Who We Are
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Coats is a world leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear, as well as an innovative pioneer in performance materials.
These critical solutions are used to create a wide range of products, including ones that provide safety and protection for people, data and the environment. Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE250 company and a FTSE4Good Index constituent. Revenue in 2024 was $1.5 billion.
Trusted by the world’s leading companies to deliver crucial, innovative, and sustainable solutions, Coats provides value-adding products including apparel, accessory and footwear threads, structural footwear components, fabrics, yarns and software applications. Customer partners include companies from the apparel, footwear, automotive, telecoms, personal protection, and outdoor goods industries.
With a proud heritage dating back more than 250 years and a spirit of evolution to constantly stay ahead of changing market needs, Coats has operations across some 50 countries with a permanent workforce of more than 16,000, serving its customers worldwide.
Coats connects talent, textiles, and technology, to make a better and more sustainable world. Worldwide, there are four dedicated Coats Innovation Hubs, where experts collaborate with partners to create the materials and products of tomorrow. It participates in the UN Global Compact and is committed to validated Science Based sustainability targets for 2030 and beyond, with an aspiration of achieving net-zero by 2050. Coats is also committed to achieving its goals in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, workplace health & safety, employee & community wellbeing, and supplier social performance.
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.