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Coats Group plc
World's largest supplier of industrial sewing thread to the apparel and footwear industries; ~25% global market share. $1.5B revenue (2024); 70+ manufacturing locations globally. Recycled thread revenues grew 144% YoY to $405M in 2024. Also supplies performance materials for other industrial applications.
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Coats Group Ahmedabad Thread Mill →
INAhmedabad, Gujarat · industrial sewing thread manufacturing
One of Coats' significant South Asia production hubs; India is a key manufacturing base for thread serving South and Southeast Asian garment clusters (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam). Coats operates 70+ facilities globally; South Asia accounts for a major share of output feeding the Bangladesh RMG sector.
Coats Huamantla Manufacturing Facility (Mexico) →
MXHuamantla, Tlaxcala · textile_mill
New Coats Performance Materials facility; serves automotive/household/recreation thread markets for North American supply chains. Part of Coats' Americas footprint serving US-Mexico garment and automotive manufacturing clusters.
Coats India Bangalore Manufacturing →
INBangalore, Karnataka · textile_mill
Coats India primary manufacturing facility; serves the Indian garment export sector and domestic market. India is one of Coats' largest regional markets given India's substantial apparel manufacturing base.
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Apparel and Footwear Thread (World #1)
70%Performance Materials
20%Digital Solutions
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Did you know2023
In 2007, the European Commission fined Coats Group €122.4 million for participating in a price-fixing cartel with YKK and Prym in the European market for zippers and 'haberdashery notions' (buttons, snaps, fasteners). Coats was specifically found guilty of fixing zipper prices and market sharing with YKK — the world's dominant zipper manufacturer. In July 2023, Coats sold its entire European Zips (Opti) operation to Aequita, a Munich-based family office, for effectively $1 million (net of debt). The world's largest industrial thread company: (1) was a convicted zipper cartel member alongside YKK, (2) received the largest fine in EU competition history for haberdashery at the time, and (3) then exited zippers entirely for approximately 1/122nd of its fine amount.
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