Design-led fashion house with vertical manufacturing and homeware curation
Margaret Howell is a privately held fashion and homeware company operating over 100 retail locations across Europe and Asia, with in-house manufacturing in North London since 1999. The tech stack is enterprise-grade but traditional—SAP, SQL Server, Power BI—reflecting a supply-chain and operations-focused business rather than a digital-native one. Active hiring is concentrated in sales (5 roles) with lighter product and ops needs, paired with visible internal friction around critical-path coordination and sample-delivery timelines, suggesting operational scaling challenges outpace current tools.
Margaret Howell designs and manufactures menswear, womenswear, and homeware products, with a secondary MHL workwear label launched in 2003. The company operates a curated retail network across London, Paris, Florence, and Japan, alongside a flagship store and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street in London. Production spans in-house shirt and nightwear manufacturing in North London and specialist factories across the UK and Italy. The homeware collection includes partnerships with established British makers and designers (Poole Pottery, Ercol, Anglepoise, Robert Welch, David Mellor). Founded in 1970 and incorporated in 1987, the company remains privately held with 51–200 employees based in the UK.
SAP Business One for core ERP, Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) for collaboration, SQL Server for data, Power BI for reporting, Cisco Meraki for networking, and Windows/macOS endpoints.
Active projects include sustainability initiatives, sustainable raw material sourcing, product traceability, system upgrades, mainline collection development, and critical-path coordination—with noted challenges in meeting deadlines and ensuring timely sample delivery.
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