This toolkit helps make production management easier for specialist high-end fashion manufacturers. It addresses key issues relevant to their businesses, including growth and productivity.

Key findings

• Learn how to market production services to engage with clients and increase turnover.
• Use our workshop checklist and proposed Production Supervisor job specification.
• Get advice on growing your business and making it more profitable.
• Get guidance for assessing machinery in a manufacturing unit.
• Understand what health and safety means to manufacturing businesses.

The UK fashion industry is one of the leading industries within the UK economy, with a thriving high-end designer sector that is supplied by a small specialist manufacturing sector that deserves to be credited and supported.

This toolkit is part of a set that provides manufacturers and designers with a two-way assurance that both will adhere to a professional set of standards and working practises. It draws on the Fashion Alliance’s recommended Code of Practice, as well as focused engagement, research and collaboration with the fashion sector.