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When C.M. Bishop 111
talks about the family business—Pendleton
Woolen Mills—it isn’t the vibrant wool
blankets he mentions first or the soft plaid
shirts. Instead, he talks about the Golden
Rule that has guided the company for five
generations: Do unto others as you would
have others do unto you.
“We live where we work," says Bishop
111, 52, president of the Portland, Ore.-
based company. “We are not anonymous.
We are not removed.”
In accordance to that rule, family ties are
respected and revered, employees and sup-
pliers are a valued part of
the Pendleton team, and
customers can count on
quality. Bishop 111 says.
Those same principles
have guided the woolen
products and clothing
manufacturer since 1909
when the third-genera-
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B.H. Bishop and son Charles inspect fleece at Pendleton Woolen Mill in Washougal, Wash.
colors into bold blanket designs that are
still popular today. American Indians
purchase 50 percent of the jacquard-pat
tern trade blankets sold by the company
annually.
Though the blankets are a corner
stone of the family business, the
Pendleton product line has expanded
over the decades to
include menswear, womens
clothing and home products
such as pillows, rugs, bed
skirts and baby blankets.
These products are sold
online, in catalogs, and in 69
Pendleton-owned shops,
affiliate stores and 1,000 spe
cialty shops across America.
Sewn into the seams of
the Pendleton blankets
and other signature items
is a blue and gold tag that
declares that the product
is “Warranted to be a
Pendleton.”
“We are only putting the
Pendleton name on a prod
uct that is 100 percent virgin
wool,” says C.M. Bishop Jr.,
79, the father of Bishop 111,
who started working for the
company as a child, opening
fleece-filled sacks that had
arrived by rail car.
The Bishop family over
sees all aspects of business
operations, including the company head
quarters in Portland, the mills in
Pendleton and Washougal, Wash. (pop.
8,595), and three other manufacturing
and distribution centers across America.
The mills are filled with wool pro
cessing, dying, weaving and quality-
control equipment that monitors every
thing from the condition of the fleece to
color consistency. But it’s the company’s
950 employees and fine fleece producers
around the world that protect the
Pendleton reputation.
“There is no sense in producing a
product if we can’t do it properly,” says
Fred Parrish, who has worked
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for the company for 35 years.
Like Parrish, 15 percent of
all Pendleton employees have
been with the company for 25
years or more. Many had par
ents or grandparents who
worked for the company.
Some of Pendelton’s sup
pliers also are descended from
families who sold fleece to the
Bishops a century ago. And
loyal customers keep coming
back, too, for the woolen
products woven by the
Bishop family for five gen
erations.
“There are Indian eld
ers who remember dealing
with my great-grandfather,”
Bishop 111 says with pride.
“So much in this society is
disposable these days.
Pendleton is built to last.”
Polly Campbell is a freelance
writer in Beaverton. Ore.
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