,” “medium” and “hard” versions of an exercise. The Beachwood Fitness Court area at City Park East also includes six exercise machines. The seven movements each strengthen a different part of the body. The movements involve a core workout and exercises that require squats, pushing, lunging, pulling, agility and bending. Adding some color, each Fitness Court -- there is also one in the city of Avon and about 100 around the country -- includes art. In Beachwood’s case, the Beachwood Arts Council and the city’s community service department selected the work “Five Seasons in Ohio,” by Cleveland artist Eileen Dorsey. Art by Cleveland's Eileen Dorsey greets visitors to the Beachwood Fitness Court. The Fitness Court was installed at a cost of $149,990 after the city received a $30,000 National Fitness Campaign grant. The city also spent $20,000 on concrete and $36,489 for the six exercise machines. The total cost to the city was $206,479. The Fitness Park was one phase of a project that will, by next year, include restrooms with utility connections, a pavilion and additional parking. City Park East is located on the east side of Richmond Road, at Shaker Boulevard. Synenberg, who serves as City Council vice president, said the Fitness Court and coming plans for City Park East are but one part of recreational upgrades expected to come in the next year or two. While nothing has been finalized, Synenberg said, “What has been discussed by council and the administration is pickleball courts; updating the playground next to the (Beachwood Family Aquatic Center); the restrooms and picnic tables at City Park (East) next to the dog park and the fitness equipment. And there’s other ideas people have, council members, community members and the administration, in terms of a skateboard park, and returning at least one of the basketball courts (that had been removed from the Aquatic Center recreation area to make way for community gardens). “There’s a host of ideas,” he said. “But the bottom line is we’re continuing to make Beachwood have the best recreation and community services offerings in the area.” See more Sun Press news here. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022). Cookie Settings © 2022 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us).
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More Utahns cut from iFIT jobs as Logan company reduces global staff by another 20% - Salt Lake Tribune

(Courtesy of iFIT) A photo of the main iFIT building in Logan, Utah.
More iFit employees in Utah lost their jobs Monday, as the Logan-based company announced its latest round of layoffs after an exercise boom swelled its workforce during the pandemic.
The company would not disclose its current number of employees; however, a spokesperson said Monday that previous layoffs had trimmed the number to around 1,600 before this week’s reduction.
It also would not disclose the exact number of employees cut; but the spokesperson said it was a cut of 20%. That would take the number of employees to about or below 1,300, a reduction of around 300 people.
The majority of the company’s jobs are in Utah, the spokesperson said, though she would not specify the number of Utahns who have lost their jobs.
In December of last year, iFIT had more than 2,500 global employees — “our pandemic high,” the spokesperson said, after the company had grown to meet the pandemic demand for exercise gear.
The company designs and sells equipment such as ellipticals, bikes and rowing machines, and sells a subscription service which enables users to do virtual workouts at real-world locations. Demand spiked while people were stuck at home during the pandemic, but it has slowed during recent difficult economic times, the spokesperson said.
The staff reduction will “support our millions of members across the iFIT and Sweat platforms, and position the company for long-term success,” the spokesperson said.
The company handled this round of layoffs “in a much better way than they had in the past,” said Derek Schouten, a former employee in iFIT’s Logan office who was laid off Monday. He had worked with the company for three years.
The layoff notice was direct, and those affected were given the chance to say goodbye to co-workers, he said. “They were very apologetic,” Schouten said, and added, “I get it, it’s a business decision that they needed to make.”
Employees will be given severance packages, the spokesperson said, which “will be individually calculated” with a week’s pay for every year the person has been with the company, up to 12.
“These decisions are always difficult,” a statement shared by the spokesperson said. “We are committed to treating impacted employees with respect, and we thank them for their contributions to the company.”
In October, when Kevin Duffy took over as iFIT’s new CEO, he said it was a “pivotal time” for the business and that he was looking forward to helping to lead it “into a new chapter of growth and innovation,” according to a company statement.
“Macro” factors that contributed to the latest layoff included inflation and interest rates, and additional expenses in the “materials, and logistics and transportation” phases of iFIT’s supply chain, the spokesperson said.
In the statement provided by the spokesperson, iFIT said it “has experienced significant growth globally over the last few years through its eight brands including NordicTrack, Proform, Freemotion and Sweat, with iFIT members in more than 120 countries.
