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Outdoor Retailer is leaving Denver for Salt Lake City, industry leaders promise to boycott

Outdoor Retailer is moving its twice-a-year trade shows out of Denver and back to Salt Lake City.  The national outdoor trade show with a $45 million annual impact left Utah in 2017 after industry heavyweights blasted the state’s leaders for supporting the reduction of federally-protected national monuments. It will return to its 20-year home in […]

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Colorado’s outdoor industry rallies to keep Outdoor Retailer trade show in Denver

The outdoor industry flexed its newfound political muscle five years ago by leaving Utah and taking its twice-a-year Outdoor Retailer trade shows to Colorado. Outdoor brands and advocates, irked over Utah’s push to dismantle protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, moved their annual gatherings — which draw 85,000 visitors and stir an […]