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A very happy Jan

Tasmanian entrepreneur and Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron has emerged from five years of ‘no compete’ exile to take a big stake in rival outdoor adventure wear company Macpac.

Fiona Carruthers | Carrie LaFrenz
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Jan Cameron , one of Australia’s richest women, is back on the acquisition trail. The Tasmanian entrepreneur who founded and sold adventure wear giant Kathmandu has emerged from five years of “no compete" exile to take a significant stake in up and coming outdoor adventure wear company Macpac.

She plans to transform Mac­pac in the same way she did Kathmandu , the company she founded with a sleeping bag in the 1970s and sold to Quadrant Private Equity fund in 2006 for $300 million.

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