Coats Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | GB0002068202 |
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Uxbridge , Middlesex United Kingdom
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| Number of employees | 20,250 (end of 2013) |
| sales | 1.1 billion pounds (2013) |
| Branch | Textile material and tool industry |
| Website | www.coats.com |
Coats is a British company with significant German roots that dates back to the first half of the 18th century. It is the world's largest manufacturer of sewing and handicraft threads, the second largest manufacturer of zippers and one of the largest manufacturers of handicraft accessories such as sewing and knitting needles . The turnover in 2013 was 1.1 billion pounds worldwide and 74 million pounds in Germany.
Locations in Germany
- Herbolzheim , sewing, crochet, embroidery threads for the trade
- Bräunlingen , sales; Service dyeing, industrial sewing thread production, storage and dispatch will be relocated to Hungary in 2015
- Salach , hand knitting yarn
- Hamburg , wholesale
- Westrhauderfehn , zippers for trade and industry
In Austria, the company owned Harlander Coats in St. Pölten from 1923 to 1991 .
history
In 2015 the Coats Group sold the European handicraft division to the German investor Aurelius .
Web links
- International website (English)
- German website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Coats Group in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2013 ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English), www.coats.com, accessed on May 31, 2014.
- ^ Archived copy ( Memento of February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) see also: Carl Mez
- ↑ AURELIUS agrees to take over the European handicraft division from market leader Coats plc. In: aureliusinvest.de. February 19, 2015, accessed May 27, 2020 .