Our Story
Established in Vancouver, Canada in 2000 by owners Glenn Taylor and Leslie Lee, Orb is an extraordinary Canadian-based company, employing talented and driven individuals fully engaged in their passion of designing, developing and delivering lasting quality apparel, relationships and services. Orb strives to provide uncommon value and contribution to retailers, end users, suppliers, employees and partners and is proud to uphold these core values of the company. Enabling the success and exceeding the expectations of the people and companies Orb chooses to do business with is the sole purpose for the company’s success in the past, present and future.
Orb is empowering. The intent of Orb is to inspire all to live empowering lives of generosity; creating and attracting brilliance, beauty and well-being. The Orb design triad of mind, body and soul represents an active, fashion-forward lifestyle, designed to enhance the momentum of people engaged in living purposeful lives – to live like you mean it!
Orb collections offer a fashionable sports-inspired clothing line to over 300 stores across Canada, the US and in Europe for thoughtful, energized and inspired women. Orb’s reach continues to grow as our retail and industry partnerships flourish.
Orb has united with an inspiring list of not-for-profits, women’s groups, children’s groups, educational efforts and most recently has announced its alliance with Free The Children (freethechildren.com). Orb’s purpose beyond self is to ensure a portion of all profits from the revenues of its outerwear program are allocated to promote the FTC ‘We Schools in Action’ initiative. Providing support for children to learn, then teach and inspire others flows close to Leslie’s heart. It is her intention to align Orb fully with the importance of sound education for our youth.
Orb exists to enhance the quality of all life
E.T.H.I.C.S.
E.T.H.I.C.S.
Earth, Team, Harmonized business, Investors, Customers, Society
Earth ~ (Enriching environment through effective and respectful use of resources) Orb believs this is a rich, beautiful and abundant planet and the way to enhance it while enhancing our lives is to increase our awareness, treat all life including ourselves and each other with utmost respect and admiration, to be grateful and appreciative of nature, increase our understanding and accept that absolutely everything is connected. Heathy air ,water and food is a healthy mind, body and soul.
Team ~ (Inspired employees, reps, suppliers and consultants) Orb strives to inspire and enable all involved to live and achieve the life they see possible for themselves. To support people with personal and career development either within or without the company.
Harmonized business ~ ( Enabling Healthy, happy and succesful suppliers, employees and customer relationships makes a succesful and prosperous company. Orb enables all to make fair profits from all transactions. Suppliers are treated fairly and communicated with openly. It is important that suppliers receive both financial and personal gratification from their involvement with Orb. Orb is committed to building and sustaining win-win relationships with clear and pre~ established expectations laid out in advance.
Investors ~ (Happy shareholders) Orb enables us to live generously, contribute beyond self, spread a vibe of vitality, possibility, well being and inspiration, providing purpose and meaning beyond fashion and fit. Profit to our company is like oxygen to our body. Getting it is not why we do what we do, but it is nessesary and enables us to do what we do. We believe Dollars are just like thank you notes. They show up when we do things that people appreciate and we send them to people that enable us to do what we love.
Customers ~ (Retailers profit and end users are inspired) Orb consistently delivers quality, inspiring, supportive, lasting, fun and rewarding relationships, products and service.
Society ~ (Community contribution) Orb contributes positively to the well being of employees, families, friends, community, country and planet at all times and inspires all people and companies to do the same.
Orb Purpose: enhancing the quality of all life
Partners
Partners of Orb are individuals, organizations (not-for-profit or for-profit), charities, clubs, mentorship programs or companies who share our core values; strength in community, belief in each other and a deep empowered desire to make positive investments in our shared world. Each opportunity we have is huge - from Habitat For Humanity, local soccor clubs, motorX team sponsorships, Cancer Prevention funding and even Doctors Without Borders, Orb continues to be honoured by the interest in positive alliances with our brand. Please see the application page for further information.