Yates Outdoor Sales to Cover GSI Outdoors in Ontario, Canada

GSI Outdoors, a leading supplier of outdoor cooking and dining products, has retained Yates Outdoor Sales headed up by Kevin Yates to oversee sales and marketing efforts in Ontario, Canada, effective January 1, 2010. The announcement was made by Mike Glavin, sales and marketing director for GSI Outdoors.

A respected salesman and an active outdoor enthusiast, Kevin will focus on strengthening the GSI Outdoors brand in Ontario by building dealer relationships and developing targeted product assortments that fit the needs of their market. Along with GSI Outdoors, he represents several other innovative outdoor technical brands including Marmot and Garmont.

“GSI Outdoors is well positioned for growth in Canada and I feel that Kevin will play an integral role in achieving our goals of increased sales and deeper market penetration,” commented Mike Glavin.

Kevin can be reached at 905.483.4166 or yatesoutdoor@gmail.com


GSI Outdoors is in the business of making cookware and dining products that adapt the comforts of home to active outdoor lifestyles at the campsite, base camp and anywhere in between. In 1985, brothers Don and Ian Scott and sister Kathy started the company in San Diego and then moved to Spokane, Washington in 1995, where they have been ever since. In 2001, GSI Outdoors started distributing outdoor related gifts under the name of Outside Inside. What began as a small distribution company selling blue enamel tableware has expanded into the design, manufacturing, sales and marketing of an innovative array of outdoor cookware and a whole range of eating and drinking products that are technical, innovative and fun. GSI Outdoors products are distributed worldwide.