TUMI--The Competition'7 Tumi, one of Samsonite's recent competitors, was founded only in 1975. Like Samsonite Tumi is sold worldwide, although on a smaller scale. At the close of 2012, Tumi distributed its products in 75 countries through approximately 1,700 points of distribution, including retail wholesale, and e-commerce. Some of its channels include partner store distributors or retailers that carry only Tumi its global wholesale distribution network s of ciality luggage retailers, and department stores. Its products are designed in its U.S. design studios, whereas Samsonite has design facilities in different countries to fit local trends Production of Tumi products takes place mostly in Asia (especially China and Thailand) and the Caribbean, rather than Europe, India, and Mexico as is the case with Samsonite One interesting dimension of Tumi's supply chain that is totally lacking in Samsonite's annual report is that Tumi has signed the trafficking and in Supply Chains Act. The law was designed to help illegal child labor, sweat shop slavery from supply chains. This also includes forced labor, conditions, and sexual exploitation. mi adopts a strict policy to enforce its product supply chains, including audits of suppliers to evaluate supplier compliance with company standards. In addition, Tumi is a member of the Fair Labor A ssociation well as the Working Group, an industry group dedi cated to assess compliance and environmental p ormance in the leather industr