Mo’s business network was founded in Campania. CAM: with this the fashion supply chain goes online. The founding deed was signed, for the first time in Italy, by a large number of subjects and put companies, institutions, universities and research centers to work on the same project. Promoters include Confindustria Campania, Industrial Union of Naples, Uniservizi, Campania Digital Innovation Hub, Rete Confindustria, Experimental Station for the Leather and Tanning Materials Industry, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, CIS, Interporto Campano. So far, 19 companies have joined the Network, all from Campania _ including CAM.PEL, Giada, Enis, ISAIA E ISAIA, KOCCA, ERRELAB and many more _ but the list of members is already growing and will soon reach one hundred members. The common goal is, in a critical phase for the fashion and textile clothing sector, and in a historical period of great economic, political and social change, to identify new strategies.
The basis for the birth of this new business network was created by the sector table established by the Region of Campania, MODEC, in which the signatories of the Network participate, and which currently represents a single interlocutor for the sector. The Campania region is expected to allocate special funding for new business networks, as is the case with established districts in other sectors, such as goldsmithing and aerospace. «We hope that the new Council will want to continue working on this path», hopes Luigi Giamundo, president of the Fashion section of the Industrial Union of Naples and promoter of the Network led by the Joint Agency.
What is the contract network? Contract Networks are a form of collaboration between companies that allow you to share resources, skills and opportunities without losing legal and economic autonomy. This provides greater competitiveness for individual businesses, most of which are small in scale, allowing them to access resources, accumulate skills and gain greater contracting power. It also enables administrative simplification and flexibility and offers opportunities for innovation and development.
Therefore, a new tool, which serves an important sector for the Campanian economy. Fashion in the region encompasses around 22,000 micro, small, medium and large businesses, including textiles, clothing, footwear and leather goods. The production ranges from superior products to production of international luxury brands; private label production for major national and international distributors; there are more than 10,000 retail outlets in Italy and abroad headquartered in Campania. It is a supply chain that has advantages in flexibility and diversification of production and shows an overall turnover estimated at more than 20 billion, with 110,000 employees (9% of the national figure and 50% of the figure in the South). Supply chains are currently being hit by a structural crisis and require a new vision to compete in international markets.
«The network was created to overcome individualism and create an integrated ecosystem that brings together the advantages of Campania’s fashion supply chain. The main goal is not just to share services, but to build a strong identity through the joint brand ‘Mo.CAM.’, an indispensable tool to increase competitiveness in international markets, drive technological innovation and attract new business opportunities that are difficult for individual companies to intercept,” said Giamundo.
