Heritage

Orvis. For more than 150 years our name has stood for outdoor traditions, quality, and customer satisfaction. In 1856, Charles Orvis founded the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, offering the finest fly fishing equipment, and priding himself on customer satisfaction and service. Today, along with our world famous fly-fishing gear, Orvis offers distinctive clothing, home furnishings, gifts, and dog products. Each item is rooted in our heritage of authenticity and the outdoors, and is backed with a no-questions-asked guarantee. As the longest-running mail order business in the United States, and with our flagship retail store located in the same Vermont village as the original store since 1856, we offer you experience and knowledge that no other retail company can. Each day we strive to apply what we know and learn to bring you even better service and products tomorrow.

Mission

At Orvis, our mission is to use our 150+ year history of customer satisfaction and quality products to provide you with the finest items and service available, without exception. As the nation's oldest mail order business, and one of the longest-running retailers in the U.S., we are uniquely suited to accomplish our mission and to exceed customer expectations. Steeped in a heritage of outdoor traditions and distinctive country living, we invite our customers to enjoy a life that expresses a deep appreciation for the natural environment. Each year, to reflect our own appreciation of our sporting traditions and our commitment to the natural environment, we donate 5% of our pre-tax profits to conservation efforts nationwide.

Orvis Everywhere

Today, Orvis is much more than mail order. Though millions of our loyal and longtime customers receive Orvis catalogs each year, we now have more than 44 Orvis retail stores in the U.S. and the UK, and more than 500 Orvis dealers worldwide who sell and service the Orvis product line. Our newest stores have recently opened in Cleveland, Charlotte and Dedham, MA. And Orvis products continue to win accolades every year. The Orvis website offers our widest range of our award-winning products for men’s and women’s clothing, fishing, home, dogs, hunting, and sales. All of this is just a click away, and arranged for the easiest of browsing and ordering, with updated and in-depth product information, Orvis-endorsed lodges information, free fly fishing tips and expert articles, travel packages, and much more.

Conservation

Orvis began in 1856 as a fly fishing company. To this day we remain more committed than ever to the sporting traditions and the natural environment. Orvis donates 5% of pre-tax profits annually to organizations that protect fish and wildlife habitat. Over the last six years, we've donated nearly $5 million to these organizations, including Trout Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, Coastal Conservation Association, Ducks Unlimited, The Conservation Fund, Ruffed Grouse Society, and The Atlantic Salmon Fund. Read more about our active projects for 2008 and descriptions of our most recently completed past projects.

At Orvis.com, We Listen

An integral part of the Orvis multichannel network, orvis.com brings the strength of our sporting traditions and distinctive country lifestyle to a state-of-the-art electronic platform. Working behind the scenes, numerous people and departments synergize to create seamless, world-class web service. We consistently seek ways to optimize the experience and products we offer. We exist to bring you, our customers, the very services and applications you most need and want. We rely on your feedback to tell us how we can best serve you.