Who owns Shinola Watches?
Shinola is an American lifestyle brand based in Detroit, Michigan. It produces and sells watches, bicycles, leather goods, clocks, home goods, and jewelry. The company’s headquarters and watch factory are housed within the College for Creative Studies on the fourth and fifth floors of the Alfred A. Taubman Building in Detroit, a former automotive research…
Shinola is an American lifestyle brand based in Detroit, Michigan. It produces and sells watches, bicycles, leather goods, clocks, home goods, and jewelry. The company’s headquarters and watch factory are housed within the College for Creative Studies on the fourth and fifth floors of the Alfred A. Taubman Building in Detroit, a former automotive research lab.
Shinola’s occupation of the CCS space first occurred by accident when Bedrock officials, seeking a manufacturing site after resolving to rebuild Shinola, visited the College, and the elevator unexpectedly opened on the fifth floor, which was vacant at the time.
Who owns Shinola Watches?
Tom Kartsotis is the founder of multi-billion-dollar watch company Fossil Group, the founder of brand management firm Bedrock Manufacturing Co and the founder of American luxury lifestyle brand Shinola, which specializes in watches, bicycles, and leather goods.
It was in the early 1980s that a then 24-year-old Kartsotis started making cheap fashion watches under the name Fossil. His older brother Kosta, a former Sanger-Harris executive, helped get the line into department stores. In 2003, Kartsotis founded his private equity and brand management firm, Bedrock Manufacturing Co, named after the hometown of the cartoon character Fred Flintstone.
