Sector Assessment Report and Sector Growth Strategy for Export Processing Market Development Facility - Fiji
April 2014 Fiji Country Team and Jon Marlow Version 1
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Table of Contents PART ONE: SECTOR ASSESSMENT .............................................................................................. 5 Chapter 1: Pro-poor Growth Potential ............................................................................................... 6 1.1 The Export-Oriented Market System in the Fiji Economy ......................................................... 6 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE URBAN ECONOMY FOR POVERTY REDUCTION ......................................... 7 EXPORT PROCESSING INDUSTRIES ...................................................................................................... 8 FIJI’S GENERALISED EXPORT-ORIENTED MARKET SYSTEM .............................................................. 9 1.2 Export Processing Industries: Products and Markets ............................................................... 11 GARMENT MANUFACTURING ............................................................................................................ 11 SEAFOOD PROCESSING ...................................................................................................................... 13 FOOD PROCESSING ............................................................................................................................ 16 INFORMATION PROCESSING .............................................................................................................. 18 1.3 Growth Trends and Growth Potential of the End Market ........................................................ 19 GARMENT MANUFACTURING ............................................................................................................ 20 SEAFOOD PROCESSING ...................................................................................................................... 20 FOOD PROCESSING ............................................................................................................................ 21 INFORMATION PROCESSING .............................................................................................................. 21 1.4 Relevance for Pro-Poor Growth .................................................................................................. 21 1.5 Relevance for Cross-Cutting Themes .......................................................................................... 22 GENDER EQUALITY ........................................................................................................................... 22 ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS: ‘GREEN FIJI’ .................................. 23 DISABILITY ........................................................................................................................................ 23 Chapter 2: The Market System ......................................................................................................... 24 2.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 24 2.2 Description of System Actors ....................................................................................................... 25 INPUT SUPPLIERS............................................................................................................................... 25 PROCESSORS...................................................................................................................................... 26 LOGISTICS PROVIDERS ...................................................................................................................... 27 WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS ....................................................................................................... 28 END CUSTOMERS .............................................................................................................................. 28 SUPPORT SERVICES ........................................................................................................................... 29 RULES AND REGULATIONS ................................................................................................................ 30 2.3 Public Sector Presence in the System .......................................................................................... 31 2.4 International Presence in the System .......................................................................................... 31 DONOR COUNTRY ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................... 31 EUROPEAN UNION ............................................................................................................................. 31 1 Market Development Facility
PART TWO: SECTOR GROWTH STRATEGY ........................................................................... 32 Chapter 3: Main Findings of the Assessment ................................................................................... 33 3.1 Summary of Main Findings .......................................................................................................... 33 3.2 Challenges for Export Processing Sector Growth ...................................................................... 33 Chapter 4: Key Constraints and Opportunities ............................................................................... 35 4.1 Key Constraints ............................................................................................................................. 35 4.2 Opportunities to Address Key Constraints ................................................................................. 36 Chapter 5. Sector Growth Strategy ................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 6. Relevance for Pro-Poor Growth ..................................................................................... 38 Chapter 7: Relevance for Cross-Cutting Themes ............................................................................ 39 7.1 Gender Equality ............................................................................................................................ 39 7.2 Environmentally Sustainable Business........................................................................................ 39 7.3 Socially Responsible Business (including Disability) ................................................................. 39 Annex 1: List of Interviews ................................................................................................................ 40 Annex 2: List of Export Manufacturers ........................................................................................... 43 Annex 3: List of Textile Clothing and Footwear Members ............................................................. 50 Annex 4: Relevant Labour and Employment Regulations .............................................................. 53
