David Rigby Associates

Founded in 1979 by David Rigby, David Rigby Associates (DRA) has developed a reputation as one of the most authoritative advisors on issues of strategy and marketing to the world textile industry and its suppliers. DRA is a textile specialist working world-wide across all product sectors; intermediates, fibres, fabrics, knitwear and garments, household textiles, furnishings and carpets, technical textiles and nonwovens. We have two consulting groups organised around our two main types of service.

DRA Textile Business Consulting: combines extensive industry knowledge and powerful consulting techniques to help clients in the world fibre, textile and clothing industries to produce winning strategies.

DRA Textile Market Research: helps companies in the world's fibre, textile and clothing industries make more informed decisions and improve their overall business performance through a better understanding of the markets in which they operate.

DRA has a unique breadth of experience across all sectors of the textile industry and its supply chains and has built up an extensive in-house library and database.

Our knowledge of products, markets and technologies combined with our understanding of business models and management techniques enables us to focus quickly on the key issues for a particular client. Our downstream experience, which extends into retailing, gives us a market-based perspective which is of particular value to manufacturing companies upstream.