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
Luggage Forward Inner City 100 is compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a nonprofit research and strategy organization founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. Luggage Forward Luggage Forward specializes in door-to-door luggage and sports equipment shipping to more than two hundred countries and territories. Luggage Forward was created in 2004 and works in partnership with Federal Express, UPS, DHL and other smaller shippers in order to provide shipping of luggage domestically and internationally. As major US airlines began introducing fees for checking bags, demand for Luggage Forward's service more than doubled. Luggage Forward has since