Kinloch Anderson

William Anderson and his two sons set up as tailors on North Bridge in 1868, and the sixth generation — chief executive John Kinloch Anderson — still runs the family firm, now from its own factory and showroom on Dock Street in Leith, where it cuts kilts and Highland dress the way it has for over a century and a half. King Charles III granted it a Royal Warrant as tailors and kiltmakers in 2024, among the first tranche issued under the new reign, which is the trade's highest formal endorsement and, for a firm this old, merely the latest. Tartan is Scotland's most exported idea; this is one of the houses that keeps it honestly made, in Scotland, by one family.