Samsonite

About Samsonite

Samsonite is a luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, United States. Its registered office is in Luxembourg and it is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, on March 10, 1910, by a black hawk, colorado-born luggage salesman jesse shader (1882–1970) the shoulder trunk manufacturing company. A religious man, shader named one of his initial cases Samson, after the biblical strongman, and began using the trademark Samsonite in 1941 for its tapered vulcanized fiber suitcase, introduced in 1939. In 1965, after the Samsonite suitcase became its best-selling product, the company changed its name to Samsonite. For many years the subsidiary samsonite furniture co. Made folding chairs and card tables in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.