RESHORING CASE

Tom Davies

Company details
Company name: 
TD Tom Davies Ltd
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C32 - Other manufacturing
Sub-sectors: 
C32.5 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
27/08/2017
Starting implementation date: 
January, 2017
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location of affected unit(s): 
Brentford
Location code: 
UKI
Reshored business function: 
Production
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Reasons for reshoring: 
"Made in" effect
Change in total costs of sourcing
Case narrative: 

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: 

Financial times 27/08/2017

The telegraph 01/02/2018

Citya.m. 02/07/2018

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
China
Offshored business function: 
Production
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Reason for offshoring: 
Costs reduction
Host country geographical area: 
China