The company was founded in 1995 as a Florida Corporation by Steve Wuest and Ray Booska. The company mascot, an Emperor Penguin, is featured on all our literature and advertising and is the King of Cool. Our branding is oriented toward making Glacier Tek, Inc., creator of The Original Cool Vest, to be widely accepted as the King of Cool.

• 1995 - The company is founded, incorporated, and relocated from a garage into a real manufacturing facility.
• 1997 - Glacier Tek, Inc. moves to West Melbourne to a larger building.
• 1998 - We expand and hire our first employees.
• 1999 - Glacier Tek establishes an e-commerce website, one of the earliest in the industry.
• 2000 - product line expands to include new models, including flame retardant Banox FR-3.
• 2001 - Additional factory machinery was added to bring all operations in-house.
• 2001 - We created military model products using mil-spec camouflage materials.
• 2002 - The URL www.coolvest.com was acquired to make it easier for customers to find us online.
• 2003 - We hired more customer service and sales people to meet growing demand.
• 2004 - Our manufacturing facility was expanded to 6,000 square feet.
• 2004 - Patent-pending status for RPCM® Cool Vests and bladders using renewable PCM's was awarded by the US Patent & Trademark Office and we became the only phase change cooling product on the market containing no hazardous chemicals.
• 2005 - We introduced Cool Armor®, the first phase change cooling accessory designed specifically for wearers of ballistic armor.
• 2005: ChillyDog®, a new body cooling vest was developed for military and law enforcement working dogs and Military War Dogs (MWD). We donated the first twenty units to our military K-9's in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• 2006: ChillyPup™, a cooling vest for smaller dogs was introduced and began spreading like wildfire in the show and agility dog circuits.