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 Free Luggage Free Luggage Free is a shipping company specializing in worldwide baggage shipping. Founded in 2001 and launched in 2003, Luggage Free was created in response to new federal regulations requiring all bags to be thoroughly inspected at airports and mounting customer dissatisfaction with commercial airline baggage handling. The number of bags the company ships doubled each year from 2004 to 2007, with shipments reaching around 40,000 in 2007. As the global economy sputtered in 2008, with fewer people traveling and relying more heavily on carry-on luggage, Luggage Free’s growth slowed. With the economy, traveler numbers and baggage mishandling rates