Company Profile

Company Overview

With a rich heritage dating back to the 1750s, Coats is the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business employing 20,000 employees in over 70 countries across 6 continents around the world.
They have an unrivalled access to global markets and customers and are recognized as the market leader across many areas of operation. Almost 1 in 5 garments on the planet are held together with Coats' thread and their products are sold in over 100 countries.
Coats’ Industrial Division is three times the size of its nearest competitor in industrial thread and their Crafts Division is the number one global player in the textile crafts market.
Coats has a long heritage and has been serving customers and playing a part in communities for more than 250 years.
Coats’ well-known brands and company-wide understanding of their customers and consumers mean their products and services meet current and future needs. Coats’ strong relationships with their business partners and consumers, coupled with the deep expertise of their people, builds trust and certainty.
Coats’ pioneering history and innovative culture ensure they continue leading the way around the world providing complementary and value-added products and services to the apparel and footwear industries. Coats’ apply innovative techniques to develop technical products in new areas such as aramids, tracer threads and fiber optics.