Triumph International is a Swiss-based German multinational company owned by the Spiesshofer and Braun families. The company is one of Europe’s main retailers of lingerie. The company has an annual turnover of US$ 1.6 billion and employs more than 30,000 people worldwide. In 1996 Triumph International established a company in Burma ‘Myanmar Triumph International’. The company began operating a factory there in April 1997 exporting lingerie to the international market.