Hawkes (1771) and Gieve & Co (1785) merged as Gieves & Hawkes in 1974, at 1 Savile Row since 1912 — tailor to the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Family. Bespoke remains genuinely made on the Row; RTW manufacturing is more mixed.

Britain's longest-running electric guitar maker, building punk-born, workhorse guitars by hand from raw timber in a Northamptonshire workshop since 1974.

Design-led Glasgow watches and clocks inspired by art and architecture, founded by three sisters in 2013 and now part of anOrdain.

Terry Dolan learned his trade in the Mersey shipyards before founding his Liverpool brand in 1980. Now based in Ormskirk, Lancashire, Dolan designs and builds its steel frames by hand — genuine craft credentials in an age of mass production, with real Mersey DNA.

Founded in London in 2000 and relaunched in 2025 under new ownership, Mantis is an independent racket sports brand for the dedicated amateur — precision tennis and padel racquets, balls and apparel built around a philosophy of progress over marketing hype. Developed in the UK and designed jointly with a New York studio, though every product is currently made in Taiwan, Thailand and China.

Joseph Price began making rubber sports balls in Box, Wiltshire in 1936; today his company is the only tennis, squash and racketball manufacturer left in the UK and Europe — rare British manufacturing that survived global commoditisation by going niche and bespoke.

Victoria Lee turned a love of home fragrance into a brand, hand-pouring candles, diffusers and soaps in small batches in a workshop behind her shop in Bingley, West Yorkshire.

Founded in Manchester in 2011, Ajoto began with a single beautifully engineered pen and has built a reputation for precision and material honesty in the tradition of great British industrial craft. Still considered one of the finest everyday writing instruments made in Britain.

Family-owned and fiercely independent, Aero Leather Clothing has been hand-building leather jackets in Galashiels, Scottish Borders since the 1970s. Every jacket is cut, sewn and finished in the same workshop — the same horsehide, the same techniques, the same commitment to permanence.

Andrew Ritchie invented the Brompton folding bicycle in west London in the late 1970s, and every bike is still built by hand in Greenford — brazing, folding, testing — before reaching riders in over 40 countries. The world's best-known folding bike, made in London.

Founded in 2018 through a British-Swedish partnership, AERA Instruments brings a tool-watch aesthetic rooted in aviation and engineering to a new generation of watch buyers. Designed in the UK, with an eye for precision instrument dials that recall Britain's great aerospace heritage. Clean and purposeful.

Stella McCartney founded her luxury fashion house in London in 2001 with an unusual conviction: that great style and ethical production are completely compatible. Designed in Britain and committed to never using leather or fur, she helped write the rules for sustainable luxury long before it was fashionable.

David Reiss opened his first Bishopsgate menswear shop in 1971, building a label in the Massimo Dutti / COS bracket. Designed in London; manufacturing runs through a standard global high-street supply chain, majority-owned by Next plc since 2022.

Simon Mottram and Luke Scheybeler founded Rapha in London in 2004, setting the standard for the modern cycling aesthetic. Designed in Britain; manufactured across a 15-country supplier network and owned by the Walton family (US) since 2017.

Former QPR footballer Michael Doughty founded this London running-shoe brand in 2020, building trainers from bio-based, compostable materials. Designed in Hackney; manufacturing location undisclosed.

Models from the inclusive fashion platform London Represents started making their own vegan skincare in 2011 after growing tired of formulations that weren't made for them. London Organic Beauty says every batch is still hand-made in Britain, in UV-blocking glass packaging.

Sarah Turner wondered why so little of Britain's own wool ends up in British homes, and started making sheep-shaped dryer balls to answer her own question. Little Beau Sheep still hand-makes its wool laundry and body care in Yorkshire, sourced directly from British farms.

Romy Fraser left teaching to open a Covent Garden apothecary in 1981; the Kindersley family later built her business a purpose-built eco-factory in Dorset. Neal's Yard Remedies still makes its organic remedies and skincare there today, as the first company ever certified by the Soil Association.

Warren Booth and chef Marcus Doyle started making soap 'cupcakes' from a £500 stake and borrowed cake tins in a Hebden Bridge gift shop in 2004. The Yorkshire Soap Company still hand-makes every bar in its own Yorkshire kitchen — good enough that Prince Charles once dropped by.

William Penhaligon perfumed Queen Victoria's court from a Jermyn Street barbershop in the 1870s, and the brand still trades on that very British history from Covent Garden. But since Spanish group Puig bought it in 2015, the fragrances themselves are made in Spain and France, not Britain.

