RESHORING CASE

Patrona Luggage

Company details
Code: 
PatronaL
Company name: 
Patrona Luggage
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Number of employees: 
10
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
Sub-sectors: 
C14.1.9 - Manufacture of other wearing apparel and accessories
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
12/11/2014
Starting implementation date: 
January, 2014
End of Implementation : 
November, 2014
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location of affected unit(s): 
New Milton
Location code: 
UKJ32
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Total
Reasons for reshoring: 
Delivery time
Government support to relocation
Poor quality of offshored production
Case narrative: 

Patrona Luggage is a relatively new British company that mainly produces the "Shirt Shuttle", a specially designed case for transporting shirts.
The company has received a grant from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) in order to relocate the production to Hampshire from China.
According to the news, there have been a number of quality issues with its Asian partner. Andrew Brundan, managing director and founder, claims that aside from the quality and speed of production, there can also be a significant cost advantage to manufacturing in the UK.

The company also claims that the support available from MAS is a real encouragement for companies to take the first step in re-shoring and will help UK manufacturers to have more confidence to compete in the global market.

Sources: 

Daily Echo Reporter, 12/11/2014

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
China
Offshored business function: 
Production
Offshoring governance mode: 
Third party (external suppliers)