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EPIC GROUP: The relentless drive for continuously improving Processes, People, and Planet
The company won in the Apparel category at the recently concluded Designed in Hong Kong Awards digital, we can speed up approval times and do our bit for the environment. Our micro-factories, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Hawassa, Ethiopia, are agile production facilities with shorter production lines, multi-skilled operators, and advanced technology in terms of equipment and digitalization. Keeping up with Industry 4.0 trends, our operations are supported by the latest digital innovations. Productivity improves through real-time data collection and automation, which enables us to pursue our quest for continuous improvement. Our sustainable endeavors cover measurable reduction of waste, chemicals, green-housegases, energy, and water usage. These facilities will be fully operational by 2022.
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or over 50 years, Epic Group has been a key player in the apparel industry first as a major textile trading house, then as a leader in sourcing quality fabrics, and since 2005 as a state-of-the-art manufacturing company with facilities in Bangladesh, Jordan, Vietnam, and Ethiopia. We are dedicated to seeking out ever higher standards in everything we do, from world-class apparel manufacturing and design services to innovative machinery that enables us to reach increasingly better environmental sustainability targets. By combining speed, efficiency, technology, design, and innovation we meet everchanging market trends and our customers’ demands with unfailing reliability. Our services include cutting-edge design studios in New York, London, and Hong Kong to help turn your fashion ideas into a manufacturing reality, plus other value-added services. Over the decades we have built up a solid and loyal, international, customer base founded on our commitment to partnerships, mutual trust, and professional respect.
initiatives by creating factories of the future and an advanced warehouse; supplemented by sustainable practices. To turn your fashion concepts into a physical reality, we use tools such as V-stitcher and Lotta to provide digital designs on-site, plus designers on hand who can work with you in real-time to make any pattern changes on the spot. We also have best-in-class digital technology to enable Digital Sampling and Approval. This near-life-like digital innovation also enables us to reduce the carbon footprint of rounds of physical samples that are traditionally shipped globally. By making sampling more
PEOPLE: Based out of factories in Asia and Africa, or offices in Europe and the USA our people work tirelessly to artfully create the beautiful apparel that we supply to our renowned customers every day. With nearly 30,000 people, their diversity, strength, and passion for excellence put Epic Group at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation in every function of the organization. People perform better when they feel empowered, so we help our people grow through technical & leadership upskilling programs, financial autonomy (mobile banking), and carefully guided career progression. Our Workers’ Council offers a solid infrastructure for everyone to voice their opinion within the organization.
PROCESSES: We are undertaking transformational
We are dedicated to seeking higher standards from world-class apparel manufacturing and design services to innovative machinery that enables us to reach increasingly better environmental sustainability targets 28
HONG KONG BUSINESS | Q3 2021
