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Cariloha this week opened its first store in Portland’s Pioneer Place Mall at 700 SW 5th Ave Ste. 1295 with a grand opening celebration that includes any Cariloha customer receiving a free bamboo lei just for stopping by the store, along with several other bamboo product giveaways for lucky customers.
Store visitors will also enjoy experiencing Cariloha’s entire line of bamboo products, including men’s and women’s apparel, bedding, bath goods, fitness wear, handbags, and more, all made from eco-friendly bamboo fabrics. Cariloha’s flagship products include irresistibly soft bed sheets, bath towels and shirts.
Cariloha Portland store owner, Harish Patel, first experienced the softness of Cariloha bamboo while visiting Aruba with his family. He was impressed by both the quality of the products and corporate values. He will be staffing his store with local staff members and corporately hired interns.
“Portland has a very environmentally conscious and sustainably focused demographic,” said Patel. “I’m confident that Cariloha will be a great match for Portland’s identity. Pioneer Courthouse Square is the living room of Portland and in the heart of Portland, which makes it an ideal location for Cariloha products.”
Bamboo clothing and linens offer unique benefits. It’s 3 degrees cooler than cotton and wicks moisture away from the skin. It also repels odors and allergens naturally without any harmful chemicals. Above all, bamboo fabric is unbelievably soft compared to luxury fabrics like cashmere and silk but without the luxury fabric price.
“Customers in this area are looking for natural, eco-friendly products that will meet their demands for luxury, style and performance,” Patel said. “Cariloha’s staff is dedicated to providing a unique, educational shopping experience by using display panels that help to inform customers of the bamboo features and benefits of the comfortable, green fabric.”
Pioneer Place Mall is closely located to everything that downtown Portland has to offer, such as restaurants, cafés, breweries, shopping, movies theaters, museums, performing art centers, etc. Most visitors are there to shop, dine, see a movie or visit any of the outdoor events (throughout the year) in Pioneer Courthouse Square or the water front park.
Cariloha has been rapidly expanding its international and domestic presence for the past seven years now with 19 corporately owned and 34 independently owned stores in 14 countries. Other stores are found in Mexico, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Barbados, Aruba, Curacao, Honduras, St. Maarten, Bahamas, Antigua, Bonaire, Jamaica and various cities throughout the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.