In 2009 Deborah Meaden, the successful business woman best known for her appearances on the BBC programme 'Dragons' Den', and her long standing friend and textile expert, Douglas Cordeaux, took ownership of the business. To ensure that Fox Brothers delivers excellence in customer service, as well as the very finest cloth, their first priority was to put a strengthened management team in place, headed by Douglas Cordeaux, Managing Director.
From initial customer contact, through design and sample production, to the final cloth run, Fox Brothers will ensure you get the fabric that you require. In addition to a capable and respected management team, the company also boasts a highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce. Many of the existing employees having followed their fathers and grandfathers into the company; one employee is the fourth generation to work for Fox Brothers. An apprenticeship scheme is being introduced to ensure that the traditional skills required for the making of fine woollen cloth, are passed down to the next generation.
Under Deborah and Douglas' stewardship, the company remains committed to supplying the very finest woollen cloth, entirely made in England, to the world's most discerning clients.
Business woman and investor Deborah Meaden grew up in Somerset and lives just a few miles from the Fox Brothers mill. Deborah is not involved in the day-to-day operation of the company, concentrating instead on longer term business strategy. She is passionate about protecting Fox's treasured heritage however and is keen to invest in new machinery and premises, whilst maintaining the very highest product standards and retaining Fox's Somerset-based manufacturing heritage.
Douglas Cordeaux began his career in textiles at the Chelsea School of Art in the 1980's and has since been a design consultant and textile advisor to a range of brands. A passionate advocate and champion of products that are genuinely 'Made in England', Douglas happens to be the descendent of a Huguenot family of silk weavers who operated from Spitalfields Market in London.
As joint shareholder and Managing Director of Fox Brothers, Douglas brings modern business skills and expert textile knowledge to the company. He works alongside the existing team at the mill on a day-to-day basis, whilst also working with Deborah on the company's longer term growth and business strategy.
"Many of the existing employees have followed their fathers and grandfathers into the company."
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