V & M

V&M Plot 47, Sector 5, Industrial Model Township, Manesar Gurgaon 122050, Haryana, India Introduction V&M is a family run Company which was set up in 1995 a little over a year after Col Anil Chawla retired from the Army and as it grew all management was taken over by. Mrs Suman Chawla is very much the hands on and completely focussed proprietor of the Company Since then it has exported leather goods to USA, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan, Australia and Singapore. In the process the Company had, in the pre covid period, provided employment to over 300 employees and developed a pool of versatile manpower trained like its founders by their own experience within the Company. Products The Company manufactures a vast range of leathergoods which cover most items except garments and shoes. The approach has been to do creative rather than mass manufacture work (though that is always welcome and greatly helps) and it is with that in view that we have trained our workers to be versatile rather than specialists. This has, however, been achieved without compromising on quality with the result that we have had remarkable continuity of work with our buyers all these years. While leathergoods has been our main field of activity we have welcomed work in other mediums when our buyers have so demanded. In fact our product that made it to the Vogue 'must have' category was a textile and natural fibre bag made to meet the requirement of our German buyer who designed the item. We also do a lot of work in canvas, jute and hemp. The Company has two overlapping divisions, one, Leather Goods and the other Leather Covered diaries, journals and stationery. The two are complementary. Once work regains pre covid levels and beyond we expect, and plan for, the two to be more organisationally separated. Method of Work From some of our buyers we receive design spec sheets, while some come and design with us. Other buyers select from products created by our own design team. One of our strengths is that we can find sampling and production solutions to most designs sent to us. We have a strong design and sampling team that constantly produces new products. We are honoured to have had long term relationships with our buyers. All our work, except for some very highly specialized processes, is done in-house and we have endeavored to develop our machinery base accordingly. We now have a very diversified and versatile machinery base. Our relations with our suppliers are excellent and we have built long term relationships with them.