. It was established in 1997. . Shanghai Yongtai Clothing Kingsoft Co., Ltd. is a traditional clothing enterprise in Zhujing. Along the way, it took 25 years to develop from a small rural workshop with less than 5 people in the early stage to having 2 major production bases, a factory building of 27,000 square meters and nearly 1,000 employees. Today, Yongtai Company has become an independent export enterprise with 6 production lines, annual export of 1.4 million suits, and an annual output value of over 300 million yuan. Its products are sold to more than 20 countries including the United States, Russia, Japan, etc.
As a traditional labor-intensive enterprise , facing the sharp rise in production costs such as employment, increasingly fierce industry competition, overall recession in the clothing processing industry, and the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Yongtai has achieved a counter-trend and sustainable development. The production volume of suits ranks first in Shanghai, the output value and tax revenue have achieved steady growth every year, and the transformation and upgrading have achieved remarkable results... How did this be done? Li Changhong, chairman of Shanghai Yongtai Clothing Goldsoft Co., Ltd., revealed the secret with four sets of phrases: corporate management, team building, facing challenges, and giving back.
focuses on enterprise management, "8S" allows factories to stand out in the competition
before the epidemic
Yongtai Company's complete enterprise management model can be seen from the clean and tidy workshop environment. "The floor of the workshop can be used as a stool." This is the real scene of the first-line workshop after Yongtai fully launched the "8S" management. "8S" management means sorting, rectifying, cleaning, cleaning, literacy, safety, saving, and learning. Based on on-site management, Yongtai has continuously improved the company's cultural literacy by creating a learning organization, eliminates safety hazards, saves costs and time, and enhances the company's competitiveness.
In order to seek benefits from management innovation, Yongtai team has conducted in-depth research on the relevant spirit of the "Six Agreements for One Contract" in the textile and clothing industry, and explored and formed a scientific and reasonable "Hour Hours Price Quota Standard for Men's Casual Suits and Trousers", which has achieved an increase in employee enthusiasm and a decrease in labor production costs. The labor production costs of enterprises decreased by 15%, and the economic benefits, quantity and quality ratio of completed quotas increased by 10% year-on-year. Due to the important role of this standard in promoting win-win results for enterprises and employees, it was adopted and promoted and implemented by the National Finance and Trade Light Textile and Tobacco Trade Union.
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takes "quality establishing enterprises and efficiency develop enterprises" as its core strategy. Yongtai also overcomes obstacles to the goal of "building a domestic first-class and internationally renowned brand clothing enterprise" and continues to move forward, insisting on looking at product quality from the perspective of consumers, looking at management and technological innovation from the rise and fall of enterprises, and puts pressure on itself. It has established a factory final quality control team, requiring to conduct comprehensive quality inspection after the production of product . Under the strict self-inspection mechanism, it has continuously passed third-party international certifications such as SGS for several years, and the product quality has continued to improve. At present, Yongtai has also achieved the coverage of big data "cloud management" in the entire production process, and the technological content in the clothing design process has been increasing, achieving level of integration with the industry's cutting-edge level. In 2020, Yongtai Company stood out from more than 6400 processing factories of Uniqlo and was rated as Uniqlo's global excellent factory. In 2021, it was awarded the Shanghai Green Factory and the 8th Jinshan District Mayor Quality Award. Li Changhong said: "These honors are a high recognition of our corporate management and product quality."
faced various challenges and broke through against the trend under the epidemic
Photos before the epidemic
In recent years, while doing a good job in clothing processing, Yongtai Company has also sought to create its own brand. In advance, the "Seagrass" brand established with the positioning of "affordable suits" has begun to take shape, with an annual output of more than 10,000 pieces of . In 2020, the company also established the "Seagrass" brand domestic trade department, and the "Seagrass" brand online store was also launched in mid-2021, and has steadily opened up the domestic trade online sales market. In addition, the mid-to-high-end brand "Camel Grass" has completed trademark application and registration, and the new industry line double-sided fleece coat has now begun mass production.Creating new opportunities in the crisis, following the trend and responding to changes has enabled Yongtai to achieve counter-trend growth in output value under the impact of the global COVID-19 epidemic in recent years.
always have a heart of giving back and choose to use charity to feed the society
In the past few years of continuous development and growth, Yongtai has never stopped practicing charity . It has formed a pair of assistance with poor families, and has successively sponsored many students in need to complete their studies, helping nearly 20 poor families to overcome difficulties; it has actively participated in various social welfare activities, and has donated more than 5 million yuan in total to the society. For more than 20 years, Yongtai has organized employees to send warmth to nursing homes and poor families during festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, and Double Ninth Festival.
Since February 2014, the Guangyuan Hotel, a subsidiary of Yongtai, has undertaken the "Love Helping the Elderly Delivery" project in Zhujing Town, providing services to the elderly over 65 years old in the town, and has delivered more than 250,000 servings of elderly meals. It has been successively rated as the "Top Ten Favorite Community Volunteer Service Projects" in Shanghai and Jinshan District.
html During the epidemic prevention and control at the beginning of 1 year, Guangyuan Hotel organized staff to work overtime to prepare and deliver passenger meals for front-line volunteers, and delivered hot meals to volunteers at the duty stations in more than 20 villages and districts in Zhujing Town on time, and delivered more than 300,000 servings of passenger meals in total. At the same time, the company's employees also participated in the road crossing duty and contributed to epidemic prevention and control.Telemedicine Site (photo taken before the epidemic)
Yongtai also carried out pairing and co-construction with Damang Village, a national civilized village, and established a joint creation mechanism for village-enterprise linkage. In July 2020, Li Changhong, as the honorary village director of Damang Village, Zhujing Town, invested in the construction of a telemedicine point in Damang Village with a new era civilization practice station, and successfully connected the Eighth People's Hospital in the city to provide medical treatment, so that villagers can enjoy high-quality medical services without leaving the village.
After winning the national civilized unit in 2020, in the past two years, Yongtai has been awarded three consecutive "national" honors. Yongtai has been awarded the National Advanced Unit for Party Building in the Textile Industry and a National Demonstration Enterprise for Harmonious Labor Relations Creation. Li Changhong, Party Branch Secretary and Chairman of Yongtai Company, was awarded the National Textile Industry Model Labor.
Written by Shen Huanlin Yin Jieru (Zhujing Town Integrated Media Branch)
Edited by Cheng Jiayu