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List of Figures Figure 1: Fiji’s Generalised Export-Oriented Market System ........................................................................... 9 Figure 2: Export Processing – Market System Map ..................................................................................... 11 Figure 3: Garment Manufacturing – Products and Markets ........................................................................... 12 Figure 4: Seafood Processing – Products and Markets ................................................................................ 14 Figure 5: Food Processing – Products and Markets ..................................................................................... 16 Figure 6: Information Processing – Products and Markets ............................................................................ 18
List of Tables Table 1: Fiji’s Total Export Trend (in FJD 1000s) ........................................................................................... 6 Table 2: Garment Manufacturing –Constraints ............................................................................................ 13 Table 3: Seafood Processing – Constraints ................................................................................................ 15 Table 4: Food Processing – Constraints ..................................................................................................... 17 Table 5: Information Processing – Constraints ............................................................................................ 19 Table 6: Sector Overview .......................................................................................................................... 24 Table 7: Estimate of Key Actors Operating in Fiji ......................................................................................... 25 Table 8: Sector Overview and Opportunities ............................................................................................... 33 Table 9: Key Constraints........................................................................................................................... 35 Table 10: Intervention Areas and Potential Intervention Ideas ...................................................................... 36 Table 11: Sector Growth Strategy for Export Processing .............................................................................. 37
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Abbreviations and Acronyms ADB Asian Development Bank APTC Australia-Pacific Technical College ATC Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Ausaid Australian Agency for International Development BMO Business Membership Organisation CSR Corporate Social Responsibility DFAT Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade DSS Duty Suspension Scheme EU European Union FCEF Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation FDB Fiji Development Bank FEC Fiji Exporters Federation FJD Fijian Dollars FNU Fiji National University FTBOA Fiji Tuna Boat Owners’ Association FOFA Fiji Off-shore Fishing Association GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GDP Gross Domestic Product HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points HIES Household Income and Expenditure Survey HR Human Resources HS Harmonised System ICT Information and Communication Technology QA Quality Assurance MDF Market Development Facility MSC Marine Stewardship Council MSG Melanesian Spearhead Group NTPC National Training and Productivity Centre OHS Occupational Health and Safety PAFCO Pacific Fisheries Company SPARTECA South Pacific Regional Trade Cooperation Agreement TCF Textiles, Clothing and Footwear TQM Total Quality Management USDA United States Department of Agriculture
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PART ONE: SECTOR ASSESSMENT
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Chapter 1: Pro-poor Growth Potential 1.1 The Export-Oriented Market System in the Fiji Economy Fiji is one of the more developed Pacific Island countries, ranking 96th in the Human Development Index (2013). The total population of around 860,000 comprises iTaukei (57 per cent), Indo-Fijians (37 per cent) and other ethnic groups (6 per cent).1 The population is also relatively young population, with nearly 40 per cent being 18 or under (2007 Indonesia Population Census). Of the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, Viti Levu is generally considered the more economically vibrant; in fact, of the two, the World Bank poverty map shows Vanua Levu having a higher incidence of poverty.2 Almost half of the population lives in Fiji’s two cities, Suva (the capital) and Lautoka, both of which are located in Viti Levu. Despite being described by World Bank as a middle-income country, Fiji remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.3 During the period 2003 to 2013 Fiji has seen mixed results in terms of growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and inflation trends, reflecting an economy that overtly relies on certain sectors, with a resultant low level of economic diversification. In 2011, the inflation rate stood at almost 10 per cent; however, of late this has gone down and in 2013 it was recorded at 3.1 per cent (Reserve Bank of Fiji). According to recent World Bank studies, poverty stands at around 31 per cent, although many suggest that that the rate is significantly higher.4 Until early 2000, Fiji’s economy was driven by sugar and garment exports. However, with the phasing out of the preferential price agreement with the European Union in 2006, the contribution of sugar exports to the economy started to erode. The current Fiji government has increased its investment in the sugar industry to address this issue; however, it is still too early to say what impact this is having. The garments sector paints a similar picture; around 2005, following the implementation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty and the end of the quota system under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), export earnings from garments fell by 47 per cent.5 Despite this, a number of factories withstood the challenge and since 2010 have witnessed decent growth. Being an island country within the Pacific, Fiji understandably has a large deficit in terms of balance of trade. While compared to 2000, the total export base had almost doubled by 2012, import volumes had also increased significantly; as a result, in 2013 the trade balance deficit still stood at FJD3,161.3 million.6 The following table illustrates the total export scenario of Fiji between 2006 and 2012. Table 1: Fiji’s Total Export Trend (in FJD 1000s) Year 2006 2007 2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Export
1,230,341
1,605,223
1,916,351
2,191,271
1,201,573
1,209,813
1,471,028
Source: Fiji Bureau of Statistics, 2013.
