Samsonite Samsonite Samsonite International S.A. () is a luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, United States. Its registered office is in Luxembourg and it is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, on March 10, 1910 by Blackhawk, Colorado-born luggage salesman Jesse Shwayder (1882–1970) as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. A religious man, Shwayder named one of his initial cases Samson, after the Biblical strongman, and began using the trademark "Samsonite" in 1941 for its tapered vulcanized
Ben Kelsey (strongman) man in the under 105 kg category. He was also named Britain’s natural strongest man in 2012 and was the winner of the natural strongman world series in Canada 2012 and Dubai 2013. He continued to compete in the under 105 kg category and in 2013 retained both the England’s Strongest Man U105kg and Britain’s Strongman U105kg titles. He then went on to be named the World's Strongest Man under 105 kg. This was his last competition in the under 105 kg category before fully transferring to the main circuit. In 2013 he came second in both the UK's Strongest