Producing a Product Range: Perivale Gütermann Threads

T. A. J. Nicholson

Chapter 9 in Managing Manufacturing Operations: A Casebook, 1978, pp 121-136 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Perivale Gütermann Limited is the fourth largest manufacturer of sewing threads in the United Kingdom with a sales turnover of £3 million per annum, following English Sewing Cotton, J. & P. Coats Ltd, and Barbour Threads. English Sewing Cotton and J. & P. Coats together control 90 per cent of the thread market. The company is located in Perivale, Middlesex and manufactures a range of threads for industrial and domestic use. It has 300 staff of whom 130 are machine operators. The distribution operates through a warehouse at Perivale in the factory premises and through depots at Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.

Keywords: Material Control; Stock Level; Production Order; Computer Section; Factory Premise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15861-4_9

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