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Billings Gazette: Harvard MBA students pitch in for Red Ants Pants
But this summer four second-year Harvard MBA students have given a new twist to the typical summer internship. As part of an eight-week, cross-country journey, they landed in White Sulphur Springs in late July where they met up with Sarah Calhoun, founder of Red Ants Pants.
Learn moreBillings Gazette: Business digest- Montana Stockgrowers Association and Montana CattleWomen Annual Convention
Speakers will include Sarah Calhoun, owner and founder of Red Ants Pants, and Barbara Jackson, American National CattleWomen president. The Zoetis Cattlemen’s Colleges will be held Dec. 12-13 featuring Derrell Peel; Charles Breedlove, professor of agribusiness; Larry Gran and Dan Ellis, both with Zoetis Animal Health, and Rich Linhart, managing veterinarian with Zoetis Animal Health. The show, which is open to the public Dec. 12-13, will feature more than 100 companies providing all types of products, services and the latest technology to the cattle industry.
Learn moreBozeman Daily Chronicle: Local business owners ask Daines to preserve public land
Sarah Calhoun, a BMFO member and owner of Red Ants Pants in White Sulphur Springs, attended Saturday’s tour at Mystery Ranch. Red Ants Pants makes work pants for women and puts on an annual summer music festival. “(Public lands are) obviously a big asset for both industry and quality of life out here,” she said. “It kind of defines who we are as Montanans and the freedom that comes along with it.”
Learn moreBozeman Daily Chronicle: Calhoun Appointed to State Workforce Investment Board
Sarah Calhoun, founder and owner of Red Ants Pants, was appointed by Gov. Steve Bullock to the State Workforce Investment Board.
Learn moreBillings Gazette: Business leaders statewide on ‘Key Industry’ commitees
Gov. Steve Bullock, in conjunction with the co-chairs of his Main Street Montana Project, Bill Johnstone and Larry Simkins, has appointed a number of Montana business leaders to be co-chairs of Key Industry Networks to implement the business plan. Small business/downtown: Sara Calhoun, White Sulphur Springs, owner of Red Ants Pants, which makes work pants for women and Scott Brown, Billings, owner of the Base Camp outdoor stores in Helena and Billings.
Learn moreBillings Gazette: From the Editor: These MBA students are lending a hand on Main Street
Last summer, a team of graduate students from Harvard University rolled into White Sulphur Springs to lend a hand to one of the central Montana town’s best known businesses, Red Ants Pants. Mike Baker, Casey Gerald, Amaris Singer and Hiham Alaoui were the founding members of MBAs Across America. The organization was formed as an opportunity for second-year MBA students to obtain real-world experience working with business owners. Instead of putting in long hours in a corporate cubicle, a typical assignment for many summer interns, these students launched a mission to assist small-business owners while also experiencing a slice of Main Street America. Red Ants Pants, a manufacturer of rugged, American-made work pants designed specifically for women, is a made-in-Montana success story whose products have achieved a cult following. Sarah Calhoun, the founder of Red Ants Pants, says the company was spawned from necessity. While doing trail work and other kinds of physical labor, Calhoun could never find work pants that fit the female figure, so she developed her own rugged pants geared toward working women. Proceeds from the annual Red Ants Pants Music Festival provide grants for women’s leadership projects, working family farms and ranches and rural communities. Calhoun formed the Red Ants Pants Foundation in 2011.
Learn moreBozeman Daily Chronicle: Do it yourself, How Sarah Calhoun built Red Ants Pants from the ground up
After years of doing hard labor in ill-fitting pants that fell down and were all around un-flattering, Red Ants Pants proprietor Sarah Calhoun decided to make a change: There were no work pants specifically for women available on the market, so she was going to start a company and do it herself.
Learn moreBozeman Daily Chronicle: Montana, Gallatin County reaping benefit of public lands
In the opening keynote, Red Ants Pants founder Sarah Calhoun told the story about starting her company and how Montana’s wilderness inspired her into a successful business. “We are driven by this place, these wild lands,” Calhoun said. “We need to embrace that.”
Learn moreBozeman Daily Chronicle: Opinion: Montana’s public lands driving our economy forward
At Red Ants Pants, we understand how important public lands are to Montana’s businesses. Our idyllic location is one of the secrets of our success. It’s certainly a competitive advantage. We know we have a responsibility to protect access to the land and water that has done so much for this business.
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