"We make more patents than [US space agency] Nasa every year"

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Thu 19 Sep '13

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Those into world trail running will be well aware of the exploits of Kilian Jornet, and probably by now his trademark red and white shoes, the Salomon Sense. This shoe is at the heart of the current R&D goings-on of Salomon in France…

And in this article Greg Vollet gives some insight into the Salomon design centre in Annecy, and how hundreds (if not thousands) of man hours go into producing what appears in our running stores some 20 months after initial concept.

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