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‘Our town is making jeans again’: meet the firm reviving jobs and skills in Wales
UK NewsBusiness•October 10, 2026 at 12:00 PMNational

‘Our town is making jeans again’: meet the firm reviving jobs and skills in Wales

By Joanna Partridge in Cardigan•The Guardian - UK News

In the first article in a series on high end British manufacturing, we visit the Hiut Denim factory in CardiganWorn on the streets of London’s Soho, San Francisco or Sydney, every pair of high-end jeans made by Hiut Denim comes from the rather unlikely location of a small coastal town in west Wales.Cardigan, with a population of just 4,200, has a proud history of denim production and was once home to Britain’s largest jeans factory, even if the town’s name recalls a different garment entirely. Continue reading...

In the first article in a series on high end British manufacturing, we visit the Hiut Denim factory in Cardigan

Worn on the streets of London’s Soho, San Francisco or Sydney, every pair of high-end jeans made by Hiut Denim comes from the rather unlikely location of a small coastal town in west Wales.

Cardigan, with a population of just 4,200, has a proud history of denim production and was once home to Britain’s largest jeans factory, even if the town’s name recalls a different garment entirely.

Continue reading...