A Test Of Earthquake To Japanese Textile Enterprises

Communication signal interruption, traffic disruption, power failure, nuclear leakage crisis...... The Japanese earthquake has posed a great threat to the lives of the Japanese economy and the Japanese people.

At the same time, the textile and garment industry in related areas also suffered losses. The tsunami hit all the hypermarket shops, resulting in casualties of many shoppers and shop assistants. Many retail stores, fabric factories and sewing factories in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Yamagata Prefecture were shut down, and many home clothes shops in Tokyo were closed down. As an important distributing center of Asian textile industry, the impact of earthquake on its industry is affecting people's hearts.

Power shortage affects most

According to the latest report of Japan's "Research Institute of textile industry", the biggest impact of the earthquake on Japanese textile enterprises is the tight supply of electricity.

Knitted sweater factory fibre The industrial factory is located in Baihe City, Fukushima Prefecture. The glass of the factory building was damaged. Fortunately, it did not cause much damage and the staff were all safe. But because the power transmission system is paralyzed, the equipment in the factory can not work. If the infrastructure reconstruction after the earthquake is slow, it will have an impact on the operation of the plant. The factory building of Aomori plant has just been built this year. The factory buildings are relatively solid, so the infrastructure has not been damaged, but at present, the power failure is in a state of shutdown.

Matumaru is a family. knitting The clothing factory is located in the total factory of Xiong Teng Machi, Miyagi Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, which has a high topography. Therefore, the loss of the tsunami after the earthquake is not serious, and no casualties have occurred. The equipment in the factory stopped running during the earthquake, but it was intact, and the factory workers in the nearby stone coils were not injured. However, some vehicles were washed away by the flood, and some storehouses were partly flooded, resulting in some economic losses. President Matsumaru Kiichiro said, "the situation of telephone and network communication in the factory area is very poor. The details of the losses can not be assessed yet, but the safety of all the employees has been confirmed. The rest of the work needs to be arranged after the communication condition is restored."

When the earthquake occurred, Descente clothing company located in Iwate County, Austrian city, the factory promptly organized staff asylum, causing no casualties. After the earthquake, factory production stagnated. The Sendai branch is also collecting and confirming the security situation of the counter sales personnel in the Northeast stores and department stores.

Many families shops Forced to close

Besides the production of textile enterprises, the main commercial centers in Japan also shut down shops after the earthquake. The head office in downtown Akita has 10 branches in the northeast and Tokyo. Although the earthquake did not cause any damage, all the shops in the urban area were closed due to the power failure in Akita. In Tokyo, the shop windows were damaged.

The Sendai shop of the city of Qi went to business immediately after the earthquake, and was shut down in March 12th. The San Yue Department Store in Sendai immediately organized the shop assistants to evacuate the guests after the earthquake and stopped operating in March 12th.

There were no casualties in the Mitsui orris shopping center in Sendai port. 4 people were slightly injured in the LaLa Garden of the three well shopping plaza in Chang CHO, and the parking lot collapsed.

Uny is located in Ibaraki county's Zuo Yuan East Branch, Sai Yu county's rock branch store and Tochigi county's foot shop. The fire sprinkler system of foot Li branch was launched, and some walls fell off. No casualties were found.

Honeys brand located in Fukushima County, the head of the city is not too much damage. The next step will be to investigate and assess the damage of shops, systems and logistics in Northeast China.

A 6 year old child died in a EAON department store in Li Fu City, Miyagi Prefecture, where a shop assistant died. Shops in Northeast China are closed due to power supply, and will be open after power supply resumption.

The disaster management center was set up in the lower Sunday store, where the Xebio head office was located, so as to confirm the safety status of the guests and staff in each branch. The company has decided to stop all branches in the 6 counties of the northeastern region and provide asylum information for the employees in the relevant stores. When there is no signal in the cell phone, employees use Twitter network tools to help nearby residents to send information about their loved ones.

Tokyo business district blocked

Affected by the earthquake and tsunami, commercial facilities in downtown Tokyo have been closed down. Yi Shi Dan, Li Chuan shop, song Hu shop and Fu Zhong shop ceased operation after the earthquake. They opened business in March 12th, but shortened their business hours. Chiba store of San Yue Department Store is still closed in March 12th. In March 15th, the Spanish Inditex company announced that it temporarily closed 20 of the 63 ZARA stores it built in Japan, and the MANGO clothing company closed 2 of 7 stores in Tokyo.

Shinjuku Mylord took temporary measures to suspend business in March 12th. Some stores in the pill building, Hui Bi Hou and Akihabara were closed in March 12th. Commercial facilities such as Lalaport Fung Chau shopping centre, Mitsui oorsomoto South Da San shop, Arcakit, etc. were all closed. Many commercial facilities are busy repairing equipment and confirming the safety status of employees. {page_break}

On the day of the earthquake, all the rail transit operations in the urban area of Tokyo were suspended throughout the day, causing chaos to the people who came home from work. EAON Sea Side store and East Kanagawa store opened shop for their accommodation on the same day to those who could not take the bus home.

The Kobe fashion conference, scheduled to be held in Tokyo in March 12th, failed to ensure the safety of the staff in the venue. At the same time, considering the possible traffic pressure on the surrounding area, it announced the cancellation of the event in March 11th. A-net's March 11th "Sunaokuwahara" 2011/2012 autumn and winter fashion show will also be postponed.