BUSINESS NEWS- JSE-listed apparel and homeware retail giant The Foschini Group (TFG) has expanded its local clothing manufacturing business to SA’s economic hub, with the opening of a new Prestige Clothing factory for the hearing impaired in Hillbrow, Joburg, on Monday.
The Cape Town-based group, which already has three Prestige Clothing factories in the Western Cape and one in KwaZulu-Natal, said the new factory is further evidence of TFG’s drive to create more jobs and grow local manufacturing.
While the Joburg factory is comparatively small in scale to Prestige’s other manufacturing facilities, it is set to create 47 initial jobs and has been set up through a collaborative partnership to create jobs for the hearing impaired.
According to the group, the newly launched factory increases its Prestige Clothing business to five factories, making it the largest local apparel manufacturer in South Africa.
The business unit employs around 2 470 permanent employees.
