Timothy Armstrong

Consulting: Mostly short term technical projects 2010 Feasibility study for new apparel industrial park in North Haiti (IADB) 2010 Review of an apparel factory investment proposal in central Haiti (Dexis) 2008 Review of USAID – Garment Industrial Productivity Center (GIPC) Cambodia 2007 Indonesia End Market study for garments (USAID) 2007 Review of ample supply denim provision in AGOA IV (USAID) 2006 USAID review of apparel labour rates in SE Asia report (USAID)

Trading in surplus stocks and garments from Bangladesh, Philippines, Cambodia and China for the South African market and since inception in 2004, we have become one of the biggest shippers of discount apparel shippers to the South African market. I focus on finding new clients and travel frequently to South Africa.

• Managed training center for mass industrial sewing • Review of existing training, add-on of new courses and transition to a local management • Researched and wrote a 3 year strategic plan to make it sustainable • Coaching of the trainers in advanced training delivery • Lectures in garment best practice thinking / development of standards and delivery practices • Liaison with other regional training centres

Who am I?: I have worked overseas for 20 years and always in the apparel/ textile business – firstly in thread with a British company and then followed by a decade in Hong Kong running an offshore apparel firm with stints in Africa and the Middle East where I started up and ran garment factories.