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Newsletter – May 2004

SPECIALE EDITION

New orders... new customers

An entrepreneur's main concern is to have a well filled order book and regularly finding new customers. "Mission: Textile Clients" is the solution to your prospection of potential clients; the experience has been performed many times, the process is well structured and Groupe Textile is pleased to work with Drakkar Marketing Global towards the development of your company's potential. Details >>

Industriel networking... and additional orders

Study on business opportunities in the textile/garment sector, Gate Mode Textile has mandated the C.T.T. Group and Groupe Textile for an important commercial research project which consists in identifying business opportunities... Details >>

China... more orders

China - latest news... A textile delegation from Canada is preparing to visit Shanghaï from August 26th to September 3rd 2004, for the CINTE TechTextil China fair. The primary objective of these 25 Canadian companies is first and foremost to sell their products, visit textile industries and make numerous business contacts. We, at Groupe Textile, had published last February a long article on China and we feel that instead of fearing China, we must consider this as a natural market expansion. We have therefore decided to join in this project with the C.T.T. Group and take advantage, like you, of this structured organization which is partly subsidized by the Federal and Provincial governments. All aboard! It's still time to register! Details : 1- CINTE Letter of Invitation / 2- Reservation form

Rectuitment

TEXTILE ENGINEERS AND PROJECT MANAGERS
Regularly, we evaluate at Groupe Textile the employment trends in our sector. In 2003, we had completed a research, an internal study which went back to the first years of the Textile Institute in 1945. We had also made findings on textile employment by comparing year 1970 to years 2002-2003. For the last two years, we have seen major changes and noted the following:

Companies are more and more changing and those who are succeeding are the ones hiring textile engineers and project managers who are innovating with new products by researching and developing.
The younger textile graduates are too few and not yet ready to take over from the older grads who are retiring. So companies are hiring non textile specialists to fill, for example, Human Resources and Sales & Marketing positions. When we need textile engineers however, we often need to go abroad to identify the researchers. It is therefore our responsibility at Groupe Textile to take an interest in all textile specialists abroad to validate their interest in working here in Quebec or in Canada, and we are succeeding quite well.

Our consultants - Newcomers

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
We introduced Mr. Jacques Roy from C.J.R.A. last February as our specialist in business development and already, Mr. Roy's services have been used by 6 textile industries, and it is ongoing. To reach him call (450) 263-2992 or contact us at Groupe Textile.

COST PRICE
Our new consultant today held several key positions in the administration of textile companies. She is holder of an MBA and is member of the "Ordre des CMA ". Recognized for her entrepreneurship, leadership, influence, and self-sufficiency, we consider her as our resource for cost price estimation. Also, labour agreement negociations, application of state-of-the-art techniques in management accounting such as performance strategic planning, cost by activity, etc.. You must meet her, contact us!

As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Regards,

Laurent & Jeanne