Kuro Panama Hat

Westley Richards

£195

The Westley Richards Panama is hand-woven in Ecuador and expertly shaped, blocked, and finished in England. Handmade in Cornwall by bespoke hat maker Marcel Rodrigues exclusively for Westley Richards, this timeless Panama is produced in a strictly limited run of just 20 pieces. Designed to look and wear comfortably for many summers to come, the Men’s Panama features a classic, timeless silhouette suited to both town and travel. Finished with a rich brown grosgrain ribbon and a soft leather interior band, it combines traditional craftsmanship with understated refinement. Handmade exclusively fo

Westley Richards's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as WESTLEY RICHARDS AND COMPANY LIMITED, number 00439612. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Housed in our Birmingham factory, on the edge of the traditional Gun Quarter, Westley Richards gunmakers today work much as their grandfathers' generation did, using files, chisels and secret potions to turn walnut and steel into supreme hunting rifles and sporting shotguns." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
Foreign-owned
Majority ownership sits in Qatar, with Shiekh Sultan Jassim M J Al-Thani. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.