Dr. Martens is a British boot company listed on the London Stock Exchange, whose 1460 boot takes its name from 1 April 1960. Its accounts and sourcing are published in detail. Yet nothing published by the company, or by any Indian company, names who sells its boots in India.
The one Indian company carrying the Dr. Martens name is a technology centre in Bangalore, set up in February 2025 with one lakh rupees of capital. On 21 September 2026, Myntra’s brand listing showed no Dr. Martens products at all, under three spellings of the name.
Dr. Martens plc (LSE: DOCS) names distribution partners in the UAE, the Philippines and Latin America, but not in India. Its only Indian company is Dr. Martens Airwair India Global Capability Centre Private Limited, a Bangalore technology centre, not a seller. Who runs any Indian shop or site for the brand is not established, and Myntra’s Dr. Martens listing held 0 products on 21 September 2026.
Snapshot
- Listed parent
- Dr. Martens plc, London Stock Exchange main market, ticker DOCS; listed in January 2021
- Group revenue
- £764.9 million for the 52 weeks to 29 March 2026; reported profit before tax £32.7 million
- India revenue
- Not reported; the group reports an Asia-Pacific region, £109.0 million in the year to March 2026
- Indian company
- Dr. Martens Airwair India Global Capability Centre Private Limited, CIN U62099KA2025FTC197941, incorporated 14 February 2025, a technology centre
- Indian seller
- None named in any filing or company document read
- On Myntra
- 0 products under “Dr. Martens”, “Dr Martens” and “DR. MARTENS”, 21 September 2026
- Where it is made
- Mostly Vietnam and Laos, per the planned autumn-winter 2025 split; 1% at the company’s own factory in Wollaston, England
- Price band in India
- None set: no Indian selling price was read
Who owns Dr. Martens
The brand’s own history begins in 1945 with Dr. Klaus Maertens and Dr. Herbert Funck. In 1960 R. Griggs licensed the design, added the yellow welt stitch and the “AirWair” name, and made the 1460 boot.
On 24 October 2013 the Permira funds agreed to buy R. Griggs Group Limited for £300 million, with completion expected in January 2014. Permira’s own release describes Griggs as the parent company of the brand. That release is Permira’s account of its own deal, not a companies-register record.
Dr. Martens plc floated in London at 370p a share on 29 January 2021, a value of about £3.7 billion, with unconditional dealings from 3 February 2021. Permira kept 42.9% at the listing, assuming the over-allotment option was used in full. Its stake today has not been confirmed from a filing, so this page prints no current figure.
- R. Griggs licenses the design1960; the 1460 boot, per the brand’s own account
- Permira funds agree to buy R. Griggs Group24 October 2013, for £300 million
- Dr. Martens plc, LSE: DOCSPriced 29 January 2021 at 370p; Permira kept 42.9%
The chain runs from the brand’s own history through Permira’s release to the offer-price announcement; each step names its source in the references.
The numbers, and the latest year
The company’s financial year ends on the Sunday nearest the end of March. For the 52 weeks to 29 March 2026, published on 19 May 2026, revenue was £764.9 million, down 1.4% at constant currency. Reported profit before tax was £32.7 million and reported operating profit £57.0 million.
Profit before tax was up on the year before. For the 52 weeks to 30 March 2025, revenue was £787.6 million, down 10%, and reported profit before tax only £8.8 million. The Asia-Pacific region brought in £109.0 million in the latest year; India does not appear as a line of its own.
The results for the year to March 2026 are still the latest. A trading update at the annual meeting on 15 July 2026 said trading was “in line with expectations” and kept guidance unchanged, but gave no figures, and the company’s announcements up to 16 September 2026 carry no further results.
Who sells Dr. Martens in India
Among the heritage footwear brands this site audited in September 2026, four routes into India turned up. What matters for a buyer is which document tells you the route. Dr. Martens is on the fourth.
- Route 1A listed Indian partner names the brand in its own filing
- Route 2The brand’s Indian website names an unlisted operator
- Route 3The brand’s own Indian subsidiary sells
- Route 4Nothing published names a seller: Dr. Martens
Dr. Martens has an Indian company, but it is a technology centre.
