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Шаблон:Infobox company Grana is an online fashion company based in Hong Kong.[1][2] It has an offline showroom called “The Fitting Room”[3] in Hong Kong, where customers try on clothes and order online.[2] It was cofounded by Luke Grana and Pieter-Paul Wittgen and officially launched in October 2014.[4] The first brick-and-mortar store opened in Hong Kong in September 2015.[2]

Products

Шаблон:Expand section The company sources its products directly from fabric mills, which reduces markup pricing.[5] Grana clothing products include silks, linen, cashmere, merino, tencel, pima cotton and baby alpaca wools.[6] The fabrics are sourced internationally from a variety of countries including China,[7] France,[8] Mongolia,[9] Austria,[10] Peru[11][12] and Italy.[13] Grana’s ‘new luxury’ brand focuses its ethic on sustainable fashion setting itself apart from mass consumerism.[14][15] Central to Grana’s business and production is ethical manufacturing.[16]

History

Grana’s CEO and founder, Luke Grana, set up the company as an online-only direct-to-consumer seller.[17]

Prior to becoming CEO and namesake of Grana, he was a serial entrepreneur from Australia. He had previously invested in the catering industry among other areas, and seeded his first fashion brand, Grana, with $200,000 in 2014.[18][19][20] Grana raised the initial seed round of US $1 million from Bluebell group and angel investors in October 2014,[21] and in July 2015, closed another seed funding round of US $1.5 million involving investors from Singaporean VC Golden Gate Ventures.[2] In 2016, Grana announced their Series A funding round of US $10 million led by Alibaba Group under The Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, with participation from existing investors.[22] By 2017, Grana had been the recipient of nine separate investments from various companies totaling $16 million.[23]

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