Coats Plc

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Coats plc is the world's largest sewing thread and needlecraft supplies manufacturer, processor, and distributor, with 22,000 employees and plants in more than 65 countries while the company's products are sold in 150 countries. In 1755 James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland. In 1806 Patrick Clark invented a way of twisting cotton threads together to substitute for silk threads which were unavailable due to France's blockade of Great Britain and opened the first plant for manufacturing the cotton thread in 1812