"JanSport is an American brand of backpacks, currently owned by VF Firm, among the world's biggest garments companies. The business was founded in 1967 in Seattle, Washington by Murray Pletz, his partner Janice "" Jan"" Lewis (for whom the business is named), and his cousin Skip Yowell. JanSport innovated with a panel-loading daypack, unlike typical top-loading packs. In 1975 it introduced the first exchangeable traveling pack along with its signature daypack. [3] In 1986, VF acquired JanSport's then parent, Blue Bell.

The business's home office is currently based in Alameda, California, at VF Outdoor head office where it shares offices with local siblings Napapijri and The North Face. Its circulation center in Everett, Washington considering that 1971, closed March 2012. JanSport likewise has awarehouse in Appleton, Wisconsin which houses its college garments division. [4] JanSport is the world's largest knapsack manufacturer, and also together, JanSport and also The North Face market virtually half of all little knapsacks marketed in the United States.

JanSport began by developing the outside structure knapsack, which made use of a steel structure with a towel packsack connected to it; the products made consist of technical day packs and interior framework knapsacks. Up up until the early 1990s, all JanSport packs were made in the USA."