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Table of Contents
I- Executive Summary..................................................................................................................................4
II- Legal Matters...........................................................................................................................................7
A. Legal Structure....................................................................................................................................7
B. License, Permits, and Insurance Policies.............................................................................................7
C. External Support..................................................................................................................................8
III- Organization Summary...........................................................................................................................9
A. Company Organizational Structure.....................................................................................................9
B. National Hiring...................................................................................................................................10
C. Founders’ Profiles..............................................................................................................................10
D. Management.....................................................................................................................................11
E. Operating Team’s Profile...................................................................................................................11
IV- Physical Location..................................................................................................................................12
V- Products/Services..................................................................................................................................14
A. Portfolio Composition.......................................................................................................................14
B. Production/Service Delivery/Operation Process...............................................................................14
C. Environmental Impact.......................................................................................................................16
VI- Market Analysis....................................................................................................................................17
A. Market Overview and Sizing..............................................................................................................17
B. Sector Trends.....................................................................................................................................17
C. Target Market Segmentation.............................................................................................................18
D. Competition......................................................................................................................................18
E. Customers..........................................................................................................................................19
F. Suppliers............................................................................................................................................20
G. Timing of Market Entry.....................................................................................................................20
VII- SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................................................21
A. Strengths...........................................................................................................................................21
B. Weaknesses.......................................................................................................................................21
C. Opportunities....................................................................................................................................21
D. Threats..............................................................................................................................................21
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VIII- Strategy..............................................................................................................................................23
A. Action Plan........................................................................................................................................23
B. Marketing Strategy............................................................................................................................23
C. Sales Strategy....................................................................................................................................24
D. Pricing Strategy.................................................................................................................................25
IX- Financial Plan........................................................................................................................................27
A. Funding Requirements......................................................................................................................27
B. Financial information.........................................................................................................................28
References.................................................................................................................................................30
CVs.............................................................................................................................................................31
Financial Statements.................................................................................................................................32
A. Income Statement.............................................................................................................................32
B. Balance Sheet....................................................................................................................................33
C. Cash Flow Statement.........................................................................................................................35
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I- Executive Summary
Fashion industry is one of the growing industries in Kuwait. People are embracing
new trends and fashion rapidly with the rapid speed of globalization. Their demand
for international fashion brand has increase so much that it has motivated local
business to launch their fashion company, ExE is one of them. ExE is a sole
Proprietorship company owned by Elham. It offers its own fashion brand “ExE”
and other famous international fashion brands, that are not available locally. It
manufactures its ExE brand in China and get the international brands from their
respective suppliers. Its products are fashioned in very convenient/flexible manner
that are created according to seasons, categories and brands. Its assortment ranges
from luxurious to casual and cheap and all can be found and bought either from
their online catalogue or from its ExE outlet. It offers both online and offline
platform to their customer to get high quality, well-fashioned and UpToDate
fashion products. Its offline platform includes physical outlet that will be establish
in the first year i.e. by March 2020. In addition, it has collaborated with Korean
cosmetic company that supplies cosmetic products. Finally, it will launch its
physical store in Korea by 2023 to expand its business.
Mission
ExE strive to provide high quality, well-fashioned and UpToDate fashion products
to that meets the world standards and satisfy its customers demand.
Vision
ExE vision is to become top Fashion brand in Asia.
Marketing Strategy
We will be using differentiation strategy for our ExE brand. We will position our
brand as fashion brand that provide high quality, dynamic and market trend fashion
products. We are unique and have differentiated our products as we are launching
four different products every year that covers Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter
seasons. Our well-developed supply chain will be in full action during these
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Promotion: We will be using various channels to promote our ExE brand. These
channels include social media channels like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. In
addition, we will launch yearly LOOKBOOKS, Photobook, Documentary and will
also organize different fashion shows to promote our business effectively. Finally,
we will use pop ups to get new customer and to build long-term relationship with
them.
