“Every three months, Angelo flies down to Argentina or Chile to spend a month at a time with our managers and 90-plus employees. He handles almost everything in South America, while I manage our store here in Park City. Angelo is an amazing leader; leadership is his superpower,” Carolina says. “Some of our managers have been with us over 35 years!”
The decision to leave South America and manage their businesses remotely was a difficult one, but the couple had fallen in love with Summit County. For 16 years, they traveled to Salt Lake City for the Outdoor Retailer expos and once they bought a home in Midway in 2016, they started visiting so much that their vacation home evolved into their permanent home.
When Carolina and Angelo announced that they were moving to the U.S., their friends at Northland Professional, an Austrian performance outerwear company that the couple had been doing business with for over 25 years, asked if they would consider opening a U.S. flagship store for Northland.
At first, Carolina and Angelo thought, “Who needs another clothing store? There are so many here!”
But after carefully assessing the local retail industry, they realized their decades of experience and relationships gave them access to a unique and curated selection of brands. In addition to gear from familiar companies like Black Diamond and Helly Hansen, their Park City shop sell brands that can’t be found anywhere else in North America — like Northland Professional’s outerwear — and socially conscious brands like Tentree, which plants 10 trees for every article of clothing purchased. They also sell clothing and gear from Vuori, On, 686, Pendleton, Birkenstock and more.