Arnold Wills

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BORN IN UPPINGHAM Our founder Arnold Wills, started the company in 1946, seeing the opportunities in Great Britain at the time and a desire to create the country’s leading leather goods manufacturer. In 1951, he built a new factory on the Station Road site, employing 200 local craftspeople.

In the decades that followed, Arnold Wills acquired a number of other leather goods makers.

Uppingham

London

The craftsmanship and expertise that was fostered in the early years is still embedded in the culture today. Every teammate at Arnold Wills is focused on delivering the highest quality product, on time, to each customer’s specifications.

Today, Arnold Wills remains a family owned manufacturer, headed by Philippa Wills, grand daughter of our founder. We have grown into a full-fledged, trusted, and valued supplier of belts, accessories, and gifting throughout Great Britain, North American and Europe.

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CREATIVE AND SMART. At Arnold Wills we pride ourselves on having a highly creative design team, who are valued by our international retail and brand partners, for their depth of industry of knowledge and trend savvy spirit.

Focused on innovation and uniqueness, our teams travel the globe in search of emerging trends. This enables us to consistently bring fresh ideas to our customers, keeping assortments fresh, exciting and relevant.

With decades of industry experience, a deep understanding of retail and consumer trends, we strive to achieve a perfect and unique balance in every product category.

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A HERITAGE OF KNOWLEDGE. We are hugely passionate about our British manufacturing heritage.

Our team of craftsmen and women produce belts , braces, small leather goods and pet accessories, made in our factory located in the heart of the English countryside.

Our years of production expertise enables us to drive process, innovation and sustainability standards across our global supply base. The collaboration between our designers and trusted factories, is a synergy of expertise, craftsmanship and creativity.

Arnold Wills has remained competitive, sourcing through a continuous investment to uncover the very best in-class manufacturing partners. We evaluate each regions capabilities in producing belts, bags, leather goods and gifting, to meet our customers needs.

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CARING ABOUT THE FUTURE. We are a community minded business and as such we want to ensure that we make our products in factories that care about their staff and environment.

We continually review our factories to ensure they meet the social and ethical standards our retail partners expect.

The factories are annually audited to ETI base code and visited by our in house social compliance team on a regular basis.

All our production sites are signed up to the Higg index which grades their environmental impact. It asks qualitative questions to gauge environmental sustainability performance and to encourage behaviour for improvement.

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VEGAN MATERIAL INNOVATIONS DESSERTO®

Mushroom Leather In addition to being sustainable it is also water-repellent, non toxic, and durable enough to create fashion items usually made out of leather.

Wine (or Grape) Leather Vegea Company is producing this eco friendly vegan leather from wine making by-products like grape peels and seeds.

Pineapple Leather Pinatex is made from pineapple leaves a bi product of the pineapple which is often discarded or burned.

It is 100% vegan friendly and is also ethical in the sense that it gives pineapple farmers yet another source of income from their crops.

Cactus Leather Desserto is the first cactus-based leather on the market, turning nopal cactus leaves into organic, all-natural, cruelty-free leather.

This material has the potential to make the vegan leather industry much more sustainable.

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MELISSA LAWRENCE (917) 692-0558

+44 01572 822261

135 Madison Ave 5th floor N Y, N Y 1 0 0 1 6 Arnold Wills & Co Ltd. 10 Station Road, Uppingham, Rutland, LE15 9TZ, England

ARNOLDWILLS.CO.UK

Melissa.Lawrence @arnoldwills.net