Yeti, the Nordisk brand of high-end sleeping bags, is highly endangered after it suffered from heavy rainfalls in August. The company is located at the Polish-German border where the flooding of the Neiße river caused severe damage. The water came up to 2 meters in the warehouse and the production facility, and destroyed merchandise worth some €1 million. The total damage is estimated to be €2 million. The company now badly depends on governmental help from the Free State of Saxony, but the management has doubts whether any substantial help from the state will ever arrive. It was impossible to insure the facility, since the insurance companies rated the location as a “risky area.” The German brand stuck to its production in Görlitz at the Polish border, partially due to the fact that some of the best duck and goose downs in the world usually come from the neighboring country.