The group’s own documents were read first. The annual reports for the years to March 2025 and March 2026, and the latest results statement, mention India only as the site of a technology centre. The same documents name partners elsewhere: a distribution agreement with Beside Group in the UAE, an existing partner in the Philippines, and an agreement expanded to Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Uruguay.
The group’s “Where we operate” page lists more than 60 countries of presence and offices from Northamptonshire to Ho Chi Minh City. India is not on it. Because these documents do list partners by country, India’s absence from them is a reading of the record, not a gap in it.
Indian filings were read next. Metro Brands‘ digital annual report for 2024–25 names its third-party brands, Crocs, FitFlop, FILA, Foot Locker, New Era and Clarks, and Dr. Martens is not among them. Brandman Retail’s investor presentation of 20 May 2026 lists ten brands, among them Skechers, and does not list Dr. Martens.
A search of both stock exchanges’ websites for the name found no Dr. Martens filing, where the same search for Skechers brings up Brandman Retail’s. Several large Indian retailers were not checked one by one, so this is a statement about the documents read. No trade report of an Indian tie-up turned up either.
The only Indian company on the register with the Dr. Martens name writes software for the group; nothing published names who sells the boots.
The Bangalore technology centre
The Indian company’s identity number decodes cleanly. U means unlisted; FTC is the register’s marker for a subsidiary of a foreign company; KA is Karnataka; 2025 is the year of incorporation; and 62099 is the activity code for information-technology and computer services.
| Field | What the register mirrors carry |
|---|---|
| Name | Dr. Martens Airwair India Global Capability Centre Private Limited |
| CIN | U62099KA2025FTC197941 |
| Incorporated | 14 February 2025 |
| Capital | ₹1,00,000 authorised and ₹1,00,000 paid up |
| Registered office | J Block, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Outer Ring Road, Nagawara, Bangalore 560045; one mirror gives the first floor, the LEI record the second |
| Directors | Puneet Prakash Mathur, Graham Calder and Giles Robert Bryant Wilson, all from 14 February 2025 |
| Status | “Active” on one mirror; the LEI record shows “ACTIVE” |
Register aggregators and the company’s LEI record, not the ministry filing itself; the floor readings differ between them and are printed as found.
The parent says what the company is for. Its annual report for the year to March 2025 records that “In February 2025, the Group commenced a project to change and improve our global technology capabilities, through the establishment of a new Global Technology Centre (GTC) in India.”
A year later the annual report describes the centre as “a strategic hub that brings together 75% of our technology organisation in one location”, adding that “By centralising teams in Bangalore, we can access a strong local talent pool, reduce reliance on contractors”. The capital of one lakh rupees — that is ₹1,00,000, not a missing zero — fits a captive office. It is not a seller, and no Indian company that sells Dr. Martens turned up on the register.
The trade marks, as the register mirror records them
The Indian trade-mark register, read through the quickcompany.in mirror on 21 September 2026, holds the Dr. Martens and AirWair family under several proprietor names. The first 30 of 75 matches for “Dr martens” and the first 30 of 499 for “airwair” were read. The table prints what the mirror records.
| Proprietor, as recorded | Examples on the mirror |
|---|---|
| Airwair International | 5288622 “Airwair Heel Loop”, class 25, registered; 674586 “Air Wair (label)”, class 25, registered; 5260152 “Dr. Martens 1460”, class 25 |
| Dr. Martens International Trading (GmbH) | 554636 “Dr. Martens”, class 25, registered; 554637 “Dr. Martens.”, class 18, registered |
| Dr. Maertens Marketing (GmbH) | 6170360 to 6170364, “Dr. Martens (In Hindi)”, classes 3, 18, 25, 26 and 35, registered |
Class 25 covers footwear and clothing; class 35 covers retail services. In the rows read, the only class 35 mark was the Hindi-script “Dr. Martens”, 6170364, recorded under Dr. Maertens Marketing. No registered user shows on the mirror.
What Dr. Martens costs in India
This page sets no Indian price, because none was read. Myntra’s brand listing, checked on 21 September 2026, showed 0 products under “Dr. Martens”, “Dr Martens” and “DR. MARTENS”. The same session showed 2,432 products for Columbia, a brand read as a control, so the listing was working.
The home price is clear. On 21 September 2026 the brand’s British site listed the 1460 Smooth Leather Lace Up Boots in black, style 11822006, at £170.00. The page does not say whether VAT is included, and no Indian price for the same style code was read.
