British luxury knitwear brand John Smedley has appointed Jess McGuire Dudley as its new managing director, succeeding Ian Maclean, who will step into a new role with the company. McGuire Dudley, who joined the Derbyshire-based manufacturer in 2014 as head of marketing, was most recently the brand’s deputy managing director and global brand...
2 Apr 2025
British luxury knitwear brand John Smedley has launched its first diffusion line as it looks to take its 240-year history in British manufacturing and contemporary take on knitwear to a wider audience. The new ‘JS by John Smedley’ diffusion line is stocked exclusively at British department store John Lewis and offers 13 styles made in the brand’...
4 Mar 2025
British heritage brands Daks and John Smedley have unveiled a capsule knitwear collection for spring/summer 2025 as they look to champion ‘Made in England’ manufacturing. The collaboration marks the first collection between the two British luxury brands that are both steeped in history and design and follows John Smedley reopening its production...
3 Mar 2025
Family-run British knitwear maker John Smedley, which holds two Royal Warrants, has unveiled a limited-edition Cornwall sweater made exclusively in the UK using British wool. The unisex jumper has been created in partnership with The Campaign for Wool and utilises wool sourced from farming tenants of the Duchy of Cornwall Estate and the sheep...
4 Oct 2022
Knitwear brand John Smedley is launching a suite of digital activities in mainland China to drive the brand forward in what it calls “the world’s largest market”. The move will see the brand launching an e-commerce mini programme shop on WeChat, making the brand’s luxury merino wool and cotton knitwear more accessible to Chinese consumers. John...
22 Jun 2022
John Smedley, the knitwear manufacturer, has appointed Jess Mcguire-Dudley as its new deputy managing director, effective immediately. Mcguire-Dudley joined John Smedley in 2014 in the newly created role of head of marketing and within six months she had also taken on the responsibility for the design teams to become head of marketing and...
4 Mar 2022