Eskimo Fashion Knitwear

News & Events

Expansion of Business

The Board of Directors of Eskimo Fashion Knitwear (Pvt) Ltd., recently decided to invest USD 870,000 in a garment factory at Punani in Batticaloa District under the North and East development program of the government. The agreement was signed with Board of Investment in Sri Lanka in the presence of the Executive Director Legal.

The expected direct employment generation from this project will be over one hundred at the initial stage and that will further be increased with the expansion. The construction will commence in mid of 2010 and commercial operation is scheduled to start prior to 31st March 2011

The 10th Anniversary of our Pallekele Factory

Our factory in Pallekele recently celebrated the 10th successful year in operation. Having a human capital of more than 550 in Pallekele, the factory considerably adds value to the total annual production. By effectively following the guidelines of 5S and industries best practices in production the factory has achieved major milestones in efficiency throughout the last decade.

Eskimo Employee awarded again

Mr. J. G. Neil Priyantha was awarded as the Best Player and the Best Bowler in the all island "P.Saravanamuttu Trophy" for Cricket recently. Mr. Priyantha is also a key player in the Eskimo Cricket team. We congratulate Mr. Priyantha for his extracurricular achievement.

Appearing in the photo from left Mr. Trevine Peiris - Personnel Manager Eskimo, Mr. J. G. Neil Priyantha, Mr. Deshan Devasayagam - HRM celebrating the achievement.

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Eskimo Wins Mercantile Cup "B” Division

The Eskimo football team emerged champions in the Mercantile Cup "B” Division Football tournament, playing against HSBC Bank in the finals held on 12th September in Colombo, conducted by the Mercantile Football Association. The football team comprises M. Sameera Fernando – Captain, Shehan Fernando, Manimaran Krishnan,Chandra Kumar, U.G. Chaminda, Manoj Krishnan, Sudesh Fernando, Roshan Emmanuel,G.D.P. Wickramasinghe, Suneth Ranwala and Jagath Appuhamy.

The employees of all categories are very keen to compete in the various sports that are pursued as an extra curricular activity whilst keeping up with the fast pace of their general functions within the Organisation. The Management in turn promotes and encourages active participation by extending their fullest support to the Eskimo Sports Club to achieve this success.

Some of the sports that the Sports club is engaged in are - Badminton, cricket, volleyball, netball, table tennis, elle and of course football.

Technology Advancements

We have recently added four brand new multigauge knitting machines type Stoll CMS 822TC. With these additions we are now in a position to offer fully fashioned knitted caps in Gauges 3.5 , 5 and 7. A new M1 design station has also been added. Compared to our Sirix this system makes programming new styles faster and far more simple.

The machines are running well and show great potential. We will be offering more styles in fully fashioned as well as intarsia patterns in our next range. In addition we are recruiting an additional programmer/technican from India to train more local staff and speed up programming of new styles.

In addition to the investments being made to develop human resources the Company has decided to invest in 6 CMS flat knitting machines of 7 gg and 2 CMS flat knitting machines of 5 gg. With this investment in place Eskimo’s flat knitting capacity will be enhanced by approximately 30%.

The programmes initiated with our partners, Sage Training of Australia, focused on leadership and team building development programmes across all levels within the organisation. As part of this ongoing process a 4 day programme was held in October and November 2005 with the objective of agreeing a leadership style that will get improved results and ensure a strong commitment to Eskimo’s planned business objectives.

We will continue to upgrade the facilities in the Dyehouse with the objective of improving our service capabilities to our customers. This project was started in 2005 with the installation of a second Colorcombi dyeing machine and the Barco Sedo computerized controlling system and completion is scheduled for end 2006.

As we come to the end of another year which has seen many new initiatives being taken by the Company. We must take this opportunity to recognise the hard work and support extended by all members of the Eskimo team. To this end we organised an excursion to Kandy which took place in December 2005 for all the employees of the Company.

Out Bound Training

The Company has made a strategic decision to invest significant amounts of time and resources, financial and otherwise to identify and address the training needs of employees working for the Company. With this in mind the Company opened a new Training Centre in September 2005.

Board of Investment of Sri Lanka

Eskimo was awarded “The Green Channel Facility“ by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka in appreciation of its past excellent performance in complying with BOI regulations. This award was only given to the top 50 companies from over 2000 Board of Investment approved projects currently operating in Sri Lanka.

In practical terms this facility means that all incoming imports and outgoing exports will be fast tracked. As such Eskimo will not experience delays in clearing imports and the export of finished goods.