With no Indian price and no exchange rate fixed here, no comparison was taken and no gap is printed. That is a gap in this page, not a finding that the boot is missing from Indian shops. The brand’s help centre says “We can ship to most countries!”, without saying whether India is one of them.
A zero on one marketplace’s brand listing describes that shelf on that day, not the whole country. Wherever you buy, ask for the declaration: MRP, country of origin and manufacturer.
This page also does not establish who operates any Dr. Martens shop or website in India, and it names nobody as doing so. A buyer should read the seller’s name on the invoice and the declaration on the box, rather than take a logo on a shop front as proof of who is behind it.
Where Dr. Martens is made
The parent is specific. Its annual report for the year to March 2025 says that “we manufactured our products in nine countries with the majority manufactured in Vietnam”, with the Made in England range and most collaborations made at the Cobbs Lane factory in Wollaston, England.
The same report sets out the planned split for autumn-winter 2025: “62% Vietnam, 31% Laos, 4% Thailand, 2% Pakistan and 1% from our Made In England factory in Wollaston, UK.” India is not named. The company owns one factory, Cobbs Lane in Northamptonshire; the results for the year to March 2026 refer to “multiple high-quality production sites across Asia” alongside it.
The number of contract factories is not published in the text read, and the country split for the latest year was not found. So the boot in a British shop is, on the company’s own figures, most likely made in Vietnam or Laos. Only about one pair in a hundred comes from England.
What the boot’s claims stand on
Dr. Martens sells a sole and a construction as much as a look. Its product and sustainability pages were read for a number, a named standard and a named tester behind each claim.
| Claim, as worded | Number published | Standard named | Tester named |
|---|---|---|---|
| AirWair “air-cushioned” sole | No | No | No |
| Goodyear welt, “heat-sealed and sewn together, not merely glued” | No | No | No |
| “Bouncing Soles” | No | No | No |
| “The majority of our outsoles are made from an alloy of PVC” | A material statement, not a test result | No | No |
These are descriptions, and the pages publish no figure, standard or laboratory behind them. The brand’s wider promise that products “must meet our quality and performance standards” names no laboratory and no standard. In a Goodyear welt the upper and sole are stitched to a strip of material called a welt; the page describes the construction rather than testing it.
On leather the company does name a certifier. Its sustainability page says: “We currently source all our leather from LWG certified tanneries,” LWG being the Leather Working Group, an industry audit scheme. Its annual report for the year to March 2026 states: “Over 98% of leather sourced from tanneries certified Gold by the Leather Working Group.” One figure counts certification, the other the Gold grade; each stands on its own source. Neither page read says whether the leather is chrome- or vegetable-tanned.
Buying a genuine pair in India
With no named Indian seller and no Indian price on the record, the checks that matter are the ones on the box and the invoice.
Read the declaration
Indian law requires MRP inclusive of taxes, country of origin and the manufacturer or importer on the pack. The company’s own sourcing figures name Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Pakistan and England.
Treat an unusual origin as a question
The company made its products in nine countries in the year to March 2025 without naming all nine in the text read. A different origin is a reason to ask the seller, not proof of anything.
Know the home price
The 1460 in black leather was £170.00 on the brand’s British site on 21 September 2026. A price far below what the boot costs at home is worth questioning before you pay.
On the legal record, a search of Indian Kanoon on 21 September 2026 for “Airwair”, “Dr. Martens” and “Dr Martens” found no reported Indian judgment with Airwair International or a Dr. Martens company as a party. The same search for “Crocs Inc”, covered in our Crocs audit, brings back 259 results, so the database finds a brand owner’s cases where they exist. Unreported orders were not searched; read the silence as nothing found rather than proof of nothing there.
Who Dr. Martens is actually for
A buyer who wants a welted leather boot from a company that publishes its sourcing split and names a leather certifier gets real disclosure from the parent. The same buyer in India gets no published answer on who stands behind the pair. For a boot that costs £170.00 at home, that matters more than it would for a cheap shoe.
Anyone after a heavy boot with a clearly documented Indian seller and Indian price should compare the paperwork first; our Woodland audit asks the same questions of another boot brand. Whichever you choose, read the declaration before you pay.
Common questions
Is Dr. Martens a British brand?
