also a partner with oil and gas industry. so thank you, north face, and you are welcome. let s bring in liberty oil ceo chris. north face has some explaining to do. chris, welcome. shannon, glad to be here. shannon: just to get some background, back in december last year, a texas oil and gas company said they wanted to order some jackets for their company. they have done this before. they like to order things with logos on them. and here s how it was reported in a local station there. the company providing the jackets that the north face doesn t want to support the oil and gas industry the same way they would reject the industry or tobacco industry. they told us we did not meet their brain standards. he said we were separately informed what they really meant is that we were in oil and gas company. so chris, their right to decide who is a private company they want to do business with. no? no, absolutely their right to
decide. but it was a wise decision, i m not so sure. but it s their right. shannon: so you are now saying that you have gone through and looked at their products and that they absolutely are involved with the industry. explain how that works. there jackets, the jacket they would make, the outer layer is nylon. that is literally made out of oil and gas and petrochemicals. the stuffing that makes it puffy, that is made out of oil and gas. the biggest thing to be said that s cannot be made without oil and gas. north face is not one is their business and industry wouldn t exist without it. shannon: who are saying you went through and the products that they had are primarily involved in some way with your
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