About us

Bulgarian family company
Found in 1995, TASHEV is a bulgarian company, located in Pleven, Bulgaria. 20 years now, the company manufacture backpacks & outdoor accessories under its own brand TASHEV, known for its supreme quality, strength & durability.
Built from the ground up by determined & principled young people - outdoor enthusiasts, willing to manufacture quality equipment for the people like them. Bulgaria's dynamic economic environment in the last 25 years has been enough for gaining experience, building values & finding a right place.

Own production facilities
During these 25 years of growth & improvement, the company, its managers & the whole team gained expirience & built a modern manufacture here, in Bulgaria.
TASHEV's own production facilities give a possibility for control of the whole manufacturing process & when necessary, quick decisions to be made & the implemented measures to be taken. The building of an own factory, specially organized for the manufacture of the TASHEV collection, gurantee the high quality of the products & the flawless reputation of the brand.

High standards
At TASHEV, we create products for people with passion for mountains & outdoor adventures - people just like us. That's why the TASHEV backpacks are made with enthusiasm & special attention. Our aim is the equipment coming out of our factory to be absolutely durable & reliable - one you could always count on.  All products with the TASHEV branding have to serve long & flawlessly, to meet the highest durability & quality standards. All materials, & later - all products, go through our own tests in real conditions.

"The backpack-making never became just business. Everything is still too personal. Our main & most important priority will always be to offer you reliable products, ones you could always count on. We make TASHEV backpacks as for ourselves - their first & regular users. We have to like them first in order to offer them to you."
Gergana & Georgi Tashev, managing owners

Partnership integrity
Partnership is in the core of our relations with providers & clients. Intergrity in business & compliance with the law are the company's ethical norms. All relationships are based on them - with partners as well as with employees. A trust has been built through the years between the TASHEV team & its partners & the community. A trust, carefully looked after by the company & one of the reasons of its success.

TASHEV manufacture products for people who have a passion for mountains & outdoor adventures - people just like TASHEV's founders. That's why every product is made with special attention.
Ran directly by the owners, who are a part of the team, the company keep high standards & working conditions, a healthy, safe & comfortable working environment as well as ethical relationships, based on mutual respect & understanding. Tough backpacks are made by a tough team.
Recruited to the team are people, sharing the company's principles, perceiving the concept & proud of the reputation of the brand they are working for. With growing professionalism, the team takes the responsibility to maintain the high standard of quality, set by TASHEV & keep the good name of the brand.

CONCEPTION

TASHEV backpacks are durable & reliable. Whoever buys one, does it for its quality. The TASHEV buyer isn't affected by advertisements, promotions or campaigns because there aren't any. There are no trade organization elements in the company's structure. TASHEV doesn't have sales & a Sales Representative, doesn't have set targets constantly to chase & never had. Nobody is being persuaded to buy - the products sell themselves.
This is a simple concept: if a product is truly good, it doesn't need any advertisement - it sells itself. With zero marketing budget, no overcharges for sales Representatives & distributors, the price of the backpack is close to its true cost. Thanks to this concept, the prices of the TASHEV backpacks are comparable with the low-class backpacks worldwide but what the client get is high-class quality. An unarguable fact, which makes the brand different & unique.
The expectations towards the TASHEV backpacks are high. That's why our team is focused on the products, their quality & durability, so nobody who buys TASHEV to be left disappointed.
This concept has proven to be the key to success for the young bulgarian brand.

PRODUCTION/TECHNOLIGIES

The manufacture of a backpack is not just putting details together on a sewing machine. It's a long & laborious process, involving various manipulations with diverse complexity & specificity. Involved in this process are many people with diverse qualifications & skills, as well as various specified heavy duty machines as well as highly specialized sewing machines. Some of them are custom made for TASHEV's particular needs.

The backpacks are large products & their manufacture requires a solid technological base & large production & warehouse areas. In order to achieve a supreme quality & strength, TASHEV follows a strategy of complete independence. The company invests in its own production facilities & doesn't work with subcontractors.

The backpacks are manufactured at TASHEV's own factory, specially designed for the brand's collection, here, in Bulgaria. The refining of the products, the technology of manufacture, the qualification & skill raising of the team are all one constant process. Combined with the precise selection of premium materials, shipped from european factories, a high quality is guaranteed in every TASHEV product.
Products from a bulgarian brand, manufactured in Bulgaria with materials from Europe - TASHEV backpacks - "No China products".

