Canadian-based Integral Designs has been purchased by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd. the parent company of Rab USA. Integral Designs is a manufacturer of technical outerwear and equipment and is well known in the outdoor industry and has some niche followers in the military mainly concentrated in the SOF community under the Integral Tactical brand. Integral Designs will remain an independent brand under Equip Outdoor Technologies while sales support, warehousing, marketing direction and other administrative functions relating will be transferred to Louisville, Colorado. The Calgary-based plant will continue to manufacture Integral Designs products until mid-2011.
Evan Jones and the current team at Integral Designs will continue to own and operate the Calgary-based manufacturing center where they will manufacture specialized non-consumer products for government and institutional accounts under the Integral Tactical brand.
So the commercial side of ID was sold and the tactical brand will remain.