Английская Википедия:Coats Group
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Coats Group plc is a British multinational company. It is the world's largest thread and structural components' manufacturer for apparel, footwear, and performance materials. Founded over 250 years ago, the UK-based company has operations across 50 countries with a workforce of over 17,000 employees.
The company provides products, including apparel, accessory and footwear threads, structural components for footwear and accessories, fabrics, yarns, and software applications.
Coats is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index and FTSE4Good Index. Revenues in 2022 were $1.6bn.
History
In 1755 James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland.[1] In 1806 Patrick Clark invented a way of twisting cotton together to substitute for silk that was unavailable due to the French blockade of Great Britain. He opened the first plant for manufacturing the cotton thread in 1812.[1] In 1864 the Clark family began manufacturing in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., as the Clark Thread Co.[1]
In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business, also in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread[2] and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats.[2] The firm expanded internationally, particularly to the United States. In 1890 Coats listed on the London Stock Exchange,[2] with capital of £5.7 million.[2] In 1896 J. and P. Coats acquired controlling interests in the firms of Clark and Co, Jonas Brook and Brothers and James Chadwick and Brother.[3]
In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged to become Coats & Clark's.[4] In 1961 a merger with Patons and Baldwins created Coats Patons.[2] In 1986 a merger with Vantona Viyella created Coats Viyella.[5] In 2003 Guinness Peat took Coats private and in 2015 the business returned to the market as "Coats Group".[6]
The company acquired the footwear components business, Texon, in July 2022,[7] and the footwear reinforcement components business, Rhenoflex, in August 2022.[8]
Controversy
In 2007 Coats was fined €110 million by the European Commission for participation in cartels with Prym, YKK and other companies to fix and manipulate the prices of zips and other fasteners, and of the machinery to make them. One of the cartels ran for twenty-one years. An appeal in 2012 to the General Court of the European Union was dismissed, and the fine upheld.[9][10]
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- ↑ Aoife White (27 June 2012). Coats and YKK Lose EU Court Challenges Over Antitrust Fines. Bloomberg. Accessed March 2015.
- ↑ Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 27 June 2012. Coats Holdings Ltd v European Commission. Competition – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Markets for zip fasteners and ‘other fasteners’ – Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC – Coordinated price increases, fixing of minimum prices, customer-sharing, market-sharing and exchange of other commercial information – Evidence – Single and continuous infringement – Limitation period – Rights of the defence – Fines – Guidelines. Case T-439/07. Accessed March 2015.
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