Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH, SEHK: 6388) is a luxury American leather goods company that got its start manufacturing small leather goods. These days Coach is best known for ladies handbags as well as items such as luggage, briefcases, wallets and other novelty accessories.

 
Coach was founded in 1941, in a loft in New York City as a partnership called the Gail Manufacturing Company. Gail Manufacturing Company began as a family-owned business, with six leatherworkers who made small leather goods, such as wallets and handbags.