Finland Clothing Industry

Time to learn about the fashion industry in Finland. If you know of other clothing factories from Finland that are not listed on this page, please let us know — we would like to add them to this page.

Finland is a country in Northern Europe, and Tampere, the city in the listing below, is one of its major inland cities. The one listing on this page is a Tampere manufacturer, EDW-TRADING OY, and its entry is built around a single specialism: team jackets. The company describes itself as specialists in all kinds of team jackets, for ladies and men, which places its main product in outerwear — garments made to be worn as a set by a group, team or organisation, and ordered in matching styles rather than as one-off pieces. Alongside that specialism sits a second product line under the company's own name: EDW-Trading also has its own labels [dab] for leather jackets, sold through www.dab.fi, so the same business both makes jackets for other buyers and puts leather jackets out under a label of its own.

Flexibility and speed are the other qualities the listing puts forward. The company is flexible and can move fast, it is looking for new markets around the world, and it can offer two things to buyers beyond its own garments: production capacity, for buyers who need garments made, and design help, for buyers who need support in developing what is to be made. The range it can offer runs beyond jackets to many kinds of garments, including girls and men's trousers, casual shirts and jackets. That range is also how the entry is classified, under three manufacturer headings: outerwear manufacturer for team jackets, pant manufacturer, and shirt manufacturer. A buyer reading this directory therefore starts with one clear contact in Tampere, set out in the listing below.

Finland Fashion Industry Companies

Listings are given with the descriptions supplied for each business.

Learning More About Finnish Fashion

Team jackets explain much of the shape of this listing. A team jacket order is usually a coordinated order: the same jacket style in a run of sizes, for ladies and men, often repeated when a group needs more. A maker who specialises in that work, and who can move fast, is set up for exactly that pattern of ordering. The leather jackets under the [dab] label are a different kind of work again — leather is a heavier, less forgiving material than the fabrics used for trousers and casual shirts, so a company offering leather jackets under its own label alongside team jackets, trousers and casual shirts is covering both specialist outerwear and everyday garments. The offer of production capacity and design help for buyers widens the entry further: EDW-Trading is not only selling garments it has already designed, it is also offering to make garments for buyers and to help with the design of those garments.

Tampere is the base for all of it. The address given is Pyynikintie 25, Y14, FI-33230 Tampere, Finland, and the contact is the owner, Markko Sotisaari, by email at ms@dab.fi. Buyers can also reach the company through its two web addresses, www.edw-teamjacket.fi, which takes its name from the team jacket specialism, and www.dab.fi, which takes its name from the leather jacket label. For wider information about business in Finland, this directory also points readers to the Finland Chamber of Commerce. Readers who would like to read Apparel Search in the Finnish language can try our translator page. Finland's nearest neighbours in this directory include Estonia, across the Gulf of Finland to the south, and Sweden to the west.