Arjun Mitra Email & Phone Number

Delhi, India

New Delhi

Farm to the wardrobe!Pushing the end use for sustainable textiles. Hand spun, hand woven- a philosophy and a life style.Direct link down the supply chain, with farmer, the hand spinner, and weaver.

New Delhi Area, India

Head of Sourcing and Production Casa Paradox/Casa POP. High End Luxury Furniture Brand of India, going International. Heading production for the entire range of furniture.

New Delhi, India

Key achievements: - Grew Business and Client sourcing across UK, Canada, US/South American Markets & Scandinavian CountriesKey Responsibilities -Sourcing Factories for Production . Organizing& supervising quality checks and controls

New Delhi, India

The Venus group has over 40 years of experience exporting garments2600 machines, in-house knitting, processing, embroidery, yarn dyeing, garment dyeing,fabric and placement printingKey responsibilities:-Working alongside the CMD to streamline materials procurement and management-Took charge of Venus Hussainpura facility (600 machines) Later took charge of a second unit – Glaze facility (400 machines) – and ran both simultaneouslyKey achievements:-Introduced fashion women’s wear customers to manufacture at Venus-Achieved quality levels well above pre-existing standards-Maximised production output against tighter control of costs

New Delhi Area, India

Surgery to re-join severed Achilles tendon (injury occurred while playing rugby)resulted in severely infected wound. Infection reached the point of near amputation.Rehabilitation included two further corrective surgeries and nine months on crutches withdaily visits to hospital for treatment

New Delhi

Key responsibilities: Management of overall business financial performance, product developmentprocurement, marketing, merchandising, planning and productionKey achievements:-Growth in turn over terms from USD $1 million to USD $6 million in the first year-Achieving turn over figure of USD $12 million in 2010-2011- Started in-house computer embroidery machines on unit generated finance in the first year-Streamlined procedures to reduce wastage and increase productivity-Brought the unit into profitability for the first time since its inception in 2005

New Delhi Area, India

V&S is a vertical facility with in-house knitting, fabric processing and stitching capacityKey responsibilities:-Head of independent 700 machine factory-Management of marketing, production, cost control and deliveryKey achievements:- Doubled capacity in machine and turn over terms within two years- Became the largest PVH women’s wear vendor in the world

Bangalore India

Key responsibilities:- Head of knits marketing and merchandising- Direct reports: merchandising, fabric sourcing, planning, production and quality headsKey achievements:-Increased turn over from USD $15 million to USD $23 million

New Delhi Area, India & Kathmandu

Key responsibilities:- Heading the knit division as an independent profit centre- Responsible for marketing, merchandising, production, delivery and sourcing- Started manufacturing base for knits in Kathmandu with 3000 units a day capacityKey achievements:- Achieved turnover of USD $2 million

New Delhi

Own venture manufacturing and shipping from NepalLi & Fung one of the major buyers

New Delhi Area, India & Kathmandu

Key responsibilities:- Started the knit producing unit at Gurgaon-Responded to new area of growth driven by demand for a multiple product line

New Delhi

Entry into the garment industryStarted offering packed shipments and graduated to exports