Icebreaker relocation heats up apparel scene in Portland. Company is leaving Ketchum, Idaho

Icebreaker http://www.icebreaker.com/site/careers.html is warming to Portland.

After locating an expanded global design center here in January 2007, leaders at the New Zealand-based purveyor of merino wool sports apparel will move the company’s U.S. headquarters to Portland from Idaho.

"It’s not easy to build a high-talent team in a town with only one flight in a day," said Icebreaker CEO Jeremy Moon of his decision to relocate U.S. headquarters from Ketchum, Idaho.

Portland Business Journal – by Robin J. Moody Business Journal staff writer

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