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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"clothing manufacturing"”.
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The business strategy development among SMME's in the KwaZulu-Natal clothing manufacturing sector
Thesis (Masters in Business Administration)-Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2006.
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Factors influencing operational performance for SMMEs in the textile and clothing manufacturing sector in the eThekwini district
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Management Sciences: Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Exploring Circular Economy principles in the clothing manufacturing industry driven by fast fashion: Stakeholder Perspectives and Policy Implications in Cape Town, South Africa
… explores Circular Economy (CE) principles in the clothing manufacturing industry. The clothing manufacturing industry currently faces interconnected issues that affect the three pillars of sustainability – Environmental, Economic and Social aspects. This is because this industry operates on a …
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Collective bargaining, minimum labour standards and regulated flexibility in the South African clothing manufacturing sector: at the level of the national clothing bargaining council's Western Cape sub-chamber
In the context of a society in which there is an urgent need to create jobs, this research considers, firstly, whether the current labour regulatory environment is flexible enough to allow for an employment scenario that is conducive to job creation. The research then considers what is meant by the …
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Open source building alliance ecology : the Internet framework for consumer driven participative design
… Hippel, 2006). Success stories in computer and clothing manufacturing signify that the adoption of Open Source practices may improve service standards and productivity (Clayton, 2001; Thomle & Von Hippel, 2002). Although Open Source strategies have been adapted in many design industries for …
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Adaptive Reuse through Layering: Transforming the Rex Trueform Clothing Factory
… 2005 of the imminent closure of the Rex Trueformclothing manufacturing plant in Salt River created a large impact on the CapeTown economy in view of the nearly 1000 jobs that were at risk. The reason forthe closure, according to management, was due to globalisation.1Four years have past since the …
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A MASS CUSTOMISED CLOTHING SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION MODEL FOR A HIGH STREET STORE
It is widely accepted that current clothing manufacturing technology can potentially provide mass customised clothing. Although independent tailors. boutiques, couturist and manufacturers were expanding their business, this trend was not observed in the high street sector. There is therefore a …
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Perfect Harmony: the Myth of Tupelo's Industrial Tranquility
… businessmen established a cotton mill and three clothing manufacturing companies in Tupelo, the seat of Lee County. Town boosters boasted of harmonious relations between workers and management at each of the industrial facilities. In the spring of 1937, however, the cotton mill hands undertook a …
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Unstitching Rex Trueform: exploring apartheid modernity and architectural modernism through the Rex Trueform garment factory, Salt River 1937 - 2013
… study of the Rex Trueform garment manufacturing factory in Salt River, Cape Town. It follows the narrative of the site from the date of completion of the first factory in 1938 up until conversion of the site into an office park in 2013. Architecturally, the buildings are key works …
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Employee wellness programme in clothing/ textile manufacturing companies: What are the effects?
… body mass index (BMI) and absenteeism amongst clothing and textile manufacturing employees. Methods: The study was a randomised control trial consisting of 80 participants from three clothing manufacturing companies in South Africa. The experimental group was subjected to a wellness programme …
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A history of garment and tailoring workers in Cape Town, 1900-1939.
The large scale production of clothing started relatively late in South Africa because of the inability of local manufacturers to compete with cheap imports. The industry's tendency to draw the most exploitable workers into a system of "sweated labour" emerged clearly during World War I, when …
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Innovations and Improvisations: A study in specialized product development focused on business clothing for women with physical disabilities
Clothing manufacturers and distributors in the current business climate need to become more flexible and willing to adapt to consumers' changing needs and preferences in order to satisfy the market (Kincade, 1995). Clothing consumers who have special needs, such as working women with physical …