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1993-present
Wuxi Xingtai Marine Equipment Co., Ltd. was founded in 1993 and manufactures marine lifesaving equipment, including life jackets, lifebuoys, thermal insulation suits, and life rafts. Additionally, it manufactures a variety of lifesaving equipment indicator lights and signals.
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1998-2021
KIT Design 1998–2021Garmentec 2021–present
KIT Design was founded in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1998. The company worked in partnership with the Metropolitan Police to develop a range of ‘fit for purpose’ high-performance work uniforms and clothing in response to a demand for advanced technical clothing specifically within the UK police force. In 2000, following the delivery of custom-made police cycling uniforms throughout the UK, the company expanded into other areas of technical workwear. This included the development of the X-Form equipment vest. KIT Design moved to the premises of Sheffield uniform company Style Workwear in 2014. Style Workwear rebranded to Style Uniforms in 2017, and a parent company called Garmentec was established. In 2021, Style Uniforms and KIT Design formally merged to become Garmentec, the parent company’s new name.
Source: garmentec.co.uk.
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1995-1997
Production was a label established by Massimo Osti in 1995. He aimed for it to consist of a series of products rather than fashion pieces. Features of the collections included Tecnowool (wool bonded with nylon) and the 'double use' styles with linings that could be worn separately.
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1962-1982
Irvine Sellar (1934–2017) left school at the age of sixteen to take over the running of his father’s glove shop in St Albans. He began selling clothing on market stalls outside London in about 1957 and later relocated to Petticoat Lane in London’s East End. His first store opened in St Albans, followed by another in Wood Green and a third on Wardour Street in Soho, all of which sold mid-priced post–Teddy Boy clothing. In the early 1960s, Sellar and his wife Elizabeth spotted the potential of Carnaby Street, where they converted a greengrocer’s and a laundry into Irvine Sellars Menswear. The basement of number 27 was used for womenswear. After struggling to get clothing manufacturers to produce his designs, he began producing them himself; in 1969, his company produced 70 per cent of the menswear he sold. By 1969, Irvine Sellars had established a chain of twenty-four boutiques, including Mates by Irvine Sellars, which claimed to be the first chain store to offer men’s and women’s clothing under one roof, and a blueprint for modern retailing. Mates had grown to ninety stores by 1981, at which point Sellar sold the company to a South African investment group. However, by 1982 the chain had gone into receivership.Sources: Property Week; The Express; The Independent.