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Bureau of Statistics, Census Population of Fiji by Ethnicity, June 2012 Bank, Republic of Fiji, Poverty Trends, Sep 2011. 3 World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/country/fiji, 2014. 4 Fiji Times, 45% of people in poverty, April 21, 2010. 5 Fiji Bureau of Statistics, Total export by HS figures , Nov 2013. 6 Fiji Bureau of Statistics, International Merchandise Statistics, 2013. 2 World
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One of Fiji’s notable growth sectors is the tourism industry, in which MDF is already involved (along with the horticulture and agro export sectors). In 2011, Fiji's gross earnings from tourism totalled FJD1.051 billion, more than the combined revenue of the country’s top five exports (fish, water, apparel, timber, and gold). Remittances from overseas workers (which grew 14 per cent from January to May in 2010 compared with the same period in 2009) are second only to tourism as a source of foreign exchange earnings. The total size of Fiji’s economically active population was 364,608 in 2010. In 2007, around 25,000 (23 per cent) of Fiji’s waged and salaried workers were employed in manufacturing.7
The Importance of the Urban Economy for Poverty Reduction At the time of the 2007 Fiji census, about half of the total population lived in urban areas, a figure which is on the increase, and which according to World Bank was 53 per cent in 2012.8 This puts local authorities under enormous strain to provide citizens with access to safe water, healthcare and shelter, and from an economic point of view, high employment (fuelled by growth in key sectors) needs to be sustained. However, this is not the case. The 2007 census also showed that Fiji’s overall unemployment rate had increased from 3.7% in 1996 to 8.6% in 2007 (rural unemployment was significantly lower at 6.6% compared to the urban rate of 10.5%).9 Gender disparities remain strong, with women’s unemployment level being twice as high as that of their male counterparts, and in terms of ethnicity, the iTaukei community’s unemployment level is double that of the Indo-Fijian community. There is thus clearly a dire need to address issues relating to urban poverty and employment. Unlocking potentials in urban-focused sub-sectors (such as garments and ICT) would not only create more opportunities for economic diversification (and thus contribute to sector growth) but also reduce unemployment levels and increase income-generating opportunities for the poor. In June 2013, MDF carried out a rapid scoping review of a number of key sectors within Fiji’s urban economy. It was looking specifically for sectors that had:
scale of participation among businesses; employment and gender-focused opportunities; growth potential; pro-poor prospects; feasibility in terms of MDF’s involvement.
The sub-sectors it examined were:
Garment manufacture: in particular, the cut, make and trim garment manufacturing services which traditionally dominate Fiji’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) sector. Other manufacturing: industries involved in the manufacture of food, seafood, wood, metal, bath and body-care products. Information and Communication Technology (ICT): the provision of call centres and back office process servicing. Building and construction: businesses involved in the supply of building materials; trade and construction services involved in residential, commercial and industrial property development. Wholesale and retail: wholesale, distribution and retail of imported and manufactured goods for presentation or direct delivery to customers.
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Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population of Housing, 2007 Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS, 2013. 9 There is no recent data available but it is widely believed that this trend continues to date. 8 World
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Restaurants (fast-food/takeaway): the section of the food service sector which provides convenience and take-out restaurant meals. Transport and logistics: the provision of transport and logistics (for both internal and external purposes) as a service to other sectors (for example, people movement, (including in the tourism sector); shelf-stable and perishable products by air, sea and road). Finance: the provision of financial products and services to the ICT, manufacturing, and garments sub-sectors. Health: the provision of private sector health products and services. Education: the provision of private sector education products and services.
Export Processing Industries The MDF scoping study conducted in the second quarter of 2013 showed that the greatest economic potential was to be gained by focusing on sectors that produce goods and services for export, specifically:
Textiles, Clothing and Footwear (TCF - mainly garment manufacture); seafood (catching and processing); processed food; ICT, in particular information processing.
