Following its appearance in the previous issue of Hello Ostra, about the current economic situation of local firms, we collected the testimony of an artisan company that is on the "battlefield".
The company packs of clothing Ostra, in the first years after the birth (1986), has just experienced the boom in the sector: continued growth in job orders (up to 20,000 garments per season) and consequent increase in staff: in 1990, had 12 employees. But in the late nineties the company began the crisis. In particular, in 1998, he worked for a major company has moved production overseas, thus drastically reducing the orders and then had to look out for quality work, often contenting that of "second hand", ie that in which profit margins are very low.
Today, the artisan is left with three workers and is undergoing the most difficult period in its history, and fears that the worst will happen again if the conditions will not change. In substance, the owner believes it is necessary to develop several factors, summarized below, to improve their situation and that of other companies.
First, the market for textiles and clothing should be better regulated: the labor, especially foreign ones, it should be legalized, the black economy should be checked, because as long as the work will be granted to those who do not comply the rules for local companies will be increasingly difficult to survive. The Government should also provide for reducing the cost of employees: so far, during periods in which the work was not there, the company has received a layoff that allowed her to not lay off the workers, but considering that the same compensation Society is running out, the owner fears for the future of their employees.
Banks should be more sympathetic to small businesses, at this critical time are, however, limit the use of credit, particularly to the commercial company that provides immediate liquidity, such as operations in advance of the invoices. To this, add difficulties in recovering the debt owed by the increasing number of customers defaulting. Even the local associations that do not seem to have given an important impetus for the revival of the sector, should strive to better represent the businesses in the "palaces" that matter, to the benefit of the textile and clothing market. Finally, the owner calls for greater cooperation between local companies operating in the same sector.
But despite the daily difficulties, the constant search for work that "is not a throw," the holder wishes to continue trading, so that took his life and confesses that today is the "itch" that the going.
The company packs of clothing Ostra, in the first years after the birth (1986), has just experienced the boom in the sector: continued growth in job orders (up to 20,000 garments per season) and consequent increase in staff: in 1990, had 12 employees. But in the late nineties the company began the crisis. In particular, in 1998, he worked for a major company has moved production overseas, thus drastically reducing the orders and then had to look out for quality work, often contenting that of "second hand", ie that in which profit margins are very low.
Today, the artisan is left with three workers and is undergoing the most difficult period in its history, and fears that the worst will happen again if the conditions will not change. In substance, the owner believes it is necessary to develop several factors, summarized below, to improve their situation and that of other companies.
First, the market for textiles and clothing should be better regulated: the labor, especially foreign ones, it should be legalized, the black economy should be checked, because as long as the work will be granted to those who do not comply the rules for local companies will be increasingly difficult to survive. The Government should also provide for reducing the cost of employees: so far, during periods in which the work was not there, the company has received a layoff that allowed her to not lay off the workers, but considering that the same compensation Society is running out, the owner fears for the future of their employees.
Banks should be more sympathetic to small businesses, at this critical time are, however, limit the use of credit, particularly to the commercial company that provides immediate liquidity, such as operations in advance of the invoices. To this, add difficulties in recovering the debt owed by the increasing number of customers defaulting. Even the local associations that do not seem to have given an important impetus for the revival of the sector, should strive to better represent the businesses in the "palaces" that matter, to the benefit of the textile and clothing market. Finally, the owner calls for greater cooperation between local companies operating in the same sector.
But despite the daily difficulties, the constant search for work that "is not a throw," the holder wishes to continue trading, so that took his life and confesses that today is the "itch" that the going.
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