Three ex-Aquascutum staff started Drake's in 1977 making scarves; it's now a Queen's Award-winning haberdasher owned by its lead designer and The Armoury's Mark Cho. Ties are still handmade on Haberdasher Street in East London, shirts at a Somerset factory Drake's bought outright in 2013.

Mrs Elliot invented the quilted horse rug in Lavenham in 1969 because wool ones took too long to dry. Diamond-quilted jackets followed in 1972, and 102 artisans still quilt, cut and finish every one in the same Suffolk factory today.

Two chemists, John Farrow and Richard Ball, started mixing paint in Wimborne in 1946. Now owned by Danish group Hempel after three changes of private-equity hands, the famously named colours — Elephant's Breath included — are still made at the same Dorset factory.

Two Robs, fed up with how wasteful redecorating a house was, started mixing paint by hand from a rented Surrey unit in 2020. COAT now makes every tin to order in Clerkenwell and takes the empties back to recycle — the UK's first B Corp certified paint company.

Four generations of the Draper family have hand-made sheepskin slippers and boots in Glastonbury since 1937, on a site where leather has been worked since 1886. Each pair still takes around four weeks.

Pure started in 2001 as a Hertfordshire chip company's way of showing off its DAB tuner, and its £99 Evoke-1 went on to make digital radio mainstream in the UK. Austrian-owned since 2016, it still designs its radios and speakers in Kings Langley, but they are made in China.

Jacques Cockell used the 2021 lockdown to rethink toothpaste, launching a hydroxyapatite enamel-whitening paste from Covent Garden. ZING says it's made in Yorkshire, though it doesn't name the factory.

Leeds menswear label founded by Vik Tailor in 2010, designing premium but accessible everyday clothing built around fabric, fit and function.

Sofa.com founder Rohan Blacker's new London sofa brand, launched in 2025 with natural, foam-free sofas at fair prices. Designed in London, but the sofas themselves are built by upholsterers in Poland.

Since the early 1970s, Margaret Howell has championed understated British style rooted in natural fabrics and honest construction. Her shirts are still made at her own Edmonton factory in north London — a quiet, sustained commitment to keeping British craft alive.

A London-born vegan sneaker brand with a genuine conscience, LØCI makes every pair from recycled ocean plastic, bio-leather and corn-waste blends. Designed in Britain and backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, it proves sustainability and style are entirely compatible.

Rooted in British motorsport since 1913, Aston Martin crafts grand tourers at its Gaydon studio in Warwickshire and assembles them in Warwickshire and Wales. Its James Bond association endures, but the cars speak for themselves — some of the most beautiful made anywhere.

Starting with a 3×3 metre room in Nottingham in 1970, Sir Paul Smith built one of the world's most beloved fashion houses on the unlikely alchemy of classic tailoring and playful wit. More than 50 years on, his design studio remains in Nottingham.

Thomas Burberry was 21 when he opened a drapery in Basingstoke in 1856 — within a decade he'd invented gabardine, a breathable waterproof fabric that changed clothing forever. The trench coat he developed is still made in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Few British brands carry more cultural weight.

The duffle coat found its most devoted British champion in Gloverall, the Cricklewood-born label selling its signature toggle-fastened outerwear since 1951. A core range is still made in Birmingham — proof that the best ideas need no improving.

Henry has been grinning from British utility rooms since 1975, when Numatic introduced the world's friendliest vacuum cleaner. Designed and built in Chard, Somerset, the red cylinder is a fixture of domestic and commercial life — simple, reliable and endlessly cheerful.

Italian-born Lucian Ercolani founded his furniture company in High Wycombe in 1920, making honest, beautiful pieces from British elm and beech. His mid-century Windsor chair designs are modern classics, still made at Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire over a century later.

Brothers Nick and Giles English founded Bremont in Henley-on-Thames in 2002 to re-establish British watchmaking as a serious force. Designed and assembled in Oxfordshire, each timepiece combines aviator heritage with engineering precision — sometimes incorporating materials from WWII aircraft or Royal Navy submarines.

The world's oldest continuously operating knitwear factory was founded in 1784 at Lea Mills, Derbyshire, and John Smedley has been producing fine-gauge knitwear in the same valley ever since. Their Sea Island cotton and Merino wool garments are benchmarks — the softest hand, the longest life.