This sector in Fiji is private sector-dominated (exceptions include some state-owned enterprises such as Copra Millers of Fiji Ltd, Pacific Fishing Company Ltd, and Food Processors (Fiji) Ltd) and has historically not attracted significant donor support. MDF’s encouragement of the development of the private sector is however vital to assist Fiji to stimulate economic growth and employment. While a combination of factors (expiring preferential trading arrangements, low foreign direct investment, inadequate infrastructure) has led to the decline over a ten-year period, it continues to be a significant contributor to the Fijian economy and is beginning to exhibit renewed growth. The manufacturing sector (and garment enterprises in particular) provides an extremely important employment base for lower socio-economic groups (and in terms of women’s empowerment, there is a large population of poor women who are employed within Fiji’s garment enterprises). The seafood export sector is currently predominantly tuna-based; however, there is potential to increase its range (to include, for example, giant clams, sea cucumber and seaweed). Already more than 20 companies in Fiji are involved in exporting seafood and there are good opportunities to reach out to local communities involved in the supply chain of these companies. The other export food sector (processed food) focuses on some of the large companies that are exporting to the other Pacific countries (such as the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea). While the scope of this sector to grow is considered to be more moderate relative to the other areas described above, it is a good source of urban employment. The ICT sector is a growing global phenomenon that is beginning to employ significant numbers in Fiji as it finds its niche in the area of information processing. This is located in, for example, call centres (voice transactions) and includes data processing (data transactions). In terms of employment, the information processing enterprises tend to employ people from a wide socio-economic group who have attained secondary level education. These sub-sectors are developing new business models to take advantage of improved communications connectivity, the sound English language skills demonstrated by many Fijians and 8 Market Development Facility
good logistical connections to Australia and New Zealand., The current MDF programme in Fiji involves pro-poor growth interventions in horticulture, agro-export and tourism. The inclusion of export processing industries would mean MDF would be involved in three main fundamentals of the economy, with a broad remit to provide pro-poor activities to address poverty at a number of levels, including:
creating more value in terms of productivity, income and jobs in agriculture; creating employment and business opportunities outside main urban areas; creating employment in urban and peri-urban areas.
MDF’s involvement in the horticulture sub-sector is aimed at contributing to rural economic growth and employment. Along with the tourism sector, the addition of export processing sector in MDF’s portfolio, would create urban employment and economic diversification. These industries are considered to be in a sound position to contribute to future pro-poor employment growth in Fiji, growth which is particularly important for women from lower socio-economic groups in urban and peri-urban environments.
Fiji’s Generalised Export-Oriented Market System A generalised market system for the target Fijian export processing sector is presented below. This generalised market system structure shows that the economic activity internal to Fiji (and therefore that in which MDF is interested) is clearly related to cross-border transactions, internal operations, and input services. Figure 1: Fiji’s Generalised Export-Oriented Market System
CUSTOMER DEFINED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
INPUT SUPPLIERS RAW MATERIALS, VOICE, DATA
DESIGN, QUALITY SPECIFICATION, BRANDING, LABELLING
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
GENERALISED MARKET SYSTEM STRUCTURE
TRANSACTORS IMPORTERS WHOLESALERS COMMUNICATION PROVIDERS
FIJI OPERATIONS VALUE ADD ACTIVITIES
PACKAGING DOMESTIC CUSTOMER
TRANSACTORS LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT, COMMUNICATION PROVIDERS
EXPORT CUSTOMERS
PACIFIC ISLAND CUSTOMER
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
TRAINING, INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, MARKET ACCESS
PLANT & EQUIPMENT, LABOUR, ENERGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INTERNAL TO FIJI
SERVICES OTHERS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)
Overall, the export processing industries have a good potential to grow, and grow even further if underpinning constraints affecting the market systems in which they operate are addressed. The next section attempts to provide a general picture, followed by a discussion of specific sub-sector-related constraints. 9 Market Development Facility
Most of the sub-sectors under the export market system are constrained by their lack of access to skilled human resources (HR), which in the garments sector is felt at operational level and to an extent at mid-management level. In the seafood and food processing sectors, this constraint is more related to technical skills, such as food safety and hygiene. Currently, all organisations in Fiji are obliged to pay a training levy; many argue that quality, relevant training modules are not available and that more needs to be done to improve Fiji’s HR development systems. In terms of market access, the situation is twofold, with lack of adequate promotion coupled with poor product/service segmentation. The latter terms indicate the potential that the export sectors in Fiji could exploit if they were to expand their product/service portfolio to target new customer segments. In the garment sector and to an extent the overall TCF sub-sector, lack of access to appropriate technology is