Coats Group is a thread manufacturer. Co. serves the following markets: Apparel and Footwear, in which it is a thread supplier to the apparel and footwear industries and also a supplier of zips and provides consulting and software services to those industries; Performance Materials, in which it manufactures technical threads and yarn used in a range of industries which include automotive, household and recreation, medical, healthand food, safety, telecoms, conductive and composites; Crafts America, whereby its Crafts business is focused on the Americas textile crafting industry, which it categorizes into two segments: handknitting yarns and needlecrafts including consumer threads and zips.