Manufactures, distributes and sells technical athletics and yoga apparel. The Company works in cooperation with various athletes to create designs specific to meet their needs. The Company sells its merchandise through 33 company-owned specialty retail locations, primarily in Canada with a presence in the US, Japan and Australia.
After 20 years in the surf, skate and snowboard business, founder Chip Wilson took the first commercial yoga class offered in Vancouver and found the result exhilarating. The post-yoga feeling was so close to surfing and snowboarding that it seemed obvious that yoga was an ideology whose time had come again.
Cotton clothing was being used for sweaty, stretchy power yoga and seemed completely inappropriate to Chip, whose passion lay in technical athletic fabrics. From this, a design studio was born that became a yoga studio at night to pay the rent.
Some believe working at Lululemon is like being in a cult. This Lululemon staffer wrote on the company blog about a naked yoga session she attended.
Lululemon employees are not just being friendly. They're gathering data on you. Wilson believes employees should ask their bosses this creepy question about surviving shipwrecks:. In , Lululemon falsely claimed its clothes were made with seaweed.
Wilson believes that if you get sick, it's your fault. And if your life isn't "great," then that's your fault too. In , Wilson resigned as chief innovation and branding officer. In March , The company sold some faulty pants that became see-through if you did the "downward dog" yoga position. The strategic difficulty was Lululemon's dependence on a single supplier for its stretchy Luon material. They're comfortable and stylish enough to be worn outside the gym.
The pants are so valuable to Lululemon that the company once sued Calvin Klein for making a pair a bit like them. Lululemon's success has inspired imitators. Dear Kate launched a line of yoga pants that can be worn safely with no underwear in , shortly after the see-through debacle.
Lululemon then recalled more than , women's tops due to dangerous hoodie drawstrings. Lululemon's ideal male customer is named "Duke.
In , amid surging sales, Lululemon introduced these "anti-ball-crushing pants" for men. Some men thought the logo on the trousers — normally associated with women — was off-putting. Some men also complained that Lululemon's "no boxer boxer" shorts fell apart too easily. Lululemon has also tried luring men in with its own beer That would end his formal association with the company completely. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Deal icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.
With his love of technical athletic clothing, Chip realized that the cotton clothing worn for power yoga at the time was both unpractical and inappropriate. Movements needed flexibility, breathability, and stretchiness that a person could sweat into while exercising. Keeping this in mind, Chip built a design workroom for his new apparel. Struggling with rent, he turned the design room into a yoga room at night. When naming the new company, Chip interviewed people and presented them with 20 brand names and logos, after which he came up with the name Lululemon, which has neither meaning nor roots.
The first Lululemon store was opened in the beach location of Vancouver in November The shop was meant to be a meeting place for people in the community to discuss matters like exercise, dieting, and cycling.
Lululemon grew fast as customers took to the products, and the workforce was keen to learn, challenge themselves, and expand. From the off, Lululemon had a solid mission that advocated for an active, healthy lifestyle. Inspired by philosopher and author Ayn Rand, Chip built the Lululemon brand aiming to elevate it from average to great. Lululemon strives to reflect its mission statement in its company culture. For example, store managers are given more say in the running of the stores, and the firm runs on decentralized company culture.
Today, Lululemon stores are heavily focused on interaction with local customers and community development. Almost all stores host nightly or weekly in-house events, with lessons ranging from beginner yoga to advanced yoga and self-defense and goal-setting workshops.
Workshops and events generally take place after store hours in the salesroom after products and racks have been shifted. Design Lululemon debuts first-ever uniforms for Olympic athletes Lululemon will outfit Team Canada for the next six years.
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