On its own account the 1460 dates from R. Griggs’s licence of 1960. The parent, Dr. Martens plc, is listed in London and still owns its original Northamptonshire factory at Wollaston, England.
Who sells Dr. Martens in India?
No filing or company document read names one. The group’s reports name partners in the UAE, the Philippines and Latin America but not India, and no Indian company’s filing read names the brand.
Does Dr. Martens have an Indian company?
Yes, one: Dr. Martens Airwair India Global Capability Centre Private Limited, incorporated in Bangalore on 14 February 2025 with ₹1,00,000 of capital. The parent describes it as its Global Technology Centre. It is not a seller.
Is Dr. Martens on Myntra?
Not on 21 September 2026: its brand listing showed 0 products under three spellings of the name, while Columbia, read as a control, showed 2,432. That is a fact about one shelf on one day.
Where are Dr. Martens boots made?
Mostly in Asia. The planned split for autumn-winter 2025 was 62% Vietnam, 31% Laos, 4% Thailand, 2% Pakistan and 1% England, at the company’s own Wollaston factory.
References
- Dr. Martens plc, “Our brand” — Dr. Klaus Maertens and Dr. Herbert Funck in 1945, the 1960 R. Griggs licence, the 1460’s name, the yellow welt stitch and AirWair branding
- Permira, release of 24 October 2013 — the agreement to buy R. Griggs Group Limited for £300 million and expected completion in January 2014
- Dr. Martens plc, announcement of offer price — the 370p price, about £3.7 billion value, and conditional and unconditional dealing dates
- Permira, release on the listing — the 42.9% stake kept at the listing
- Dr. Martens plc, results statement for the year to 29 March 2026 — revenue, profit before tax, operating profit, Asia-Pacific revenue, distribution partners and production sites
- Dr. Martens plc, investors page — the results date and headline figures
- Dr. Martens plc, results for the year to 30 March 2025 — revenue of £787.6 million and profit before tax of £8.8 million
- Dr. Martens plc, trading statement of 15 July 2026 — trading “in line with expectations” and guidance unchanged
- Investegate, Dr. Martens plc announcements — no further results between 19 May and 16 September 2026
- Dr. Martens plc, annual report for the year to March 2025 — the Global Technology Centre, nine manufacturing countries, the autumn-winter 2025 sourcing split and the Wollaston factory
- Dr. Martens plc, annual report for the year to March 2026 — the Bangalore centre’s description and the Leather Working Group Gold figure
- Dr. Martens plc, “Where we operate” — countries of presence and offices, with no Indian entry
- Register aggregator, the Indian technology-centre company — CIN, incorporation date, capital, directors, first-floor office and “Active” status
- LEI record 6488HY5ZVM4N66558K83 — “ACTIVE” status and the second-floor office
- Metro Brands, digital annual report 2024–25 — the third-party brands named
- Brandman Retail, investor presentation of 20 May 2026 — the ten brands named
- Trade-mark register mirror, “dr martens” — 75 matches and the proprietors and marks listed, read 21 September 2026
- Trade-mark register mirror, “airwair” — 499 matches and the Airwair International marks
- Dr. Martens UK, 1460 Smooth Leather, black — style 11822006 at £170.00, read 21 September 2026, and the air-cushioned sole and welt wording
- Dr. Martens plc, sustainability: product — the PVC-alloy outsole and the LWG-certified tanneries statement
- Dr. Martens help centre, “Do you ship to my country?” — the shipping wording
- Myntra, brand listings read 21 September 2026 — 0 products under three spellings of Dr. Martens, and 2,432 for Columbia
- Indian Kanoon, searched 21 September 2026 — no reported judgment with Airwair International or a Dr. Martens company as a party, and 259 results for “Crocs Inc”
Dr. Martens the company is well documented. Its accounts, its sourcing split down to the percentage, its one owned factory and its leather certifier are all on the record, and its only Indian company is plainly described by the parent as a technology centre.
Dr. Martens in India is less documented. No filing read names a seller, and Myntra’s brand listing held nothing on 21 September 2026. The sole and welt claims are published as descriptions of the construction rather than as test results.
Buy the boot for its construction and its published sourcing, but in India treat the seller’s name and the declaration on the box as the only proof of who stands behind a £170.00 boot.