“However, with the pandemic volatility in the fitness space, the challenging macroeconomic environment, and supply chain disruptions, iFIT has made the tough decision to right size the business to continue our path to profitability.”
In 2021, the company sold $2.8 billion in gross merchandise, according to documents it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the process of beginning an initial public offering.
As co-founder of one of iFIT’s early predecessors, 67-year-old apostle Gary E. Stevenson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had been nominated to become a board director and, at the time, stood to gain as much as $911.9 million for nearly 43.4 million iFIT shares he accumulated through the years.
The IPO also would have raised the value of shares for Robert C. Gay, formerly a member of Utah-based faith’s Quorum of the Seventy and co-founder of the company, by millions.
But the company withdrew its request for IPO in April of this year.
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Correction • 4 p.m., Nov. 14, 2022: This story has been updated to correct a previous characterization of the number of jobs lost in Utah.
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Global Organic Paper Dyes Market All-inclusive Report 2022-2029 - Current and Futuristic Potential - EIN News

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Organic Paper Dyes Market
The paper dye market is expected to grow at a high CAGR of 3.5% in the market to account for a higher market value of USD 1005.3 million by 2029.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, November 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Report Global Overview Includes:
- Collection and Analysis of Information
- Organic Paper Dyes Market Studies of Companies Undertake in a country
- Business Investment plans and Domestic Market
- Identify growth opportunities, market mergers, and acquisitions
Organic Paper Dyes Market report depicts the current situation of Organic Paper Dyes according to World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2022. The Report covered both the global Overview of Organic Paper Dyes market. It also signifies key components of the Organic Paper Dyes market that facilitates users to make vital business decisions and enhance the growth of market share. Basic product definitions, applications, industry chain structure, and classifications are also concealed in the Organic Paper Dyes report. Moreover, it details different market policies, and economic and technological frameworks of Organic Paper Dyes industry and market dynamics. Organic Paper Dyes industry Supply surplus, consumption value, major advancements, and product scope are also spotted in the report. The report includes a region-wise classification of industry.
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Global Organic Paper Dyes Market Segregation (Based on Manufacturers, Product Type and End-User Applications).
Top leading players influence the Organic Paper Dyes market such as Archroma
Atul
BASF
DyStar Singapore
Kemira.
Based On Product type
Powder
Liquid
Based on Applications
Packaging and board
Writing and printing paper
Coated paper
Others
Many artists seek ways to be safer and more eco-friendly. Organic paper dyes are one way to achieve this. These dyes are made of natural materials and are safe for the environment. You can also choose from a variety of colors to find the right color for your project.
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A further part of the Organic Paper Dyes report conveys precise information about growth rate, product modernization, and top prominent marketing players. It hands outs deeper correspondence between past and present market values to forecast future market inclinations of the Organic Paper Dyes industry. It also features different Organic Paper Dyes market threats to make users attentive regarding its impact on their market growth. Along with SWOT analysis, it also figures out investment feasibility and investment return analysis of the Organic Paper Dyes market. The Organic Paper Dyes industry report also greets the professionals and experts who have performed an in-depth survey and come up with different conducive results.
These dyes were once used only to color paper and cloth. Nowadays, paper is dyed with synthetic colors, which are more affordable and easier to make. Some companies use organic dyes to color their paper.
Organic paper dyes offer many benefits. Organic paper dyes are also environmentally friendly. When they are used, they do not emit harmful chemicals into the water or air. They can also produce beautiful colors. Many believe organic dyes produce a deeper and more vivid hue than synthetic dyes. Organic paper dyes have their disadvantages. They are more expensive than synthetic dyes.
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Although organic dyes are new to papermaking, the idea of using natural dyes for paper coloring is centuries-old. To create wide-ranging colors, early papermakers used dyes from insects, plants, and other sources. Organic paper dyes today are made from plant materials like berries, bark, leaves, and other plant material. These dyes are safe for the environment and non-toxic. These dyes are used by papermakers to make beautiful papers that are safe and sustainable for the environment.
The last, report displays an in-depth analysis of leading marketing players, product specifications, company profiles contact details, and production costs. Current Organic Paper Dyes market tendencies and marketing channels are also analyzed in Global Organic Paper Dyes market research report.
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