Gerard Lazcano and Barb Bruno had a children’s clothing brand with their own factory in Argentina, where the entrepreneurial couple originated. They left the company when they came to live in Catalonia, but they took away the desire to start a business with them. “After five years working in children’s design for Adidas, I wanted to have my own brand again,” Bruno admits.
In 2013, the couple once again gave birth to a new children’s clothing brand: Tinycottons. On this occasion they chose to use third-party factories. Their designs were so liked that in 2019, at the request of the mother clients, they launched a collection of women’s clothing. They named the new brand The Tiny Big Sister.
Both firms are included under the Tinycottons group. They manufacture in Spain, Portugal, India and Turkey and the company’s tiny outfits (tiny in English means ‘tiny’) are worn in around fifty countries. They sell both online and through some 300 multi-brand physical stores. In addition, businessmen have dared to open their own stores and already have three in Barcelona, ??where the company is headquartered, one in Madrid and two in China (one in Beijing and another in Shanghai). Barb Bruno advances that in September they will open a second store in Madrid and that by the beginning of 2024 they will land in Seoul (South Korea) with their own establishment.
It is popularly said that there are no two without three and this has been the case for Tinycottons. “I found a supplier of biodegradable rubber and, thinking with my daughters about what could be done with this material, we created the sustainable toy and accessory firm We Are Gommu”, explains the co-founder. The new firm was born in 2021 and is now about to expand with a line of metal toys and another of miniature rubber toys.
The Tinycottons group employs 49 people and last year achieved a turnover of 12 million euros.
