THE HISTORY OF OUR COMPANY

100+ and going strong!

On 27 January 1900 the Rossendale Steam Laundry Company was founded, later to become the Rossendale Combining Company (RCC), and on 27 January 2000 Companies House presented RCC with its very own Centenary Certificate No. 64884.

Rossendale Combining became an integral part of the footwear industry that developed in the Rossendale Valley, an industry employing over 50,000 at its peak. Providing a commission laminating and coating service RCC grew alongside the merchant converters, establishing the link between raw material sourcing and footwear manufacture.

In 1989 RCC was acquired by British Vita in a strategic move that strengthened the ties between RCC and its supply chain; ties that continue to this day. As a business RCC has had to adapt to the changing economic climate focusing on technical developments as the footwear and traditional textile industries, under attack from the import of cheaper finished articles throughout the nineties, went into rapid decline.

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