{"id":226885,"date":"2026-06-24T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226885\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:46:07","slug":"pittsburghs-day-owl-selling-off-inventory-plans-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226885\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh\u2019s Day Owl selling off inventory, plans to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Day Owl, maker of sustainable bags and backpacks made of fabric from discarded plastic bottles, is calling it quits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">CEO\/Founder Ian Rosenberger announced via email to customers and others in the community that the company is selling its inventory and using the money to pay down debt \u201cand give the team as much of a cushion as possible.\u201d Financials weren\u2019t available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Day Owl, whose origins go back to 2010, launched in March 2020 in Homewood after a successful crowdfunding campaign where more than $600,000 in bags sold in six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/22\/day-owl-closing.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/22\/day-owl-closing.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Day Owl, maker of sustainable bags and backpacks made of fabric from discarded plastic bottles, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[65378,65372,13307,98448,98452,98454,98453,12933,98450,73,98449,98455,75,74,98446,1397,98451,1128,98447],"class_list":["post-226885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-backpack","tag-backpacks","tag-bag","tag-bags","tag-day-owl","tag-day-owl-closed","tag-day-owl-closing","tag-green","tag-green-bags","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-backpacks","tag-pittsburgh-day-owl","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-sustainable-bags","tag-plastic","tag-plastic-bottles","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-bags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}