ABOUT THE ENTERPRISE TM “AJOUR” belongs to the multi industry business concern “Univer- sal”, which was held in 1997. “Universal” company is the biggest distributor of the most famous worldwide manufacturers («Unilever», «Maspex» etc.). The company is developing rapidly and is well- known all over Ukraine as the exclusive supplier of the worldwide trade marks. In 2004 the company opened the new 12 years area – garment manufacture. The world saw the first women’s lingerie collection by of market success the trade mark “AJOUR” that year. The manufacturing unit is situated in Khmelnitsky, 320 kilometers away from Kyiv. With the opening of the factory of its own the company has set new high standards in Ukraine’s lingerie manufacture. French spe- cialists were invited for creating branded signature, they set manufactur- ing procedure and created the first women’s lingerie collection. Nowadays their ideas are implemented by famous Ukrainian designers and drafts- men who have been professionally taught in Paris. Nowadays the staff of the industrial enterprise contains about 160 workers. Among those there are professional sewers, set-up operators, fabric cutters, high-professional specialists like technologists, draftsmen, designers and managers. www.ajour.com MANUFACTURING Garment manufacture specializes in the design and production of: • women’s underwear; • women’s swimwear and beachwear; • women’s loungewear; • men’s underwear ; • men’s swimwear; • men’s loungewear; • children’s swimwear. Ideal lingerie is a woman’s weapon www.ajour.com MANUFACTURING Fashion lingerie house “AJOUR” focuses on two key activity areas: 1. Design and production of annual collections for AJOUR, WIN, Bretelle trademarks. AJOUR is a creative fashion-brand. The team of professional de- signers who keeps up with fashion lingerie tendencies works on every collection. AJOUR season collections differ from others due to the edgy style, range of colors, prints and other details. AJOUR collec- tions always leave a lot to the imagination. Every line represents a few design variations of one model. It allows to find the best style due to the personal taste and measurements. There are three main aspects in garment manufacture: the finest materials, unique patterns and the best equipment. 2. Customized massive production of any complexity. Long-term experience of employees allows us to provide impec- cable quality results in a short time, including product improvements recommendations and cost optimization. www.ajour.com QUALITY Swiss quality traditions, French elegance, Ukrainian sewers Factory staff, previously trained in France, has deep knowledge and experience in this particular industry. Having own gold portfolio and annu- al International expo presence for the best suppliers search and fashion trends selection, we offer a Full Cycle production: from design sketch, based on anthropometric characteristics of given area to creation of small and big customized orders. Garment manufacture is proud of how perfectly the products fit. Tem- plates and curves are adjusted to women body individualities. The drafts- men created individual designs for Slavic, American women and women of Middle East. Unique templates accentuate all the peculiarities of woman’s figure www.ajour.com CULT DESIGNS Garment manufacture has the biggest model range among leading lingerie manufacturers. The model range is portrayed of more than 25 bra types and about 45 types of bottoms. Flexibility is our advantage: every line presents 4-5 variations of bras and bottoms. Lingerie size range can get to 40, swimwear size range reaches more than 35 sizes. BRALETTE DEEP PLUNGE ADD-A-SIZE BALCONETTE Special design of a soft bra with This bra style features an ultra-low (PUSH-UP) Delicate lace, without additional triangle cups naturally reflects curved cup, creating a rounded padding, and a low horizontal This bra provides a magnificent breast’s form and visually makes and plump deep cleavage, inspired plunge – this style is inspired by ap- pearance of fullness, while the it bigger, and lack of a wire frame by Marilyn Monroe. Brigitte-Bardot. Inner boning pro- décol- letage appears natural from gives you nice feeling of comfort. vides flawless support. all sides, inspired by Sophia Loren. www.ajour.com INTERNATIONAL TIES In the 10 years since its launch, Ajour has built strong relationships within the global market. Our partners, buyers and clients hail from France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, USA, Russia, Thailand, China, South Africa, Australia and United Arab Emirates. USA FRANCE RUSSIA GERMANY УКРАИНА JAPAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SWITZERLAND CHINA THAILAND SOUTH AUSTRALIA AFRICA www.ajour.com TECHNOLOGY BASE Production premises occupy 9 000 square kilometers. Garment manufacture which occupies around 1 100 square meters consists of the main building, office and storage units including: • production facilities – 650 square meters; • storage units and back office locations - 250 square meters; • offices - 200 square meters. The second building of the garment manufacture which will occu- py around 3 500 square kilometers is due for completion in 2018. www.ajour.com MACHINE CAPACITY Production support base consists of: • Raw material storehouse; • Design services; • Experimental department for creating patterns of any com- plexity and optimization of product quality and cost; • Cutting department; • Sewing Bra Line – production of all types of bra, corsets, bustiers, tunks; • Sewing Bottom Line production of all types and styles of panties; • Technical control and final product packaging area; • Finished goods warehouse; • Office. One can ask for consultation about the prices and terms of agreement here. www.ajour.com INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY Staff members can provide you with knowledgeable assistance in fabric and trimming purchasing both in Ukraine and abroad if needed. Cutting products made by AUTOMATIC system design, including large format digitizer CALCOMP and HEWLETT PACKARD plotter. All designs and patterns are processed by JILIVI software. Among essentials machines are JUKI (Japan), PEGASUS and PFAFF MAUZER SPESIAL (Germany), UNION SPESIAL (USA). www.ajour.com INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY The number of machines is 106, including full-function sew- ing machines, overlock sewing machines, zigzag sewing ma- chines, coverstitch machines and others. Machine capacity allows to produce up to 25 000 pieces per month. After putting the second building into the production planned quantity of the released goods is going to be increased up to 100 000 pieces per month. www.ajour.com CALCULATION OF PRODUCTION CAPACITY Standard minutes for product categories are: • Panties - 15.12 min • Briefs - 18.6 min • Galter belt - 27,66 min • Soft bra - 51.45 min • Molded bra - 42.12 min Maximum capacity per month (in pieces): А) Bra unit 3 teams, with total number of employees 47, produce the max order 12144 / month Б) Bottom unit 2 teams of 12 people, produce the max order 13900 / month. www.ajour.com UKRAINE, 29009, Khmelnytskyi, 54/2 Kuprina provulok TPP Ltd Universal tel.: +38 (0382) 70 38 23 [email protected] www.ajour.com.