Umbro
Sign in to saveUmbro is a British sports equipment manufacturer founded in 1924 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and based in Manchester. They specialise in football and rugby sportswear featuring their "double diamond" logo. Umbro products are sold in over 100 countries.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Umbro
- Company.logo
- Umbro 2024 logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.trading_name
- Umbro
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.founded
- in Wilmslow, England
- Company.founder
- Harold & Wallace Humphreys
- Company.location
- Manchester, England
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Anthony Little
- Company.industry
- SportsTextile
- Company.products
- Footballs, football kits, goalkeeper gloves, boots, sportswear, rugby kit
- Company.parent
- Iconix Brand Group
- Company.num_employees
- 4
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Umbro is a British sports equipment manufacturer founded in 1924 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and based in Manchester. They specialise in football and rugby sportswear featuring their "double diamond" logo. Umbro products are sold in over 100 countries.
The business was started by brothers Harold and Wallace Humphreys. The name is a portmanteau of um, from Humphreys, and bro from brothers.
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