When facing adverse market conditions, it is advisable to be more efficient and productive… Go lean, invest and upgrade your machines is the only way for survival, feels Narendra Goenka, MD, Texport Industries, a SA 8000 and WRAP certified shirt specialist from Mumbai. The company has expanded its capacity by 15 per cent by adding 600 machines with an investment of Rs. 15 crores.
Established in 1979, Texport Industries has 11 factories mainly in southern India where about 9,000 workers manufacture men’s and women’s wear. In the last financial, the company registered a turnover of Rs. 394 crores. “Besides adding new buyers, expanding capacity is a regular exercise for us and we expand every year by 5 to 7 per cent at least,” informs Goenka.
