Julsport Garments and Uniform Center is a tailoring business in Digos City that offers school uniforms, sports uniforms, and clothing repairs. It has faced several challenges including rising costs, new printing technologies, and relocating due to road widening. However, it remains stable due to garments being a basic necessity. While production has slowly declined since 2017 due to newer printing methods, the owner aims to adopt new technologies over time. The business model relies on contract labor that varies with production demands and seasons.
Julsport Garments and Uniform Center is a tailoring business in Digos City that offers school uniforms, sports uniforms, and clothing repairs. It has faced several challenges including rising costs, new printing technologies, and relocating due to road widening. However, it remains stable due to garments being a basic necessity. While production has slowly declined since 2017 due to newer printing methods, the owner aims to adopt new technologies over time. The business model relies on contract labor that varies with production demands and seasons.
Julsport Garments and Uniform Center is a tailoring business in Digos City that offers school uniforms, sports uniforms, and clothing repairs. It has faced several challenges including rising costs, new printing technologies, and relocating due to road widening. However, it remains stable due to garments being a basic necessity. While production has slowly declined since 2017 due to newer printing methods, the owner aims to adopt new technologies over time. The business model relies on contract labor that varies with production demands and seasons.
OF JULSPORT GARMENTS AND UNIFORM CENTER I. PROFILE
• Julsport Garments and Uniform Center is a tailoring
and manufacturing garments owned by Mr. Julius L. Lovitos. They have two branches located at Lapu- lapu Extension, Zone III, Digos City and the other at 1st Crumb St. Zone II Digos City.
• Julsport founded year 2015 at Rizal Avenue near LYR
Marketing, transferred to 1st Crumb at 2017 and open the second branch last November 2018. • Julsport Garments and Uniform Center offers variety of tailoring services including school uniform, sports uniform, customize designs, clothing repair and they also offer printing services in connection to their sportswear. II. Pestle Analysis A. Political • The City Government of Digos in partnership with DPWH implemented road widening and Julsport Garments and Uniform Center needed to transfer business location. • The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) regulates the taxation that is highly concerned of all businesses out there as well as of the Julsport Garments and Uniform Center which they are obliged to follow. • As of 2019 aside from his annual tax he also pays 12% withholding tax and it is added to his yearly expenses. B. Economic
Amidst from rising inflation rates Julsport Garments
and Uniform Center remain its business stable because garments is human basic necessity, even if the cost of its product is slowly affected by attributes people will still conformed because it is needed. C. Social
• Julsport Garments and Uniform Center is a service
oriented establishment, as its nature is people it has to abide with the customers satisfaction. • As of 2019 we have a total of 81 learning centers in Digos City (Philippines-street.openalfa.com) and out of 50 students here in UM, 95% choose a tailored uniform than buying from RTW, reasons are comfort, quality and fitness to individual measurement. • The owner stated that their customers are majority males, this is not just because of their sportswear line; he says school uniform costumers are dominantly males. As of city population info male has the greater number with the population rate of 50.6% than females with age distribution of 37% 10-29 years old as of 2015. • As they maintain regular clients, referrals from their clients help them to build an even larger customer base. D. Technological
• Julsport Garments and Uniform Center uses high-
speed sewing machines. • They have 11 machines in 1st Crumb branch and 8 machines in the Lapu-Lapu branch raging from single thread to 4 thread singer sewing machines, which makes them highly competitive in the garment industry to produce guaranteed quality output in the city. • They also have rubberized sportswear printing. • Though they have a stable production since Julsport was founded a slow decline of production is evident from 2017 to 2019 due to availability of sublimation printing in the market which becomes the trend of printing process as of today. • Though the owner aims to provide this kind of technology but because of its high cost he became a sub contract to be the jersey maker and have it printed from the other printing shop to maintain the number of production of the business. Comparison of sport wears Printing Price:
Sublimation Rubberize Printing Printing
Tee 380.00 550.00
Set 680.00 1,100.00
E. Legal
• Tailors and dress makers come and go and business
owner Mr. Lovitos stated that he do not have any regular employee because the nature of the business falls of contract or “pakyawan” bases, salary depends on numbers of outputs and number of employees depends on season.
• The common issues in every tailoring shop are
complains in fitting and size adjustments and since the business is service oriented they have to do as customers specifications. F. Environmental
• Enrolment season is the busiest; May to August is the
period where demand for school uniforms reaches its pick. To be able to cope up with the demand, hiring additional manpower and extending working hours for the employees is implemented while jerseys or sportswear is during July – December every year.
• Proper disposal of textile waste are 90% recyclable.
Scrap cuts or “retaso” are sold to rug makers and tiny scraps are collected by the CENRO. Business location determines the price of rentals. It adds to their operating expenses of the business owner but does not directly affect the production.
RENT DIFFERENCES:
2015 2017 2019
Rizal Avenue, Digos City 12,000 1st Crumb, Digos City 6,000 Lapu-lapu Extension 10,000 Digos City III. Conclusion
• Social factor plays a crucial role affecting
Julsport Garments and Uniform Center since they are into customer base business.