Alpkit

Alpkit is a UK direct-to-consumer performance outdoor brand. According to its about page, it started online in 2004 and has opened 10 stores in the last 6 years, from Bristol and Kingston-upon-Thames in the south to Inverness in the North. It describes itself as carbon neutral, a living wage foundation employer and Certified B Corp, and gives 10% of profit and 1% of all sales to direct action grass roots projects through Alpkit Foundation. Its homepage lists tents, bivvy bags, camping, hiking, trail running, mountaineering, outdoor swimming, climbing and paddling categories, and states it runs the UK's biggest instore repair service. Sonder Bikes, launched in 2015, is presented as part of the Alpkit offering.

Alpkit's about page states that it started online in 2004 and has opened 10 stores in the last 6 years, from Bristol and Kingston-upon-Thames in the south to Inverness in the North. It describes itself as founded on friendship, a love of adventure and a deep frustration at the high cost of top-end gear, and says it now has over 200 staff and has grown by almost 50% per annum compound over the last decade. Sonder Bikes launched in 2015 with 3 bikes for UK mixed terrain and road conditions.

UK's only direct-to-consumer performance brand for those that run, hike, climb, camp, swim and bike.

• Tents

  1 - 6 person tents for wild camps and basecamp comfort.

• Bivvy bags

  Listed under camping on the homepage.

• Technical apparel

  Described as flagship technical apparel for mountaineering.

• Footwear

  Developed with bootmakers in the foothills of the Dolomites.

• Sonder Bikes

  Bikes including Camino, El Camino, Sedona, Colibri, Signal, Broken Road, Frontier, Falco and Santiago.

1. 1Alpkit | Go Nice Places Do Good Thingsalpkit.com
2. 2Alpkit, Sonder and Trakke: UK outdoor clothing, bikes and gearalpkit.com
3. 3My Productsalpkit.com
4. 4About Sonder Bikes – Hand-Built Customisable Bikesalpkit.com