Market Analysis
Traditionally, Kuwait’s Muslim women would wear hijabs and abayas and men
would use very distinctive Arab headdresses, called ghutras and long thobes, called
dishdasha. However, nowadays people lifestyles have changed, most of them wear
Western fashion clothing – modern girls match colorful hijabs to their layered
apparels, consisting of shirts, blazers and patterned pants and much more. So, ExE
with its fashion brand, will target all such customer specifically the age group from
15 to 35 years, who belong to middle class and upper missile class. In this regard,
the main competitive advantage that ExE will bi having is its unique fashion
brands that would be supplied from china.
Financial Performance
Company is expecting sales of 145,000 KWD in its first year and then 15% growth
in the second year. In the 3rd year ExE will expand and will open its in Korea as
well. The 3rd year sales projection is 200,100 KWD.
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Funding Required
we need total of 350,000 KWD initial investment from KNF. This investment will
be spent in starting ExE Business formally. These expenditures include
establishing physical outlet with office and storage room, designing online
platform and bringing inventories from China.
Team
A. Legal Structure
Since ExE is new company so, it will initiate its business as “sole proprietorship”.
The owner wants to take full control of decision making in the initial years so that
he can make a company, a giant and successful company. Once the company
sustained itself and started meeting its targets, ExE will then go for IPO.
To start a business in Kuwait is not easy. There are number of licenses that a start-
up company must acquire before starting a business. Some of the necessary
licenses are 1) company must be registered under KCCI and MCI. 2) company
must get the commercial license from Ministry of commerce for their business.
In addition to license and permits, having sound insurance policies play vital role
in success of new business. it protects businesses from potential losses which they
couldn’t afford to cover on their own and allows businesses to operate when it
might otherwise be too risky to do so. So, ExE would get KQIC property and
commercial insurance in this regard.
To launch our business under the following laws and policies, we require total
capital of 350,000 KWD. We are looking forward to the full support of KNF in
regard.
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Following is the ExE organizational structure. ExE believe in open cultural system
where ideas are respected, and employees are treated as part of family.
CEO
Inventory Sales
Managor officer
Assistant Driver
We will use both internal and external hiring strategies. External hiring/
outsourcing will be done for managerial level while lower level of staff would be
hired internally. In addition, our employees would be from local area, who got the
better experience of the competitive environment.
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Hiring is not enough; we will continuously polish our employees’ skill through
various training programs and mentorship programs. Initially, these programs will
be internal, and our CEO Elham would train our employees as per the needs and
requirements of the situation.
C. National Hiring
We would hire most of our employees from local community i.e. Kuwaitis. This is
due the fact that Kuwaitis are more familiar to the local trends and environment
and in a better position to work with our company. Moreover, laws are quiet relax
when it comes to Kuwaitis as compare to foreigners. Finally, this approach would
reduce the unemployment rate in Kuwait.
D. Founders’ Profiles
E. Management
i- Describe the management team, excluding the founders mentioned before, needed to
run the business
Position Brief Job Education/ Experience Basic Benefits/ Annual Date and
(Nationality) Description/ Qualifications Annual bonus Increase period of
(Full/ Part time) Salary hiring
ii- In case your company is already operational, highlight any changes happened within
the management team in the last 3 years. If any changes happened, elaborate on the
reason behind the change and the impact on the business
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IV- Products/Services
A. Portfolio Composition
Name Description Life cycle stage Development Average %
stage contribution to total
sales over 5 years
Streetwear’s Casual clothing Introduction Finalized
Internationa Int. brands not Introduction Finalized
l brands available
locally
ExE brand Customer Introduction Depending
insight
Cosmetics Korean Brand Introduction Development
International Kuwait
ExE Outlet
brands Market
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ExE will mainly be dealing with two kind of inventories/Products. First is ExE
fashion brand which will manufactured in China and will shipped to Kuwait
thereafter. Secondly, we will be offering international fashion brands that are not
available locally. Finally, we would be displaying Cosmetic products which will
provided by our Korean partner.
B. Environmental Impact
ExE is not only offering quality fashion products, but also contributing to the
society and its environment. ExE is working on zero waste of pollution inside
Kuwait. Moreover, it will give employment opportunity to local people and will
play its role in decreasing the unemployment from the country
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V- Market Analysis
A report by AT Kearney in ranked Kuwait third in Retail Apparel Index, and said
the capital, Kuwait City, was well on track to become “a fashion hub” in the
middle east region. Real estate consultant CBRE also came to a similar conclusion
in one of its recent reports, saying that Kuwait attracted more new retailers and
wholesaler than any other country in the world except India and Turkey, and that
Kuwait City was among the top five Middle Eastern cities leading the mid-range
fashion sector.
