For over twenty five years now, Oilily BV (BV is the Dutch equivalent of Ltd) have designed and manufactured their own well know range of funky and stylish bags, with ranges which have always included Baby Changing Bags (Diaperbags) Handbags, Shoulder Bags, Back Packs, Sports Bags, Beauty Bags, Weekenders, Bottle Bags, Purses, and Pencil Cases, plus an exquisite range of 'up market' bags for the Ladies. The staggering thing about Oilily bags, is not only the range and quantity of their collections, but the many and varied designs, and the fact that a new Collection comes out every six months. i.e. One each for Summer and Winter.
From 1978, we at Van Huizen Enterprises (Formally Van Huizen Agencies until the late 1990's) were the sole UK Agents for anything to do with Oilily, including their bag collections, and have supplied numerous shops with Oilily branded products over the years. This came to an abrupt halt in March 2009, when Oilily went bankrupt, resulting in a number of changes all round for numerous people. As you will see below, Oilily bags have never ceased production, as this was licenced out, and we have continued to be the UK Agents, whilst the Oilily kids clothing side of the brand was resurrected for Autumn / Winter 2010, with new agents being appointed for this within the UK.
From 1978, we at Van Huizen Enterprises (Formally Van Huizen Agencies until the late 1990's) were the sole UK Agents for anything to do with Oilily, including their bag collections, and have supplied numerous shops with Oilily branded products over the years. This came to an abrupt halt in March 2009, when Oilily went bankrupt, resulting in a number of changes all round for numerous people. As you will see below, Oilily bags have never ceased production, as this was licenced out, and we have continued to be the UK Agents, whilst the Oilily kids clothing side of the brand was resurrected for Autumn / Winter 2010, with new agents being appointed for this within the UK.
What was not fully understood by many, and had been a continual source of confusion over the years, was the fact that in addition to their own range of designed bags, for many years Oilily BV additionally licenced out the manufacture of a separate, cheaper range of Ladies & Cosmetic bags, aimed mainly at the Dutch home market. These alternative Oilily bags weren't officially available in the UK, and as a result rarely seen here until around 2004/5, when they were unofficially imported into the UK from Belgium, and sold to shops and web-sites here, until this avenue was closed to them in 2008. It was at this stage that Colorful Licenses, seeing the demand, and wishing to formalise matters appointed, Van Huizen Enterprises as their official UK Agent.
Small Oilily Shoulder Bag, V-Puppy, From Spring/Summer 2006
These originally 'alternative' Oilily bags were designed and manufactured separately by another Dutch company, called Colorful Licenses, who today still produce the bags, with Oilily World BV, as Licensor, having to give their approval for all designs intended for production. In 2008, Oilily BV for whatever reason, decided to give up producing bags themselves, which is still the situation today. Colorful Licenses bought all further licences from Oilily World BV, which enables them to soley produce all Oilily bags under the Oilily name, using the Oilily logo. In addition, in 2008, in a carefully orchestrated manovure, the whole Oilily BV bag design team moved across to work for Colorful Licenses, and so the transition was complete.
We at Van Huizen Enterprises, continue to be their sole Agent in the UK for the 'Kids' range of bags. In this capacity we continue to supply shops, boutiques, Department Shops, and larger web-sites with the Oilily bags that so many people are after. In addition, in 2008 we opened up this web-site, which offers members of the public, especially those in far flung corners of the world, the chance to buy bags that may not be easily available to them elsewhere.
As we are the UK agents for a number of children's wear brands, see www.vanhuizen.co.uk and are very busy running this side of our business, we are not trying to compete with the various highly efficient web-sites out there, as it ourselves who we sell these UK based web-sites their Oilily Bags in the first place! Everything we have to offer can be found under the Buy Here headed page.
As we are the UK agents for a number of children's wear brands, see www.vanhuizen.co.uk and are very busy running this side of our business, we are not trying to compete with the various highly efficient web-sites out there, as it ourselves who we sell these UK based web-sites their Oilily Bags in the first place! Everything we have to offer can be found under the Buy Here headed page.