Company Background

Simon Jersey providing clothes for people to work in.

Simon Jersey are proud to be the UK's, leading corporate and work wear specialist, supplying uniforms to businesses and industries worldwide.

What employees wear speaks volumes about a business.

We work closely with our customers to help differentiate their business and build their brand through first-class, design-led clothing solutions. Our list of corporate clients includes: Avis, Hertz, P&O Cruises, Dollard & Aitchison the Opticians and Emirates Airline.

Based in the former mill town of Accrington, Lancashire, Simon Jersey Ltd was founded by Simon Moyle in 1971. Simon set up the company after being approached by a local pub to design their staff uniform. Using experience gained from his ten fashion retail outlets, he began to design a more attractive range of work wear, with a vision to challenge the perception that uniforms should be functional cover-ups.

Today, Simon Jersey is a global specialist in the design, manufacture and distribution of clothes for people to work in, supplying more than 2.8 million garments each year.

We now employ over 160 people at our award-winning, specially commissioned head quarters and serve around 50,000 customers each year. With a UK based call centre, distributors in 25 countries and worldwide delivery, Simon Jersey is a truly international success story, with annual sales in excess of £20m.

In 2002, Simon Jersey became part of Mercatura Holding GmbH & Co K, leading European textile and mail-order specialist- part of the Quelle group of retail and mail-order companies. The Simon Jersey brand complimented this portfolio perfectly, creating a major pan-European service wear supplier.

In 2007 S Kwintet AB Europes leading provider of professional clothing acquired the Mercatura group, the acquisition brings together two highly complementary businesses. Kwintet is unrivalled in work wear for craftsmen and industry workers; whereas the Mercatura Group, with revenues exceeding £130m and 1,050 employees, is particularly strong in the attractive service wear sector; clothing for professionals in healthcare, retail and hotels, restaurants and other service professions.

Following a strategic review, in January 2011 the Kwintet Group changed the way the business was structured to form five geographical regions supported by central functions such as Finance, IT, Supply Chain and Marketing to provide combined strength, stability, scale and best practice, with local knowledge and flexibility to respond to local market needs and maximising our value proposition to our customers. Simon Jersey is one of the brands, alongside Bragard, Weenas, Pioner, Kansas, Fristads and B&C which forms the Kwintet UK & International region with headquarters based in Kwintet House, Altham.

Our Award Winning Building

Simon Jersey moved to state-of-the-art premises in 1990 and has created a reputation, and a home in one of the most contemporary buildings of its generation. Through the years we have progressed in size, location and technology to the building of today which can be seen below. Cutting edge, mixed with functionality, gives the business a fantastic-working platform for years to come and is now home to Kwintet UK & International.

Royal Institute of British Architects Regional Award 1999

Our building was purpose built and designed specifically for Simon Jersey and we moved into it in 1990. It won the Royal Institute of British Architects Regional Award in 1999 for its progressive, cutting edge design coupled with functionality.