Kuwait is becoming one of the most fashionable Middle East country. It’s worlds
fourth richest country in the world on the basis per capita income. Its per capita
income is 25305 KWD. Its fashion industry is at boom. The Growth of this
industry is growing in double figures. Ans Kuwait is becoming the leading fashion
market in middle eastern countries.
G. Sector Trends
Traditionally, Kuwait’s Muslim women would wear hijabs and abayas and men
would use very distinctive Arab headdresses, called ghutras and long thobes, called
dishdasha. However, nowadays people lifestyles have changed, most of them wear
Western fashion clothing – modern girls match colorful hijabs to their layered
apparels, consisting of shirts, blazers and patterned pants. Guys select original and
branded sneakers, jeans and fashionable jumpers for their clothing apparel. All
modern fashion details are loved and purchased in Kuwait.
Our main target market are young adults and youth of the country. They age rang
that we would be targeting is from 15 year to 35 years. It’s this segment, who are
desperately looking for new fashion and international brand. And it’s this segment
who not only buy from physical store and outlets, but also do online shopping. So,
we would target both men and women belonging to this segment of our target and
would provide them with our own clothing brand and international brand that are
not available locally.
Our 1st year goal also includes creating small clothing line like merch. In addition,
we would launch online store along with physical office and storage room.
Similarly, In the 1st year we would make our own brand and would market it via
different channels, most importantly through Instagram. In addition, we would also
be reselling the streetwear brands. These streetwear brands are international brands
that are not available locally. Finally, we will collaborate with other local brands
for a line up and pop up and would market our brand and would increase our
market share as much as possible.
Year 2
ExE will create new clothing line for both Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer seasons
in the second year of its business. In addition, it will Collaborate with accessories
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brand like Gentle Monster and other similar brands. Exe will also target the Korean
market in its second year and will analysis the potential opportunities in that
market. Finally, ExE will launch its Mini Magazine, LOOKBOOK x2 and will
arrange Fashion show x2 in the same year.
Year 3
Our 3rd year will start with new and wonderful designs for both Fall/Winter and
Spring/Summer seasons. With the success of last year LOOKBOOK, this time we
will go further and will introduce 2 more LOOKBOOKs along with a Photobook.
This year goal also includes looking for unique and limited-edition pieces for the
Archive i.e. Luxurious fashion cloths. In addition, we will now formally launch our
business in Korea by opening a small store in Korea. To make our Korean store
more successful, we will collaborate with Korean and Japanese streetwear brands.
Finally, we will make short movie/documentary of our Business in order penetrate
our business and catch more and more customers.
Year 4
ExE 4rth year will bring new fashion streetwear and international brands for both
Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer seasons. ExE will continue making new addition
of LOOKBOOK, Photobook and Fashion shows. In addition, this year ExE will
Participate in Seoul fashion week in Kuwait to attract more and more customers
and to increase its customer shares. Finally, we will go further and will hire an
influential personality to be our brand ambassador in order to penetrate our
business more and more.
Year 5
In the 5th year, our main goal would be to sustain all the initiative that so far, we
have taken. We will continue bringing new fashion streetwear and international
brands for both Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer seasons. We will launch new
addition of our LOOKBOOK, Photobook and a new documentary. In addition, this
time, we will make two fashion shows and will design our fashion week in Kuwait.
Finally, we will pop up in both Kuwait and Korea for an exclusive collection.
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J. Customers
In the first year, our potential customers will only be local Kuwaitis lying in age
group of 15 to 35 years. Along with It, we will also be targeting online customers
who could be parents or young adults. After 1st year, we are going to expand our
target market by including Korean market as our potential customers. Our strategy
would remain same in Korea as well i.e. targeting the age group of 15 to 35 years.
In addition to the age group criterion for our target market, income level will be
another determinant of our target market. So, in this case, we will mainly target
middle and upper middle class of Kuwait. And especially targeting the Millennials
because they are heavily influence by new western trends and are more brand
conscious.
