Striving for “a stable and sustainable Textile and Garment brand in the domestic and global markets,...”, the Party Committee and Board of Directors of the Company have adopted innovative solutions to improve its production and business efficiency, contributing to maintaining its role as the best supplier of products and services in the textile, dyeing, printing, garment, and mechanical engineering industries for national defence and security, and participating in domestic and foreign markets.

Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company No. 7 is an economic, defence and security combined enterprise, specialising in the production and trading of textiles, dyeing, printing, and garment products, supplying parts of military uniform for the Military and textile and garment products for domestic and international markets.

Leaders of Military Region 7 check products made by the Company

In recent years, the company is facing several difficulties, namely: the scarcity of input materials; fluctuating market prices; reduced purchase power, and increasingly fierce competition in the textile and garment industry. To make it worse, the stringent criteria for “green”, sustainable, and environmentally friendly production, especially the tariff policies and trade barriers from importing countries, are significantly impacting its production and business operations. However, the company has leveraged its internal strengths, made sound investments, and adopted many innovative and groundbreaking approaches. As a result, its annual targets are all met, or even exceeded: its average revenue reaches nearly 775 billion VND per year, and its per capita incomes reaches nearly 13 million per month. It pays over 38 billion VND in tax to state budget a year. The Textile and Garment 7 brand has been established firmly in the market.

Defining people as the centre of the innovation process and a key factor in enhancing competitiveness and sustainable development, the Company’s Party Committee, Board of Directors, and Management Board focus primarily on building a high-skill workforce. It has shifted from labour management to human resource development to make its staff not only sufficient in quantity but also strong in skills and mindset. The company does not base its strategic recruitment plan only on resumes but also on practical capabilities, emphasising professional skills. Through job fairs and internship programmes, the company collaborates with universities such as, the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, and Ton Duc Thang University to access high-quality human resources and places training order to minimise recruitment costs. In particular, it has partnered with domestic and foreign experts from countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and Italy to install, train, transfer technology, and operates new machinery and equipment.

In the current context, the competitive advantage, adaptability, and sustainable development of businesses depend heavily on the skills and capabilities of their employees. The company pays special attention to evaluating the quality of its output and researching industry development trend to build training procedures for its staff. Implementing this, the company makes a change from theoretical training to practical skills training, focusing on professional skills; encourages its employees to self-study and improve their skills, expertise, and professional ethics. For new employees, emphasis is placed on training in labour regulations, workplace safety; company policies and regulations; business operations; ISO regulations; and specialised training to help them quickly integrate into work.

Leader of the Company participates in trade promotion in an international fair

To ensure a stable workforce both in the short and long term, the Company assigns the right person to the right job according to their strengths and abilities, creating a flexible and favourable working environment that encourages self-learning and self-improvement among managers and workers. Salary is paid basing on the performance of labourers coupled with extra bonuses and competitive benefits to keep them stay. The role of mass organisations is promoted, linking emulation movements and campaigns with the “Determined to Win” emulation movement, together with improving the material and spiritual lives of employees to make them committed and dedicated to their job.

Given the volatile global market, the rapid development of industry, trade, and services, and the ever-increasing demands for product quality and constantly changing designs, the company focuses on breakthroughs in science and technology. To achieve efficiency, it purchases modern industrial machinery to provide partners and customers with the best products and services. It consistently adheres to the economic development orientation combined with national defence, considering this as its goal and direction for sustainable development; proactively seizing opportunities to make breakthroughs. It has built a new weaving factory system, acquired 99 Toyota air-jet weaving machines, etc., to meet the requirements of business expansion, diversify designs, improve product quality, and effectively meet the needs of the Military and the domestic market. Since 2023 to date, it has spent roughly 75 billion VND from its own capital on upgrading machinery, production technology, and facilities with high effectiveness.

Besides boosting production and business, the company focuses on promoting technical innovation and labour emulation movement to motivate its employees to enhance their work efficiency and increase their income. This movement has helped tap into and exploit their potential and creativity. Many projects and initiatives with optimal and rationalised solutions in production and business management have been applied, contributing to increasing productivity, improving product quality and working environment, saving materials, and reducing costs. Since 2023 to date, 12 technical innovations and solutions directly developed by its employees have been approved, including 7 ones being approved by Military Region 7.

Besides human resources and science and technology, the Company places special emphasis on market development and brand management. Its goal is to become one of the top enterprises in the textile and garment industry, use its capital efficiently, and achieve sustainable development. Accordingly, in recent years, it has focused on maintaining traditional partners and markets while developing new ones both at home and abroad. It strengthens cooperation through joint venture with its partners to leverage their capabilities, increase revenue and profits. It applies appropriate cooperation methods to provide economic benefits for all parties and minimise risks, thereby making the Textile and Garment 7 (TEGACO-7) brand develop stably and sustainably in the domestic market and go global as the best supplier in the industry.

Its modern machinery

For brand management, it proactively researches and grasps market development trends as well as consumer needs; proactively make business strategies, remains steadfast in its core business with traditional products that have earned its reputation, and get ready for deep integration into the global market. Together with innovations in product design and development, it establishes criteria and certificates of origin, the certifications for environmental protection, energy efficiency, and product safety, and promotes its brand to expand its market. Moreover, it seeks to develop and exploit the value of intellectual property rights for its brands and products, striving to make TEGACO-7 one of the leading enterprises in the industry, maintaining its position in the domestic market and preparing carefully for penetrating into overseas markets.

Furthermore, the Company consistently implements good social policies and welfare benefit for its employees, contributing to fulfilling its noble political obligations – a factor ensuring sustainable development and successful integration. To achieve practical results, it actively participates in social policy work, effectively implementing the campaign of “The entire people unite to build cultural life” linked with the “Armed forces of Military Region 7 join hands to build new rural areas” emulation movement, the “Gratitude Repay” movement, and the policies for the military's rear. Since 2023 to date, it has contributed to the building of 18 houses of gratitude, houses for comrades, and houses of solidarity; participated in the new rural development programme and other support activities in the area where it is based with a total value of over 8 billion VND. In particular, it adopts 5 orphans whose parents died due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a total amount of nearly 6 billion VND, contributing to building a strong people’s heart and mind posture.

As far as the welfare of its employees is concerned, the company always complies with legal regulations regarding wages, bonuses, social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, accident insurance, periodic health check-ups, and occupational disease examinations. Preventive medicine and hazardous allowances are regularly ensured. Other regulations on occupational safety and hygiene, fire prevention, and environmental sanitation under labour law are seriously adhered to, thereby preventing any incident relating to production safety, food safety and hygiene, and traffic safety.

Implementing the above solutions effectively, along with promoting digital transformation in production and business, has maintained the sustainable development of the Company, ensuring its productivity, quality, and efficiency, building a sustainable Textile and Garment 7 brand in the domestic and international markets.

Senior Colonel DINH QUANG NHAN, Deputy General Director of Dong Hai Company, Director of Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company 7