Humen Garment Industry: High Cost Of Manpower

"No matter how many goods you sell, you are suddenly sold out by the merchants who come to you."

Tiger men described the prosperity of Fu Min clothing city in those days.

Nowadays, clothing industry is rising everywhere and competition is becoming more and more intense.

At the beginning, it was difficult to continue the myth of creating wealth at low cost.

Recently, a reporter visited a family in Humen.

He Weihong, the boss of the factory, tells about his pioneering career in the past ten years. He exclaimed at the change of Humen's clothing industry: "8 years ago, 30 thousand yuan was hard to start up, and 8 years later, it was difficult for 300 thousand yuan to start business."

Among them, the rapid growth of human cost has become a difficult threshold for enterprise development.

Investment venture, 30 thousand yuan to 6 thousand yuan loss

He Weihong is a native of Hubei. After he got married 8 years ago, he was bent on achieving his career in Humen.

In those days, he knew nothing about the clothing industry. He even took out 30 thousand yuan that he had accumulated for many years and rented a very obscure stall in the Yellow River fashion city of Humen. The rent was 3300 yuan per month.

"To see everyone making money in this business, I want to try it."

Learning from others' entrepreneurial experience, he came back from the wholesale clothing of Fumin clothing city and his wife shouted at the stalls.

Unexpectedly, clothing was not sold as well as originally thought.

Two months later, only 6000 yuan left for the family.

It's my dream to buy a about 100000 car and buy a small house at that time.

Looking at the 6000 yuan in hand, the taste of my heart is not something anyone can understand.

He said.

After reviewing the painful experience, he summed up the experience: the high priced clothing purchased is good but not sold, and the clothing that is running near the stalls is too large to match the style and the difference. Therefore, the selection of goods is the key.

Changing ideas and opening two clothing stores

So he took out the remaining 6000 yuan, and chose a number of ladies' clothes in the Fumin clothing city, ready to go all out to change the shop.

This change has made He Weihong shop's business flourishing.

"At that time, I could earn more than 600 yuan a day, and earn more than 1000 yuan on Sunday."

Six months later, more and more money was accumulated, and He Weihong opened second clothing stores on the first floor of the Yellow River. At the end of 2004, he joined other people in making a stall for clothing wholesale in Fumin fashion city.

The business in the store is good, and the source of goods needs to be solved.

"At that time, it was a business practice and asked a lot of people where to buy, no one would say."

However, He Weihong, who is very smart, learned from other people's mouth that the price of Guangzhou thirteen elements was very low.

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"It was easier to see the goods at that time, but it was more difficult to get the goods back, and I dragged them back through the bus."

He Weihong said, those days, it was really hard.

Factories are becoming more and more prosperous.

With the increasing demand for clothing wholesale, since 2005, He Weihong has registered "ice crystal pleasant" clothing brand, and opened a garment factory in Humen Town mouth community.

At that time, He Weihong's clothing factory had an area of only more than 130 square meters, and the workshop rent was 2000 yuan / month.

"We opened up the factory, we invested 3.4 million yuan, the basic wage of workers is 1800 yuan / month, and the bag eats.

Compared with the same industry, the wages of workers are relatively high.

He Weihong said that workers pay mainly by piece, the price is generally 5 yuan / piece, catch up with goods can reach 8 yuan / piece.

In 2006, the monthly wages of workers reached more than 2000 yuan, and the cost of workers' meals was about 5 yuan / day.

"Before the Humen clothing market is more busy season, less off-season, clothing wholesale starts from the new year, January to June is the peak season, July basically can guarantee bottom, August is off-season, will lose a little, but from September to December is the wholesale season of clothing.

One year down, two months of slack season, business is very good.

He Weihong said that the manpower cost is not high and the clothing market is booming.

Not only did the dream of buying a car come true, but also changed the about 100000 yuan car into a crown and replaced it with a new house in Fengtai garden.

In order to retain staff, the minimum wage increases year by year.

Like most small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, in 2009, He Weihong's clothing factory encountered the problem of "labor shortage".

At that time, He Weihong moved the factory from the town hall community to Wang Wu Village, the factory area expanded to 380 square meters, and the number of garment factory workers increased from more than 20 to more than 30, so as to develop and meet difficulties.

In order to retain workers, the clothing factory has also begun to implement the "bottom guard" wage measure: the monthly salary is 1500 yuan per month.

In 2010, the base salary increased to 2000 yuan, and in 2011 it was raised to 2500 yuan.

The manpower cost of garment factories has been greatly improved in recent years.

Today, the wages of our factory workers have risen to 3000 yuan / month's basic salary, and the number of workers is 6000 yuan per month.

In He Weihong's view, the rising cost of labor is a common phenomenon in the entire garment industry.

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As prices rise, food costs have also increased significantly.

Now, the average daily food expenses per worker has increased to 12 yuan / day.

proposal

Establishing access system to avoid "roasted seeds"

Making the market more important

In He Weihong's view, the growth of human cost is not the biggest worry, and the prosperity of the market is what he cares most.

"The sales market is not active and the production cost is low."

He said that nowadays, the clothing market in Shenzhen and Guangzhou is very strong, and some of the "stalls" in the shopping malls have become intermediaries in other markets.

"Nowadays, information and pportation are convenient, where the goods are cheap, and the quality of the goods is good, so the customers will definitely go directly, and it is no longer the time when information is blocked."

He Weihong suggested that the shopping center should establish an access system. If all the products are self produced, they will attract businessmen to come and buy.

"If I go on like this, I will choose to open a store in Guangzhou. Humen is only producing here."

He said ironically, some of the friends who had opened stores in the thirteen line of Guangzhou even met their former customers there.

He Ruixiang, deputy general manager of Fumin Service Co., Ltd., today, the proportion of self produced businesses in fuming clothing city has increased considerably.

At present, no access system has been established.

First of all, more than 90% of the registered merchants in rich people have factories and board shops.

Secondly, the business profit of "roasted seeds" is very low, and it is difficult for the rich people to rent at the current rent of fifty thousand or sixty thousand yuan.

"There is a possibility of this happening, especially in the peak season, where two or three of ten people's factories do not sell enough clothing, and there is a complementarity in getting goods elsewhere."

He said.

He said that if managers interfere too much in the market, they will have a negative impact.