Tom Davies

Type
Reshoring
Country
United Kingdom
Reshoring from
China
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Wales; North Wales; Isle of Anglesey
Location of affected unit(s)
Brentford
Sector
Manufacturing
(32) Other manufacturing
32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
27 August 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date

Description

Tom Davies is a British spectacle designer who founded TD Tom Davies in 2001; the Bespoke service started in 2002, and the company shortly became one of Britain's leading Bespoke eyewear brands. Tom’s prestigious handmade eyewear products are realized with high quality materials, like natural horn, pure titanium and cotton acetate. Since the beginning, the production activity was offshored in a owned plant in China, because of the lower production costs. However, in 2017, the designer decided to relocalise the eyewear manufacturing in a new plant in Brentford (United Kingdom). Among the declared motivations, the opportunity to leverage on the "made in UK", and the reduction of the costs gap.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2017), Tom Davies, Reshoring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 43, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/43.