Belstaff began in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent in 1924, making waterproof motorcycle gear for adventurers and racers. The Trialmaster jacket became an icon worn by Steve McQueen and Che Guevara. A small Made-in-UK capsule has been revived, reclaiming the brand's British manufacturing roots.

No figure in British fashion has been more provocative or more consequential than Vivienne Westwood, who turned a Chelsea boutique into a platform for punk, protest and extraordinary craft. From her first SEX shop at 430 King's Road in 1971, she drew on British tailoring while gleefully dismantling its conventions.

Britain's longest-running family-built sports car company, Morgan has been making cars in Malvern Link, Worcestershire since 1909. Hand-formed aluminium bodies, ash frames and bespoke interiors are assembled by craftspeople who take pride in a slow, deliberate process — the antithesis of mass production.

Founded in 1939 as a specialist rust treatment brand, JENOLITE has spent over 80 years helping Britain rescue metal from corrosion. Made in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, its rust inhibitors, primers and paints are the trusted choice of restorers, engineers and maintenance professionals. Unpretentious and effective.

Church's has been making shoes in Northampton since 1873, using Goodyear welt construction to build footwear meant to last a lifetime. Over 150 years on, the Northampton factory still stands, turning out some of the finest shoes on the planet.

Brothers Tom and Phil Beahon founded Castore in Manchester in 2015 with a simple but ambitious idea: to make premium performance sportswear on a par with the very best. They've since signed partnerships with F1 teams, Premier League clubs and international sporting bodies.

Italian-born Lucian Ercolani founded his furniture company in High Wycombe in 1920, making honest, beautiful pieces from British elm and beech. His mid-century Windsor chair designs are modern classics, still made at Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire over a century later.

The four Walklett brothers launched Ginetta in 1958 and created Britain's most enduring racing car. From club racers to Le Mans prototypes, every car is designed and built in Garforth, near Leeds — keeping British motorsport manufacturing alive in West Yorkshire.

Founded in Manchester in 2011, Ajoto began with a single beautifully engineered pen and has built a reputation for precision and material honesty in the tradition of great British industrial craft. Still considered one of the finest everyday writing instruments made in Britain.

John Barbour founded this South Shields institution in 1894, selling oilskins to north-east fishermen. His waxed-cotton jacket became an enduring British icon — worn by countryfolk, surfers and royalty — with much of the range still made at the Simonside factory in Tyne and Wear.

One of Britain's oldest sporting goods brands, Mitre was founded as a tannery in Huddersfield in 1817 before becoming a specialist in footballs and sports equipment. Supplying professional football for nearly two centuries, its British sporting heritage is almost unrivalled.

Iconic British luxury car maker founded in 1922, Jaguar is now undergoing its most dramatic reinvention as a fully electric brand under JLR. Engineering at Whitley, Coventry and design at Gaydon remain resolutely British, with UK manufacturing planned from 2026. A storied name stepping boldly into an electric future.

The most famous meeting in British motoring history took place in Manchester in 1904, when engineer Henry Royce met aviator Charles Rolls. Every car is now bespoke-built at the House of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood, West Sussex — one of Britain's most extraordinary luxury manufacturers.

W.O. Bentley founded his company in London in 1919 with a dream of building fast cars of surpassing quality. The Crewe factory has been home to Bentley since 1946, producing some of the most opulent and powerful cars on the road. Britain's grand touring benchmark.

Husband-and-wife team Lucy and Graeme Uren founded Rowen & Wren in Somerset in 2011, working with British artisans — upholsterers, potters, mirror-makers — to offer furniture and accessories with genuine craft behind them. A modern British interiors label with strong roots.

Two Derbyshire joiners set up their workshop in the Peak District in 2014 with one straightforward ambition: to make things properly. Built from solid hardwood in Two Dales, every piece is crafted with the kind of care that only small-batch British making allows. Furniture to be handed down.

Gola has been part of British sporting culture since it was founded in the East Midlands in 1905. Retro trainer silhouettes like the Harrier and Redford have become wardrobe staples for those who value understated British style, with a Made-in-England capsule keeping the heritage alive.

The DM boot began with an air-cushioned sole designed in post-war Germany, adopted by the Griggs family of Wollaston, Northamptonshire from 1960. It became a canvas for British subculture across decades — skinheads, punks, Britpop kids. A small Made in England line still comes from Wollaston.

The Ribble story begins on Water Lane, Preston in 1897 — a frame-building workshop on the banks of the river that gave the brand its name. Over 125 years later, road, gravel and e-bikes are still designed and assembled in Lancashire. One of the longest-standing names in British cycling.