High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cad and the Dandy is an independent tailoring firm based in London, UK with premises in the City and on Savile Row. It manufactures bespoke suits from English and Italian fabrics, using traditional tailoring methods and its suits are significantly more affordable than those from the more traditional tailors of Savile Row. The company was founded in 2008 by James Sleater and Ian Meiers; two city bankers who, at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, were both made redundant from their jobs. Both having family connections to the tailoring industry, they combined their knowledge and launched across London. In the company`s first two years of business it has grown substantially, achieving a turnover of 1.3m in 2010 and attracting increasing local, national and international press coverage, including being listed by The Guardian in the Couvoisier Future 500. In July 2010 the founders won the Bento Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Macworld Awards.