Kagawa gloves: the love is in the glove.

The current lineup of products that bears Kagawa’s stamp include various sports gloves used by top athletes who represent a huge range of sports, from baseball, golf, skiing, snowboarding, fishing and soccer to F1 and motorbike racing, cycling, marine sports, and mountain climbing.
Two specific examples that we would like to cite are the use of our batting gloves by professional baseball players and golf gloves by professional golfers. Practically all the gloves worn by Japanese major leaguers, and nearly all players in Japanese pro baseball leagues, are created by member companies of our association, as are those worn by nearly all pro golfers from Japan. Given that the gloves worn by such pro athletes have a direct bearing on their competitive results, it is equally given that this facet results in our member companies producing the absolute pinnacle of products in every category.
Delving into this further, our member companies see to it that proper consideration is accorded to achieving not only top-level performance, but also levels of sensibility that incorporate both a sense of fit that pro athletes find satisfactory and design elements that double as an advertising medium. In order to make this come about, our member companies thoroughly analyze all conditions that that product has to meet, including those required as a glove and other incidental requirements, and apply the most advanced processes available, including those involving materials, processing technology and manufacturing equipment and devices, all the way up to the point of rendering the product into its commercial form. Additionally, perhaps more than anything else, the skill of those physically producing these gloves reflects tremendously in the gloves’ workmanship, as does the mental approach and values that these producers instill in their work. The result is that the sense of earnestness and aspiration brought to the production process by those who physically produce the gloves utilized by pro athletes is called into question, which means that only those producers that are up to task of producing such gloves are made to handle it.
Where fashionable thermal gloves are concerned, the design ability of the producer is naturally called into question. At the same time, how materials are used and combined, which is indicative of the degree of materials procurement and development that the producer is capable of, is also highly important.
The progress Kagawa has made over the last 120-plus years can be construed as a history of developing usages for gloves. Simultaneously, however, another aspect of this history is that of developing the materials that go into such gloves.
With that in mind, we continue to expand on our worldwide procurement of hugely diverse materials from the dual aspects of performance and sensibility. While production efforts themselves are concentrated in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and other overseas locations, Japan-based headquarters largely serve as centers of operations for product development and sales activities. Given the diversity and high degree of completion exhibited by Kagawa products, it goes without saying that the region, as it stands now, is the world’s foremost all-encompassing glove production center.