McKlein Company LLC

Specialties

McKlein Company, LLC is a manufacturer and supplier, offering travel products, such as carry-​on luggage, business products that consist of briefcases, computer bags, laptop sleeves, and rolling totes for the business traveler, casual products, including backpacks, messenger bags, and duffel bags, as well as handbags and satchels. Through its subsidiaries, McKlein Company engages in the design, marketing, and sale of its products primarily under the McKleinUSA, Siamod, and Parinda names worldwide. It sells its products through wholesale channels, department stores, specialty luggage stores, mass merchants, and discounters, internet retailers, and retail channels. As of December 31, 2010, the company has operations in Asia, and North America. McKlein Company, LLC was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

History

Established in 1998.

Headquartered in Chicago, McKlein was founded by Parinda Saetia in 1997 while she was still attending Babson College in Wellesley, MA. Parinda, who was steeped in the family tradition of crafting quality cases from her earliest memory, wasn’t just starting a company; she was continuing a family tradition. While she attended her final year of college, her brother Chettha Saetia, a 1996 graduate of Syracuse University, operated the company while keeping his eye on his dream of designing cases full time. Parinda assumed daily management responsibilities upon her graduation in 1998 and Chettha realized his dream of focusing on design.

Meet the Manager

Chettha S.

Manager

The McKleinUSA brand was conceived in 1998. From its inception, the McKleinUSA brand was marked as an architect of progress for mobile designs. The first case the brand engineered was the patented 12 295 Wheeled Multiple-​Access Computer Catalog Case. According to Chief Design Officer and Executive VP of McKleinUSA, Chettha Saetia, the March 1998 Travel Goods Association (TGA) show in Washington DC first put McKleinUSA on the map. Saetia chose this show to launch his innovative creation of wheeled cases for business professionals, at a time when only wheeled luggage cases were available on the market. Not only was he the first to introduce wheel business cases to the market, but he has since designed the largest selection of professional wheeled cases, in the world, including: business cases, computer cases, catalogue cases, and back packs.