Yet another factor which would keep our customer intact and loyal to us is our
differentiation strategy. Our customer would not get such high quality, well
fashioned and unique brand anywhere else in the Kuwait. So, the switching cost
will be too high for our customer. Hence, we will be having long term relationship
with our customers.
K. Suppliers
When it comes fashion industry of Kuwait, suppliers have very little control over
the market. Inventories are mostly supplied from China and Europe. So, ExE could
easily use their supply chain to bring product from various markets to Kuwait.
Since ExE brands will be manufactured in China, there would be very little power
of supplier in this case. There are numerous suppliers and plenty of cheap labors in
China who are desperately looking for work. So, ExE would easily ship its
inventories from China.
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With the expansion of our business in Korea, we would need few new suppliers.
These suppliers would include: first, ExE brand itself will be supplier for Korean
outlet and it will be supplying inventories directly from china. Secondly, we would
target Japanese supplier as well to get inventories at Korean Fashion store.
Our Physical store will be constructed till March 2020. Our agreements with
Chinese manufacturers will be finalize February 2020. So, we will start its business
from April 2020. And our 1st product, through which we will formally launch our
business, would be 2020 summer collections.
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The following outlines the most important and significant strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats that exist in our environment. Our objective is to leverage
our strengths and to take advantage of the opportunities the present in market,
develop those areas that are weak, and devise contingency plans to address threats
if this should become a reality.
A. Strengths
M. Weaknesses
Low initial investment
Low brand loyalty
N. Opportunities
Growing Fashion industry
70% youth population (our Target market)
O. Threats
Threat of new entry
Political instability (both in china and Kuwait)
VII- Strategy
A. Action Plan
Following are the key milestones/decision that ExE would take in the coming 5-
years
Year 1
Construct and design ExE outlet with office and a storage room
Launch online platform
Create a small clothing line like a merch
Year 2
B. Marketing Strategy
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We will be using differentiation strategy for our ExE brand. We will position our
brand as fashion brand that provide high quality, dynamic and market trend fashion
products. We are unique and have differentiated our products as we are launching
four different products every year that covers Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter
seasons. Our well-developed supply chain will be in full action during these
seasons to meet the customers demand in time.
Launching new brands are not enough, they must be effectively promoted
throughout the year. ExE would promote its product through the following
channels.
Instagram: Instagram is a popular and growing social media channel. It allows
users to upload 15-second promotional clips/video. So, will fully utilize this
channel as it’s the most popular social media channel in Kuwait. So, by using
various filters, ExE will convey our promotional message to our potential
customers.
LOOKBOOK: Another marketing tool that ExE will be using to promote its
business is “LOOKBOOK”. LOOKBOOK is becoming a great tool to share
stories and to get customers excited and inspired. LOOKBOOKS serves as
building brand awareness, encouraging word of mouth, educating and increasing
sales of the company. So, ExE will launch its LOOKBOOKS every year to
promote its brand.
Pop ups: to promote our Online and offline platforms pop up ads will also be used
as our promotional strategy. We will collaborate with famous Café, Restaurant or
food company to get this done. It will not only promote our brand but also will
provide the customer insights.
Q. Sales Strategy
We will be using both offline and online platform to sell our fashion products. We
would reach our customer via different channels. These channels include social
media channels, most dominantly Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. In addition,
we will set pop ups every second month to increase our sales. Besides it, we
organize our yearly fashion shows to boost our sales.
To satisfy our customer needs and wants, we are setting various distribution
channels/platform to make the availability of our fashion product. These
distribution channels include our online platform from which customer could order
directly and would get the product at their doorstep. Secondly, our ExE outlet is
yet another distribution channel to facilitate our customers. Finally, by using
Fashion shows and pop ups we would target specific group of people and would
make them our long-term customers.
