Amazon has backpacks from several popular brands on sale to scoop up for the 2024-2025 school year Even the most school-averse kiddos can get behind back-to-school season when a new backpack is ...

JanSport Laptop Backpack. $52.95. ... With over 16,000 five-star reviews, it's clear that this backpack is highly praised among reviewers. It comes in a wide variety of colors, ...

Day packs accounted for half of JanSport’s sales in 1985, and by 2015 the company was reportedly selling 8 million backpacks a year. The oldest of three brothers, Murray John Pletz was born in ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students ...

By the mid-1980s, JanSport bags were ubiquitous in colleges and high schools. When The New York Times published Mr. McCory’s obituary on Monday, readers shared memories of their JanSports in the ...

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