The selection of materials is a responsible job when quality & strength are on focus. Research is involved, as well as constant awareness, & tests of new materials.

We select the materials for the TASHEV backpacks with close attention, because the strength & durability depend on them - the main priority of the brand TASHEV.

We supply high-class materials, made in european factories. They are not just fabrics & straps but specialized materials, made for products, exposed to extreme exploitation. Most of them are patented & worldwide brands, equivalent of strength & high quality: YKK® zippers, CORDURA® fabrics, Duraflex® buckles & plastic details, TEBOX® breathable fabrics. All other materials, used in TASHEV backpacks - materials for the back, threads, bands & belts, cords, eyelets - even those not visible - we choose carefully from trusted european suppliers with quaranteed quality & the right criteria. Through the years, we developed good partnership with several european factories. Some of the materials are custom made for us. A new material is implemented only if the product's quality would improve - the lower price is never a reason. We never use alternative materials, even if we'd lose orders.

Each material, even the patented ones & those stronger than we need, is tested by our methods in our testing centre: we put them under low temperatures & right away under high; we perform instantaneous pressure; heavy load on one spot; water tests & other. The prototypes of every new model or update are tested in real conditions in the mountains, with deliberately exaggerated rough exploitation, simulating a high drop of the backpack, a heavy rain, drop in a river & other.
An analisys of the behavior of the backpack is made, as well as of the condition of the key zones with highest tension. Changes are made if needed & if more tests are not necessary, the product is brought to manufacture.

More about the materials:

Cordura®DuPont® is a high-tech fabric, made from DuPont® for the manufacture of products, exposed to extreme use & requiring superior strength. All Cordura®-made products are highly resistant to abrasion, wear & tears. Their life span is longer than even the most durable polyester. Exceptionally strong polyamide threads are being put under special thermal treatment, resulting in 10 times stronger synthetic treads with the same weight. The fabric is unique with its durability at a light weight. Due to its unarguable & proven long life, Cordura® is globally recognized as the best fabric for backpacks.


Only the best fabric factories in the world own a DuPont® license for manufacturing Cordura®. TASHEV's cordura is made in Germany. The fabric has an excellent german quality, lightweight silicone impregnation & Teflon® coating - a protective upper layer, enhancing the fabric's strength & repelling dirt. This additional treatment prolongs the backpack's life even more & makes cleaning & maintenance easy. Beside Cordura® Classic, we brought in Diamond RipStop & several more varieties, all of them 100% Cordura®.

TASHEV's backpacks, made from Cordura®, are not only reinforced with Cordura on the key zones, but made ENTIRELY from Cordura® - durable & reliable products with a long life span & a remarkably light weight for their class. You would highly appreciate the fact that after years of use, the backpack would be as strong as the day you bought. www.cordura.com

Look for the original marks, provided by DuPont® with every meter of CORDURA®: a cardboard label CORDURA®, attached to the product along with the rest of the labels & an original textile label CORDURA®, sewn to the the product.

Buckles DURAFLEX®
A globally leading brand for plastic buckles & details for the manufacture of outdoor backpacks. Found in USA, the brand offers the most functional & reliable plastic accessories for the outdoor industry. Each DURAFLEX® detail is made specially for a specific role in particular product. They are made from ACETAL - a product, altering its structure under -50°C, which makes them highly resistable to heavy loads & extreme temperatures. All plastic elements in TASHEV's backpacks are DURAFLEX®.

3D Mesh fabric
A breathable fabric, constructed for the contact zones - shoulder straps, back, hip belt. The special 3D fabric provides air flow & ventilation, which enables the skin to breath & reduces sweating. Consists of 3 layers - mesh upper, bonded with the mid layer through millions polyamide threads, forming a "cobweb" middle, through which the air flows freely when the pack is on the back. Еliminates the "adhesion" feeling & significantly increases comfort. It is also combined with a perforated penopropylene for the AIR shoulder straps of some models - lightweight & breathable.

Zippers YKK®
The japanese brand zippers YKK® is used with trust worldwide because of its flawless production standards & comprehensive processes for control of quality. The spiral is resistable to strong lateral streching & extensive use in various conditions - extreme temperatures, moisture, dust. The lifespan of the zippers depends not only on the tension but on the intensity of use as well - the number of openings & closings. On this matter the YKK® zippers are over 10 times more durable than all others. That's why all zippers in the TASHEV's products are YKK® - various sizes spiral zipper & velcro. Look for the YKK branding on the zip puller.