Maxwell Scott Bags Ltd

$3.6M Per Year Selling Luxury Italian Leather Bags

January 31st, 2019
William Forshaw
$300K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
14
Employees
Maxwell Scott Bag...
from York, England, United Kingdom
started January 2002
$300,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
14
Employees
market size
$108B
avg revenue (monthly)
$1.91M
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
content-library
best tools
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time investment
Full time
pros & cons
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tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I’m William Scott Forshaw and I am the founder and CEO of Maxwell-Scott. Maxwell-Scott is a British-born luxury leather goods company for the refined professional seeking timeless design and high-quality craftsmanship. As a brand, our ethos is to support slow fashion by creating impeccably-made leather pieces for our customers to cherish and pass on through the generations.

As such, we handcraft our products from the finest vegetable-tanned full grain leather in Tuscany. This antidote to fast fashion with a focus on workmanship and only the finest materials began when I noticed that some of the professionals that I was working with would carry a plastic bag to work every day. It was then that I noticed a gap in the market to supply corporate London clients with high-quality, functional briefcases. So, in 2002 I launched Maxwell-Scott.

Unsurprisingly our flagship product was the Paolo3 - a classic 3-section leather briefcase with an Alce cast alloy lock and detachable/adjustable shoulder strap. It remains one of our best-selling briefcases, and though it has been revamped several times, the functional design and timeless aesthetic prevail. For me,...

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