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COMPANY PROFILE

KIMO CLOTHING DESIGN CONCEPT PVT. LTD.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY

Location of company in INDIA: KIMO CLOTHING DESIGN CONCEPT PVT. LTD. FACTORY -1 : B-6 SECTOR 63 NOIDA ,UTTAR PRADESH POSTAL PIN CODE 201301 Phone +91-120-4227960-69 Fax +91-120-4022409 KIMO CLOTHING DESIGN CONCEPT PVT. LTD. FACTORY -2 : H-40, SECTOR 63 NOIDA ,UTTAR PRADESH POSTAL PIN CODE 201301 Phone +91-120-4860050 Fax +91-120-4022409 CORPORATE OFFICE: A-150 SECTOR 63 NOIDA UTTAR PRADESH POSTAL PIN CODE 201301 Phone +91-120-4022400 / 30 lines Fax +91-120-4022409 Rajeev@kimoconcept.com www.kimoconcept.com Contact person: Mr. Rajeev Sharma Corporate office and factory is having distance of only 200 mtr. Sector 63 is premier industrial and commercial sector of Noida. Noida is situated only 20 km away from capital of India – New Delhi. Noida comes under the national capital region known as NCR. It is very easy to reach KIMO from international airport of New Delhi through any means of transport. Business information Kimo clothing, design and manufacture, high and mediocre fashion ladies and baby wear apparel for almost all branded retailer of European countries. Some of the known brands ESPRIT, CECIL, BEST SELLER GROUP (VILA, ONLY,

OBJECT), INDITEX GROUP - STRADIVARIUS, PROMOD, JACQUELINE RIU, CACHE-CACHE, ARMAND THIERY, OKAIDI, Tape A' Loeil, NAFNAF, ELCORTE GROUP, CORTEFIEL, E-LAND, and Many More.

Kimo clothing started garment manufacturing business in year 2003.

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Size of manufacturing facility and corporate office 50,000 sq .feet factory areas with state of the art, modern production facility. 15,600 sq feet corporate area. Managing professional Kimo clothing have team of highly qualified and experienced personnel with minimum 10 years of working experience in this industry in their respective area. Growth history Kimo clothing has tremendous history of growth year upon year. Kimo believe in continual growth instead of continuous growth. In continual growth we in kimo grow and than stabilize that growth. We believe in ladder type of growth. The following are the data of our growth:

Turnover growth projected

Year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

volume ( in Thousands) 975 1100 1260

Sales growth projected

Year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

value ( in lac) 4400 5000 5700

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Employment growth projected

year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

In nr. ( Manpower) 300 400 500

CORPORATE AND FACTORY PROCESS INFORMATION.

DESIGN/ SAMPLING: Kimo clothing is design based Apparel Company. This area is directly functioning under Mrs. Marissa Verrips (Head Designer from Holland). She has good working experience in different countries of world. Kimo has aprox 60 employees strength for design and sampling in different category. Majority of the design which is accepted by the customer is kimo’s own design. Kimo creates 20 designs and prototypes every day. PRODUCT INFORMATION: Kimo clothing mainly do ladies and children wear apparel. Company is specialized in manufacturing high and mediocre fashion ladies wear garment with embroidery and hand work. Varity of fabric company uses for constructing garment based on the requirement of design. Chiffon, georgette, silk, Variety of cotton, printed, yarn dyed, and knitted fabric are specialty of kimo. Kimo manufacture 60% of product in woven fabric and 40% in knit. ORDER PROCESSING: Once the design is approved by the client, respective merchant gathers all the information in style file and provide it to factory management with pre production meeting for further process. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING / R&D / CAPACITY PLANNING: Factory start processing the styles in industrial engineering and R&D for better production method for productivity and quality enhancement even before the bulk production start. Through time and motion study kimo plan entire production infrastructure / capacity. Kimo has adequate staff for processing all these activity for every style. STORAGE: Factory has allocated 8000 sq. feet of areas for storing raw materials and pack goods. Kimo clothing has all modern equipments for inspecting raw materials and storing it in wrack.

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LABORATORY: Kimo clothing has in house lab facility with all modern machines for testing of dimensional stability / shrinkage, colour fastness, fabric strength, seam strength etc.

CUTTING: Factory has 5000 pcs daily cutting capacity with all modern cutting equipments such as straight knife, band knife, fusing machines, CAD / CAM etc. cutting machines.

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Five dedicated pattern masters along with three cutting masters, fifteen layer man, ten layer helpers, and ten bundling and numbering employees are part of aprox fifty employees of cutting.

EMBROIDERY / HANDWORK: Kimo clothing has specialization in different kind of hand work. Factory has strength to do any kind of value addition in garment through hand work and machine embroidery.

SEWING: Factory has aprox. 700 sewing machines. 15 sewing lines with aprox 40 to 45 sewing machines each. 1000 dedicated employees such as floor manager, supervisors, masters, quality assurance, inspectors and tailors etc. use these machines to the maximum capacity. Daily sewing capacity is 6000 garments.

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List of machines: FINISH / PACKING: Factory has 6000 garment daily finishing and packing capacity. We follow 1.5 A.Q.L methods in final quality inspections. We have perc / dry clean facility also with daily capacity of 2000 units.

Sr. nr. Type of machine Brand name Qty. 1. Single needle lock stitch (plain & UBT) : Juki 649 nos. 2. Single needle edge cutter: Juki 09 nos. 3. Double needle lock stitch Juki 14 nos 4. Over locks ( 3 to 6 threads) juki 63 nos 5. Flat lock Juki 07 nos 6. Zig Zag stitch Juki 03 nos 7. Multi needle (8 to 16 needle) Kansai 03 nos 8. Rib cutter Juki 03 nos 9. Ilet (metal button) 02 nos 10. Button hole and buttoning Juki 04 sets 11. Straight knife cutting machine Eastman 04 nos 12. Fusing machine hasima 07 nos 13. Boilers 02 nos 14. Pressing tables with iron ramsons 24 set 15. Needle detector machine Hasima 01 set 16. Washing machine (50 kg each complete set with hydro and tumble) 03 set

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QUALITYCONTROL: Kimo clothing follows 4 point quality inspection of fabric. Every lot of fabric is tested in lab for colour fastness, dimensional stability, slippage, strength etc before putting it in final wrack. Trims are properly inspected in laboratory. In sewing, factory has inline critical check point in every line for all critical operations. All complete ready garments get inspected at the end line. After 100% inspection in sewing and finishing factory has established random audit station for inspection to identify whether the goods are ok to move for next process.

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Kimo has adopted “paretto chart” and “fish bone analysis” as tools for quality improvement and management.

LEAD TIME FOR ORDER EXECUTION: 50 – 90 Days depending on order quantity / style / specifications / kind of raw-materials. CODE OF CONDUCT: Kimo clothing is successful audited and approved for code of conduct from BSCI, -La Redoute (audited by BV), Okaidi (audited by AQM) EPILOGUE: This information is only brief about the company. Company management would be very happy to provide any further information in case of any queries.