Heritage
Haddow Group: A Potted History
In 1988, a collection of textile companies merged to establish The Haddow Group, the brainchild of Alan Haddow and a group of companies devoted to keeping clothing and textiles part of the Bradford industrial landscape for generations to come. Although the global textiles landscape has transformed beyond recognition over the last 40 years, the group maintains a strong reputation for textiles and clothing as well as its dedication to the design, manufacturing and delivery of innovative, fashion-led products to a diverse variety of brands, retailers, online influencers and beyond.
The family business continues to operate from the Lister Mills in Bradford, once the largest velvet and silk mill in the world and its history boasts the supply of velvet to both the White House and Buckingham Palace.
Today, the highly skilled UK team of Textile and Fashion Designers, Garment and Fabric Technologists, Product and Supply-chain Merchandisers and Logistics Coordinators manage the end-to-end lifecycle of our products, from conception through to delivery. The team are supported by in-country quality management experts and our Asia support hub based in Southern India.


A Global Enterprise
We manufacture across the globe, sourcing each range in the locality best suited to the make-up, speed and technicality of the textile design and trims. We form lasting partnerships with all our mills, workshops, and logistics suppliers to ensure that wherever in the world we source from, our core values of sustainability, integrity and innovation are at the forefront of everything we do. We align ourselves with our customers to strengthen and deepen our commercial understanding of their business and the challenges that they face in a forever evolving market so we can use our expertise to keep them at the forefront of textiles and fashion evolution.
The Lister Cartwright brand, established in 1889 and once the largest textiles manufacturer in the world, remains the face of our blinds, curtains, and home textiles division.
The Haddow Trademark
Kestrel is our window poles and accessories trademark, and Olivia Bard represents our premium textiles offering. Our in-house clothing brands Seaspray, Silhouette and Turtle continue to offer premium swim and nightwear ranges across ladies, men and kids sizes and can be discovered across multiple retailers.
Much of Listers Mill that once housed our weaving, dying, and finishing machines is now used for printing, production and warehousing. Our production team, although now down to a fraction of the historical workforce is responsible for the printing, sewing and make-up of our UK textiles production. Our dedicated logistics team manages the dispatch of goods worldwide, from container deliveries to individual dispatches for households across the country. We dropship customer products and make and sew individual customer products on demand from our warehouse.

Contact us
Get in touch for more information or to arrange a call with one of our Account Managers.
HEAD QUARTERS
(for sat nav, use BD9 4RY which brings you to Lister Food Stores opposite our main entrance on Heaton Road)
EMAIL US
enquiries@haddowgroup.com
OUR PHONE
01274 360400