Fresh, Fun, Focused is the motto of the ACL Product Development team. The design development team strives to deliver creative products that fit the buyer aesthetic each season and believes in a detailed and buyer-personalized approach.
At Ambattur Clothing, the “Product People” keep updated with fresh fabric ideas, new developments in the fashion world, develop new techniques be it in washing, finishing, silhouettes or surface embellishment.
The team scouts the globe for novel ideas, sourcing unique material, thus delivering product that is niche, updated and buyer specific.
Team responsibilities:
- Detailed forecasting, study of trends
- Developing seasonal concepts and range planning
- Continuous interactions with buyers to understand aesthetic and requirements
- Source the raw material required to develop the collection
- Thorough development of range in terms of silhouettes, fabrics, trims and any additional surface embellishments
- Constantly innovating and developing washes and finishes
- Presenting a cohesive collection each season meeting buyer requirements and standards
- Lending an aesthetic eye to other departments as and when needed
Marketing
The nerve center for communication within the company, as well as the representative to our clients and suppliers, the marketing team at Ambattur juggles multiple roles throughout the year. Not only does this team manage orders and costs, but also is very active in innovating along with the product development team.
Team Responsibilities:
- Ensures optimum line utilization
- Production planning
- Ensures profitable orders
- Customizes presentation to buyers
Fashion & Technology
As fashion trends change and the pace to market quickens, company has tied up for 3D Technology to empower and stay on the leading edge of technology. This includes constant innovation, full lifecycle customer support, and a passionate belief that inspiration is everywhere — a passion to share and transforming the way fashion will be tomorrow.
Pre-Production
The pre production department is located at all centers and caters to all the production facilities at India ,Dhaka and Jordan. It consists of Pattern ,sampling and R&D department. The pre production departments get first information with regards to buyers/ styles /fabrics and ensure that patterns and samples are made in accordance with the requirement of the buyer.
The pre production department ensures that the all styles that are planned in the factories are approved within the given time frame. The team strength is 324 personnel in India, 300 in Dhaka and 70 in jordan.
Production process is supported with about 6000 state of the art machineries,modern layouts,top class material handling systems and optimum care at needle point to meet quality and quantity requirements.
INDIA
JORDAN
DHAKA
Laundry
The laundries at India and Bangladesh have a capacity of 275,000 piecs and 650,000 per month respectively with washes ranging from enzyme to various garment dye and denim washes.
A new laundry with a floor area of 100,000 sq. ft is nearing completion in Dhaka and expected to go into full operation early 2017 with a production capacity of 2.78 milllion pieces per month. India is working towards sustainable manufacturing and currently recycling 20% waste water and has planned to increase this to 40% in 2017.