Sadly, if you know the backstory to HebtroCo, you’ll have been lead to believe that this jeans factory was saved from closure by their ideas and production, that was complete fiction!
The manufacturing company had been going strong for years and these guys came around with an idea and asked if they could use this fictional backstory to sell the factories jeans design re-branded as HebTroCo’s own. Which they were allowed to do, solely under the provision that all the production work be given to the factory and the design remained in the factories archives.
But they went one further and decided to state that it wasn’t just the last trouser factory in Hebden Bridge, but that it was facing imminent closure due to declining orders – and that UK manufacturing in the valley was long since gone – total fiction! There are over a dozen companies in Calderdale producing clothing – always have been, always will be.
This agreement went well for just under 12 months, then these people who had professed that they were the Saviours of Calderdale decided to copy the trouser pattern that belonged to the Hebden Bridge company – making the necessary legal 5% changes to the pattern to avoid copyright theft – and took their production to another factory, which they now claim is costing them 20% more to manufacture from – but NOBODY is that stupid to believe that anyone would go elsewhere and pay more for an items production? are they?
This move left the small manufacturing unit in Hebden Bridge hanging on a promised production of 40 – 80 units a week, believing that the orders were imminent, the Hebden manufacturing company turned down work from other sources in lieu of this promised work, they waited patiently – for 2 months – but It never came, and so the factory is (and has been) on a 2 day working week for the (past and) next few months, leaving the staff in the factory out of work and struggling financially.
HebTroCo don’t seem to give a damn about the people they have left in their wake, their blase and childish comments on their social media pages about their reasons to move to another factory, and their deletions of people asking them questions as to their integrity over the Hebden Bridge manufacturer? leading to people being blocked from commenting,
‘profits over principles’ seems to be the order of the day, and over the past 12 months they have slowly but surely chipped away at their own principles and backstory to a point of complete annihilation of their original ethos.
Within months, the local company Brisbane Moss who supplied them with British dyed cloth were binned off in favour of cheaper imported cloth from Germany. Now the manufacturing company who were in a strong position before these jokers came along is in a bit of a crisis due to being hit with fickle promises and lies.
OUR ETHOS:
In 2016 this Hebden Bridge manufacturing unit stepped in and helped me out big time after the 2015 floods,
We as a manufacturing company lost over £130’000 in machinery and goods in those floods, fell foul of the insurance companies refusal to pay (we weren’t alone over 4000 other companies and individuals in the valley suffered the same fate) knowing this, the factories owners allowed me full access to their machinery and premises to get our production back up and running again, without this companies offer of help, we wouldn’t have pulled ourselves back so quickly from what seemed to be imminent forced closure.
I don’t forget the hand of kindness that is offered from relative strangers, So its time for me to try and do something for them, in their time of need.
I am planning on having a few hundred pairs of these jeans produced by this Hebden Bridge manufacturing company, investing my own money into this project to see if I can get at least one days additional work a week for the foreseeable, for their staff.
I’m selling these trousers at one third less than HebTroCo – as a loss leader to try to keep the orders coming in for the Hebden Bridge Factory.
If I can sell the 80 pairs (I’ve already had produced) quickly, I’ll start placing weekly orders with them and hopefully, this should tide them over until their winter orders kick in.
HebTroCo sell their jeans at £110 a pair, and charge £10 for having the hems turned up to your measurements, these same styled and same cut jeans I’m offering are just 75.00 a pair….. British Made by the same hands that made theirs, and I’ll match exactly the same guarantee that HebTroCo offer,
I could sell them for more, but this is not about profit, after production costs, VAT, Ebay fees etc, I’ll make less than £6 a pair on the sales of these jeans,
This is about giving everyone down the line a good deal – from the customer to the people producing the items, my priority is ensuring that the girls in Hebden Bridge are kept in full time work and not suffering financially as a result of being tossed aside by the fickle attitudes of a couple of people who evidently have little understanding of the garment industry – and who evidently don’t have a scrap of loyalty in their bones!
Buying these jeans from here is helping a small hard working community keep their heads above water, not filling the coffers of a greedy individual.
Ouch!
