Soft-side luggage is less complex technologically than hard-side, and Samsonite purchased
Oda, the Belgium soft-side luggage company, to enter that market. Then it licensed its
technology to other European companies. By the mid- i 990s, 48 percent of Samsonite's sales
came from hard-side luggage, 22 percent from soft-side, and 30 percent from attache cases