Who We Are
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Coats is a world-leading Tier 2 manufacturer and trusted partner for the apparel and footwear industries. We deliver essential materials, components, and software solutions that help our customers grow, compete and win.
With over 250 years of industry expertise, we’re shaping the future of the apparel and footwear supply chain through insight-led innovation, impactful sustainability practices, and digital technologies that unlock better product quality, efficiency and performance.
Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE 250 company and a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index. In 2024, we generated $1.5 billion in revenue and employed 16,000 people worldwide—all united by a spirit of innovation, quality and service.
Our Strategy
By leveraging innovation, sustainability, digital technologies and our global scale to create world-class products and services, we deliver value to our stakeholders.
- Accelerate profitable sales growth
- Transform the business
- Create value
Our Strategic Enablers
Pioneering a sustainable future
Sustainability is at the very heart of our strategy at Coats. It encompasses the products we create and sell through innovation, as well as how we manage our operations. Our investment in sustainability, and leadership in sustainable innovation provides a strong competitive advantage with our customers.
Developing innovative solutions
Innovation remains a core driver of incremental growth, enabling us to meet evolving market demands with highly engineered, differentiated solutions. We continue to strengthen our core technology in five areas – textile engineering, surface science, polymer science, fire science, and colour science – through strategic investments in capabilities and talent across our global Innovation hubs and spokes.
Delivering industry-leading digital services
Our digital offering is another differentiator and enhancing our global digital infrastructure and capability is a key piece of our strategy. We are accelerating our vision to build a digital platform ecosystem that creates end-to-end superior customer value for manufacturers and brands globally, spanning across product selection, sampling, ordering, tracking, customer service and payment management.