limiting company growth. For example, the manufacture of garments made from sports jersey presents a good business opportunity, but to tap into it the companies involved need to be able to carry out sublimation (a process that fuses materials to the fabric). Many struggle to get access to the appropriate machinery and/or expertise and therefore are unable to target this segment. Access to technology is also felt as a constraint to some extent by the seafood and processed food sub-sectors in terms of (in the case of seafood) proper fleet management, and (in food processing) maintenance of machinery. With any industry dealing with export, compliance with international and/or accepted standards must be ensured if export markets are to be sustained. In the context of Fiji, while certain companies in the export sector have been commendable in achieving these standards, there is room for development to help other companies to do the same (standards include, among others, those relating to food safety, environmental and social responsibility, and health and safety). Adequate policy support is an almost essential prerequisite for any export sector to grow. However, equally so are the mechanisms in the market system which ensure that the relevant voices are being heard. To that end, all Fiji’s sub-sectors focused on export processing could do well if voices within the industry are first listened to and then channelled (by associations or chambers) to the appropriate public bodies, to ensure the proper policy support needed to address regulatory barriers is secured. Supply chain inadequacies only impact on some of the sub-sectors, namely those that use Fiji’s village or farming communities for their input supplies. Two of these are the seafood and processed food sub-sectors, where improving supply chain sourcing in certain areas would improve their competitiveness (this is perhaps less true for processed food, which relies to some extent on imports for its ingredients). As mentioned above, working with export sectors is likely to have a positive impact on employment, and in terms of special focus areas, provide a greater bias towards women; this is particularly true in terms of the garment and ICT sectors. Furthermore, from an overall country perspective, MDF’s focus on economic activity within the ambit of the export industry in the second largest island, Vanua Levu, would remain. Here, there are discussions of a garment manufacturing unit opening up in the north, and from a supply chain perspective, improvements in sourcing inputs from the north would also create a positive impact. In addition, in terms of stimulating investment in the garment manufacturing sector, discussions with a number of Fiji’s financial institutions and investment entities revealed a significant market system disconnect in the area of access to finance/stimulating investment. Fiji’s financial institutions have funds available to invest and are seeking sound opportunities for lending. However, within the export industry sub-sectors, organisations exist which struggle to get such 10 Market Development Facility
access, or which are reluctant to borrow. In the international landscape, sector positioning could do well to stimulate more investment in this sector. Based on analysis, the market system map for Fiji’s export industries looks as follows: Figure 2: Export Processing – Market System Map
Access to technology
Access to skills
Market access
Apparel
Product development
ICT
Regulatory barriers and compliance
Seafood
Processed food End Market
Improved supply chain
Export industry in Vanua Levu
Access to finance, stimulating investments
End Market
Special Focus Areas
1.2 Export Processing Industries: Products and Markets Export processing involves a wide range of economic activity, and this section of the report examines Fiji’s sub-sectors of garment manufacturing, food processing and information processing in more detail.
Garment Manufacturing Figure 3 represents Fijian garment manufacturing operations. From industry discussions it is estimated that some 85 per cent of garments produced go to premium export markets, about 10 per cent to the Fijian market and around 5 per cent to Pacific Island markets. The industry provides employment both in enterprises outside Fiji (for example, in Australia and New Zealand), and enterprises within Fiji (both within the sector itself, and support services).
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Figure 3: Garment Manufacturing – Products and Markets
CUSTOMER DEFINED
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
GARMENT SUB-SECTOR STRUCTURE
RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIERS
DESIGN, TEXTILE, QUALITY SPECIFICATION, BRANDING, LABELLING
TEXTILES, COTTON, CONSUMABLES
IMPORT WHOLESALERS AGENTS, ,ETC
OTHERS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)
DOMESTIC CUSTOMER
FIJI APPAREL SECTOR – PRINT/CUT/MAKE/TRIM
PACKAGING EXPORT LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT, DOCUMENTATION
PREMIUM EXPORT CUSTOMERS
10%
PLANT & EQUIPMENT, LABOUR, ENERGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE
85%
PACIFIC ISLAND CUSTOMER
5%
SHARE OF SALES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
TRAINING, INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, MARKET ACCESS
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INTERNAL TO FIJI
FIJI APPAREL SECTOR
Enterprises in external economies:
provide order quantities, design, textiles, quality, branding and labelling specifications; provide supplies of raw materials including textiles, cotton, and consumables (buttons, accessories, printing inks, etc); receive the finished products for sale to customers. Enterprises in the Fijian economy fall into two categories, namely: Garment manufacturing enterprises, which:
provide plant equipment, labour, energy and knowhow to manufacture the garments; maintain quality assurance and customer service; are required to maintain compliance with appropriate Fijian regulations.