Sales projections:
Product/Service Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Streetwear (ExE) 25,000 KWD 28,750 KWD 34,500 KWD 43,125 KWD 51,750
ExE brand 35,000 40,250 48,300 60,375 72,450
Cosmetics 15,000 17,250 20,700 25,875 31,050
Luxurious 30,000 34,500 41,400 51,750 62,100
International brand 40,000 46,000 55,200 69,000 82,800
Total 145,000 KWD 166,750 KDW 200,100 KWD 250,125 KWD 300,150 KWD
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R. Pricing Strategy
As our target customer are middle class and upper middle-class group, so we will
be charging market competitive pricing. Along with it, for exclusive category, we
will be charging premium prices. Finally, for international brands, we would be
charging the same prices as been charges by International brands.
To sell the off-season cloths, we would be offering different types of offers and
discounts. These discounts will very according to the type of fashion product and
market. These sales will mainly be promoted via pop ups and fashion shows.
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A. Funding Requirements
Following amounts will be spend in 1st year on initial investments which includes
setting up the storage room and office, cost of manufacturing inventory from
China, Inventories from International brands and finally Marketing and operation
expenses.
S. Financial information
we are expecting 145,000 KWD sales in 1st year of our business, as already been
mentioned in the sales projection. Moreover, we are expecting 18% of Profit
margin in the 1st year of our operations. Which means our net profit would be
36,250 KWD (145,000*25%) in first year. We are expecting that our profit margin
would increase by 15% in the next four years and the total return on investment at
the end of 5th year would be 369,366 KWD (36,250 + 47940 + 66,153 + 95048 +
131,225). We are having high probability of mentioned result as there is very high
growth in the fashion industry and the growth will increase even more in the
coming years.
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References
https://www.marketresearch.com/Global-Research-Data-Services-v3891/Clothing-Kuwait-Size-
Development-Forecasts-10718357/
https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/country/k/kuwait/KWT.pdf
https://www.qickwt.com/about-2/
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/kuwait-s-retail-sector-trend-setting-445695.html
http://www.wow-wholesale.com/kuwait-clothing-wholesale
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CVs
Attach the CVs of the team members
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Financial Statements
Fill in the below financial statements
A. Income Statement
Period Forecast period
Start of period 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
End of period 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue 145,000 166,750 200,100 250,125 300,150
Cost 50,000 55,000 68,000 80,000 89,000
Gross Profit 100,000 117750 132,100 170,125 211,150
Staff Cost 45000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000
General &
Administrative Expenses 2,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,300
Sales & Marketing
Expenses 1,030 1,500 2,200 3,000 3,500
Other Expenses 1,000 1,200 1,500 2,000 2,500
EBITDA 50,470 62,050 80,900 117,125 160,350
Depreciation &
Amortization 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000
EBIT 48,470 60,050 78,900 115,125 158,350
Finance Cost 5,832 3,650 1,030 3,304 3,968
EBT 42,647 56,400 77,827 111,821 154382
Tax Provisions (KFAS,
Zakat, other) 6,397 8,460 11,674 16,773 23,157
Net Profit 36,250 47,940 66,153 95,048 131,225
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B. Balance Sheet
Period Forecast period
Start of period 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
End of period 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Assets
Current Assets
Cash & Bank Balance 284,000 395,000 415,000 440,000 480,000
Accounts Receivables 8,647 9,000 12,000 16,000 18,000
Inventories 5,000 7,000 11,500 11,000 13,000
Total current assets 297,647 411,000 438,500 467,000 511,000
Non-current Assets
Property Plant &
Equipment 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000
Other Fixed Assets 35,000 35,000 47,000 47,000 55,000
Total non-current Assets 95,000 95,000 107,000 107,000 115,000
Total assets 392,647 506,000 545,500 574,000 626,000
Liabilities & Equities
Current liabilities
Accounts payable 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
Tax Payable 6397 8460 11,674 16,773 23,157
Total Current Liabilities 41,397 43,460 46,674 51,773 58,157
Non-current liabilities
Long-term Portion of
Loan 315,000 280,000 245,000 210,000 175,000
Total non-current
liabilities 315,000 280,000 245,000 210,000 175,000
Shareholders’ Equity
Equity 178,060 187,673 217,179 261,618
Net Profit 36,250 47,940 66,153 95,048 131,225
Total Liabilities &
Equity 392,647 506,000 545,500 574,000 626,000
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