1. V&M is a family run Company which was set up in 1995 and has been manufacturing fine leather goods (office accessories, bags and home accessories)
2. The Company was started with two employees to execute an order for 500 bags received from Germany by a friend who exported cotton garments. The experience encouraged the formalization of the Company. Since then it has exported leather goods to USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Russia, Australia and Singapore. In the process the Company now provides employment to over 250 employees and has a pool of versatile manpower trained, like its founders, by own experience within the Company.
V&M is ethically compliant to the standards of SEDEX, UK which carries out annual audits of the Company products
3. The Company manufactures a wide range of leather goods which cover most leather items except garments and shoes. The approach has been to do creative rather than mass manufacture work and it is with that in view that we have trained our workers to be versatile rather than specialists. This has, however, been achieved without compromising on quality with the result that we have had remarkable continuity of work with our buyers all these years.
4. While leather goods has been our main field of activity we have welcomed work in other mediums when our buyers have so demanded. In fact our product that made it to the Vogue ‘must have’ category was a textile and natural fiber bag made to meet the requirement of our German buyer who designed the item.
Working Methodology
5. From some of our buyers we receive design spec sheets, while some come and design with us.
6. Other buyers select from products created by our own design team. One of our strengths is that we can find sampling and production solutions to most designs sent to us. We also have a strong design and sampling team that constantly produces new products many of which have found their way to our existing buyers .
7. Our main buyers are Barnes & Noble, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel, Habitat, Hallmark, Chicos, TESCO and The Conran Shop. We also working with buyers in Spain, Israel and Lebanon.
8. All our work, except for some very highly specialized processes, is done in-house and we have endeavored to develop our machinery base accordingly.
9. Our relations with our suppliers are excellent and we have built long term relationships with them. Due to this our suppliers are willing to experiment along with us and in fact enjoy doing the different kind of leathers we require particularly making our occasional small quantities.
Perspective and Future
he underlying approach has been to blend the uniqueness of traditional Indian handicrafts with the quality and consistency afforded by modern machinery. India is a land that still has a huge uneducated and poor population. Since this likely to change only over a period it is essential that Indian industry find ways to tap the latent potential of its intelligent and hardworking poor and speed up their betterment. V&M's machinery is a judicious mix of machines selected from Italy, USA, Japan and China. Our R&D too is guided by the need for blending craftsmanship with machines. Moreover even our unlettered workers are given an opportunity to learn handling modern machines. This also enables job security.
11. We have made it a practice to plough back most of the profits into making ours a stronger Company so that there is all round stability and our workers get more secure employment. As a result of regular ploughing back of profits we now have a 19000 sq ft facility at the Industrial Model Township at Manesar. We are continuing even now to grow and expansion plans are under way to add to our facilities and capacity further.
12. At this new facility we have added a number of new machines imported from Italy so that we further improve our quality and range. The mix of machines has been selected so as to produce products of consistently good quality while keeping the essential uniqueness that is the strength of Indian handicrafts.
Quality Assurance
The Quality Control Team is entirely independent of production and has sub teams for online QC and final QC and Inspection.The Quality Control Team is entirely independent of production and has sub teams for online QC and final QC and Inspection.
The QC Department is well equipped with equipment to check that production is as per laid down norms.
Our Team..
We are a well structured Company with responsibilities clearly demarcated and with a clear reporting chain that has served us well.
Manufacturing Facilities
In order to maintain quality we have a varied mix of machinery ranging from specialized leather goods preparation and assembling machines, paper converting machines, screen printing machines, to machines for embroidery and metal embellishments prototyping
We have a capacity of 300,000 journals, 120000 ladies bags and 300000 small leather goods.
Product Portfolio
We have carved a niche in the market by providing our clients with a vast range of leather goods. These are being manufactured as per the industrial standards by our qualified and skilled team. We use high graded leather as raw material to ensure the high quality standards of our products. Along with the leather, we use other media such as faux leather and fabric either in combination with leather or by themselves. In fact the one item of the Company that featured in the Vogue must have was made of fabric woven on looms in the factory to the specifications of a German designer. Our huge range encompasses of the following:
Leather Home Furnishing Accessories
Leather Cushions
Leather Poufs
Leather Photo frames
Leather Jewellery Boxes
Leather Storage Boxes
Leather Candle Stand
Office Accessories
Journals
Pen pencil Case
Sketch Pads
Covers
Document Holder
Desktop Sets
Planners
Bookmarks
Paper Weight
Travel Bags
Belts
Men’s Belt
Ladies Handbags
FaLadies Purses
Men’s Bag
Portfolio Bags
Document Bags
Ladies Accessories
Handbags
Ladies Party Bags
Totes
Coin Purse
Social & Environmental Considerations
Social Compliance
V&M is ethically compliant to the standards of SEDEX, UK which carries out annual audits of the Company.
10. We have ensured that we provide all social security benefits to our workers and constantly try to improve working conditions. Just as an example of our concern for our workers we are proud that among other steps we have taken special and expensive steps to build in special insulation on the roof so that our hot summers are made better bearable.
Concern for the Environment
14. We are concerned that we do not pollute the environment in any way. At our new factory we have installed sound damping generators to overcome our one area of weakness. As a commitment to a cleaner environment we are installing a part back up of solar power even though all conventional economic wisdom advises against it. Our present target is 3KW and we hope to increase it progressively over the years.
15. In order to conserve energy we have insulated the roof of our factory with 2 inch thick Styrofoam sheets before finally flooring it. This reduces the heat in summers and less energy is used for cooling purposes.
16. Water is conserved through a rain water harvesting system installed at our premises.
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