Lutwyche’s best business decision

Tony Lutwyche, 'London's Bespoke tailor', reveals his decision to buy a workshop transformed his company.


Tony Lutwyche, ‘London’s Bespoke tailor’, reveals his decision to buy a workshop transformed his company.

Tony Lutwyche, ‘London’s Bespoke tailor’ and managing director of Lutwyche Holdings, reveals a snap decision to buy a failing workshop transformed his company.

‘Cheshire Bespoke is a workshop making men’s suits using traditional methods and has been around since the 1930s.

In 2006, the previous company became insolvent. I went up to Crewe and made the decision that day to put the business back together. Setting up a tailoring workshop requires capital investment in machinery. I put everything on the line to ensure it happened.

While I had faith, historically there had been a decline in clothing manufacturing in the UK.

But this bucked the trend. It transformed Lutwyche from being a bespoke tailor serving a limited number of clients and built on something that England has a fabulous reputation around the world for – tailoring.’

Nick Britton

Nick Britton

Nick was the Managing Editor for growthbusiness.co.uk when it was owned by Vitesse Media, before moving on to become Head of Investment Group and Editor at What Investment and thence to Head of Intermediary...

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