We innovate for the champions of athletic culture and lifestyle.
Learn about our company’s purpose, leadership, history, and partnerships with some of the world’s most progressive brands.
Quick facts
- 1977
Year founded - C. H. Hung
Founder and Chairman - 16,000+
Employees worldwide - 991 Million
Revenue 2023 (USD$) - 19
Factories and R&D centers - 2001
Listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange
Redefining activewear. Over 45 years of material and garment innovation.
About Eclat
Our purpose is to bring new ideas that inspire and endure to the world. And to promote health and well-being. Eclat designs, engineers, and manufactures athletic knitwear materials and garments. We want to be the preferred global partner for material technology and garment solutions.
We’ve spent over four decades shaping the world’s most progressive brands. As a leading technology provider, our partners turn to us for their most demanding developments in sports and athletics, fashion and yoga, and the health industry.
Eclat is known for great customer services, vertical integration, production capacity, R&D persistence, and extensive material collection and garment design capabilities. Additionally, we are actively working towards ambitious sustainability goals to reduce our carbon footprint.
Champions move culture forward
We believe our customers are champions of culture. They are bold and aspiring market leaders with unparalleled vision and commitment to driving growth in new markets with innovative products and sustainable solutions at scale.
Eclat was founded in 1977 by four founders with an eye toward the possibilities of comfortable stretch materials. Today, our global network comprises certified garment and knitting factories, an R&D center, and labs with over 16,000 people operating across Asia.
Eclat Leadership
Our Purpose
Our Purpose
Innovate for the champions of athletic culture and lifestyle.
Our purpose underpins our decisions as an organization: to bring new ideas that inspire and endure to the world. And to promote health and wellbeing.
Our Vision
Our Vision
Be an inspiration.
To be the preferred global partner for material technology and garment innovation, we have to recognize and address the challenges in our industry, from environmental to giving people a place to grow and delivering great products and services. Our vision reflects our six principles: inspire creativity, excellence, kindness, curiosity, responsibility, and effort.
We look ahead as a global company to inspire the world, generate value, and lead responsibly with a culture dedicated to creativity and the highest quality products.
A history of innovation
History
1977
Eclat was founded. We began trading fabrics and OEM business with four members of staff.
1979
Founding of Everbright, Eclat’s strategic alliance garment factory.
1983
We start to develop and produce stretchable knitted materials.
1988
Eclat builds a factory in Miaoli, Taiwan.
1991
Construction of a factory in Wuku. Introduction of automated production system. Strategic alliance with LA garment factory. Sales revenues put Eclat in the top 500 manufacturing companies in Taiwan.
1992
Business Contact Center established in Hong Kong.
1993
Eclat is honored with DuPont’s Q Mark, for quality and manufacturing capacity. We are the first in the Asia-Pacific authorized to produce Lycra®.
1994
Development of Eclon® nylon yarn and material. Strategic alliance with Bi-long dyeing and finishing factory.
1996
Expands factory in Miaoli, Taiwan. Opens offices in Hong Kong and New York. Merger with Everbright public stock offering.
1998
Eclat builds XiZhou fabric mill. Eclat invests in WuXi China garment factory.
2000
Invests in Bi-long dyeing and finishing factory for expansion. XiZhou fabric mill certified for ISO 14001 environmental management. Eclat is recognized as an enterprise with excellent labor relations.
2001
Eclat IPO. Listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange.
2003
Eclat sets up TingHong company to expand business in China and gather market insight. We also invested in WuXi Unison Company in China to increase production capacity.
2004
Eclat introduces ERP systems and expands global presence. Eclat invests in a garment factory in Vietnam.
2005
Certified for organic cotton production by the Control Union Sustainable Textile and Organic Exchange.
2006
Eclat Textile (Vietnam) is built and begins garment production. Certified by IMO GOTS for organic cotton production. Sales revenues up 100% since 2003.
2007
Certified by OEKO-TEX®.
2008
Eclat builds new fabric mill in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2010
Eclat acquires Colltex garment factory.
2011
Certified by Bluesign®.
2012
Recognized for Outstanding International Trade Business by the Bureau of Foreign Trade. Eclat receives the International Trade Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
2013
Eclat Taiwan fabric mills convert to 100% natural gas.
2014
Eclat placed in the Industrial Development Bureau’s 2013 Top 20 Most Innovative Taiwan Companies.
2015
Eclat Vietnam fabric mills converts to 100% natural gas, reducing CO2 emissions by 60%.
2016
Installation of solar panels in our fabric mills in Taiwan and Vietnam. Eclat wins the Sports Administration’s 2016 Taiwan Sports Company of the Year award.
2017
Eclat ranked 7th in Nikkei’s Asia300 Power Performers: Top 100.
2018
Taiwan iSport Enterprise Certification. We are awarded the Taiwan iSport Enterprise Certification by the Sport Department of the Ministry of Education.
2019
Cheng-Hai Hung, Founder & Chairman of Eclat wins the 17th Chinese Leaders Global Views Summit Conference – Global Views Outstanding Leader Award.
2020
Eclat is honored with the Emerging Market Contribution Award of Excellent Trading Businesses Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Eclat is nominated by FTSE Russell of FTSE4Good.
2022
Opening of Eclat new headquarters, Taipei.
Onwards
Eclat’s journey and commitments to sustainability, creativity, and innovation continue for cultures & lifestyles to come.
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