With so many choices on the market today, deciding between the best luggage brands can be a challenge. Identifying the best of anything involves personal taste and style, and so it is with luggage.
Not all luggage brands are created equal, and that’s not particularly a bad thing. Some are praised for their heritage, others for their stylish design or unbeatable price-quality ratio, some target a specific set of consumers, yet some are pioneers in redefining the way we travel. This industry is booming, with no signs of slowing down. Clearly, the world loves to travel!
But traveling should be seamless, and that starts with the right bag. If you haven’t already, invest in one that has you getting from A to B in style, adapts to your needs, and makes life on the go easier. To get you started, we have shortlisted the 5 best luggage brands available on the market right now.
Top 5 luggage brands in the world
- Delsey
- Samsonite
- Rockland
- Briggs & Riley
- American Tourister
Delsey
Delsey is a French company which manufactures luggage and travel accessories. It is based in Tremblay-en-France, in the Paris suburbs. Delsey employs 400 staff, and has a turnover of about 130 million euro. As of 2010, it held second place in the global luggage market, behind Samsonite. In early 2015, Delsey unveiled a prototype "smart suitcase" called Pluggage, containing built-in electronic gadgets which communicate with a smartphone app. Features include a weighing scale, locator beacon, wireless speaker, remote locking, and phone charger. This is similar to the competing Airbus Bag2Go and Bluesmart cases which are being developed at the same time as Delsey's product.
Samsonite
The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, on March 10, 1910 by Black Hawk, 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 fiber suitcase, introduced in 1939. In 1965 after the Samsonite suitcase became its best-selling product, the company changed its name to SAMSONITE.
Rockland
Since its inception in 1998, Rockland by Fox Luggage has been proudly producing quality luggage and bags for the style savvy traveler. Recognized for its graphic and colorful designs, Rockland prides itself on creating products influenced by current trends in design and fashion. Our products tend to turn heads in a crowd and stand out in the baggage carousel making it easy for quick exits out the airport.
Affordable and travel resistant, Rockland bags are an ideal companion for everything from quick trips to the gym to overnight getaways to extended vacations. Our selection includes: luggage sets (4 piece, 3 piece or 2 piece), hard cases, soft cases, carry ons, rolling backpacks, travel duffels, rolling duffels, cosmetic bags, and kids' backpacks
Briggs & Riley
Briggs & Riley's parent company is U.S. Luggage LLC. For nearly a century, US Luggage has been bringing innovation to the travel category, including the first wheeled luggage introduced in 1970. Under the leadership of CEO Richard Krulik, Briggs & Riley has become recognized as one of the leading manufacturers in the specialty luggage category, entering the global marketplace in 2006 and now selling in more than 27 countries worldwide.
In 2010, we celebrated 40 years of wheeled luggage, check out the article below.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/04/wheeled.luggage.anniversary/
Common sense is a Briggs & Riley mantra, with innovation, thoughtful engineering and performance as cornerstones. This is high quality luggage designed around real world needs with every piece created to make traveling easier and more efficient.
Our impact on the industry and insight into consumers’ needs goes far beyond design. When founded in 1993, Briggs & Riley revolutionized the travel industry by offering many firsts such as a no questions asked “Simple as That®” lifetime warranty, that even covers damage caused by an airline. This guarantee, like no other in the industry, is a reflection of our commitment to building lifelong relationships with customers and covers every bag that we have ever made, from 1993 through 2019 and beyond.
American Tourister
American Tourister is a brand of luggage owned by Samsonite. Brothers Sol and Irving Koffler founded American Luggage Works in Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1933. In 2009, American Tourister was acquired by Astrum International, which also owns Samsonite. Astrum was renamed as the Samsonite Corporation two years later. Their products include suitcases,
backpacks and wallets.