Haines & Bonner
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Haines and Bonner is a premium quality shirt manufacturer and retailer, founded in 1865. Currently trading online through its web site Haines & Bonner, specialising in high quality fashionable shirts.
Its corporate heritage comes from the Snowdon Collar Works, which were established in Chard, Somerset
, England in 1865. Chard was in the centre of the lace and sewing trades at that time with a plentiful supply of skilled labour. It first produced the stiff collars worn by gentlemen of the time. When fashions changed the factory became shirt makers for the same London clients.
Ken Haines and David Bonner, a bespoke shirt maker and entrepreneur respectively, established a joint venture retailing fine handmade men's shirts on London's Jermyn Street
.
The business was acquired by The Baird Group in 2008.
The latest Haines and Bonner designs of fabric from Italy, Portugal, Austria and Germany are used to produce a range of shirts in two-fold and 1/50s pure cotton, in sizes ranging from 14.5" to 19.
Its corporate heritage comes from the Snowdon Collar Works, which were established in Chard, Somerset
Chard, Somerset
Chard is a town and civil parish in the Somerset county of England. It lies on the A30 road near the Devon border, south west of Yeovil. The parish has a population of approximately 12,000 and, at an elevation of , it is the southernmost and highest town in Somerset...
, England in 1865. Chard was in the centre of the lace and sewing trades at that time with a plentiful supply of skilled labour. It first produced the stiff collars worn by gentlemen of the time. When fashions changed the factory became shirt makers for the same London clients.
Ken Haines and David Bonner, a bespoke shirt maker and entrepreneur respectively, established a joint venture retailing fine handmade men's shirts on London's Jermyn Street
Jermyn Street
Jermyn Street is a street in the City of Westminster, central London, to the south, parallel and adjacent to Piccadilly.It is well known as a street where the shops are almost exclusively aimed at the Gentleman's market and is famous for its resident shirtmakers Jermyn Street is a street in the...
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The business was acquired by The Baird Group in 2008.
The latest Haines and Bonner designs of fabric from Italy, Portugal, Austria and Germany are used to produce a range of shirts in two-fold and 1/50s pure cotton, in sizes ranging from 14.5" to 19.