Other enterprises, which: provide packaging made in Fiji; provide import/export agencies to assist with raw material import and finished product export logistics; provide other private and public sector inputs to garment manufacturing to assist with training, taxation incentives and market access negotiations. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, Fiji enjoyed preferred market access to the Australia and United States markets. The quota scheme in place at that time provided an artificial stimulus to the industry, and at its height the Fiji TCF industry employed around 20,000 workers. With the phasing out of such agreements, the industry witnessed a decline; by 2007 there were approximately 25 factories left employing around 4,000 workers and from 207 until 2010, the Australian government ran a TCF 12 Market Development Facility
productivity and support programme, mainly to help the industry recover.10 Since 2010, garment export levels have stabilised somewhat at around FJD107 million per annum.11 The Fijian garment manufacturing industry has a place on the 69-member TCF Council (see Annex 3), a membership which includes almost all of the country’s garment manufacturing enterprises. In 2011, the TCF Council established the Make It In Fiji programme which requires members to comply with a set of annually-audited compliance standards (both regulatory and CSR). Eleven company members of the TCF Council already comply with the “Make It In Fiji” programme, cooperating in trade promotion activities supported by the TCF Council.12 It is estimated that the “Make It In Fiji” companies manufacture up to 80 per cent of garments exported from Fiji. The scoping study done by MDF in the second quarter of 2013 identified the key constraints and priorities for garment manufacturing in Fiji, presented in Table 22 below: Table 2: Garment Manufacturing –Constraints Constraint Garment Manufacturing Access to manufacturing Many raw material supplies are provided by clients to be held in stock for use inputs on demand. Marginal improvements could be made through improved stock control and application of just-in-time practices. Access to required More employees with entry level skills are needed, plus the upgrading of employee skills current employee skills and improved training of middle management to improve productivity and quality. Access to technology and Access to technology is not generally a problem; however, costs of technology support systems support are an issue, as high level support often needs to be imported. Operational efficiency and This can be improved through adoption of management information systems, productivity total quality management, e-business, and other factory and business management tools. Regulatory barriers and CSR compliance Market promotion
Access to export markets Supply chain
Regulatory barriers appear to be generally under control, particularly in relation to raw material inputs. There is opportunity for expanded adoption of the Make It In Fiji Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme. There is need for improved promotion of the newly adopted Fijian garment manufacturing business models in order to increase orders. Further investigation of market opportunities for short order fashion is required. Current focus is Australasia and the Pacific. The SPARTECA trading protocol with Australia needs to be renegotiated.13 Other than issues mentioned under ‘access to input’, no major issues.
Priority LOW
HIGH
MEDIUM HIGH
MEDIUM
HIGH
MEDIUM LOW
Seafood Processing Figure 4 represents Fiji’s seafood processing products and markets. Seafood processing in Fiji produces a wide range of products, principally from a variety of tuna species caught in the surrounding Pacific zone. Products produced for export range from high-end fresh sushi and sashimi, to mid-end fresh and frozen fillets, and shelf-stable canned and flexible retort pouch products. Industry discussions indicate that 85 per cent of seafood (principally tuna from off-shore fishing) that is processed into value added items in Fiji is exported, with some 10 per cent and 5 per cent going to the domestic and Pacific Island markets respectively. 10 DFAT,
http://aid.dfat.gov.au/Publications/Documents/fiji-tcf.pdf. 2009 Bureau of Statistics, International Merchandise Trade Statistics,2013. 12 Danam (Fiji) Ltd, Intimate Apparel, Jack's Garments Ltd, Lyndhurst Ltd, Mark One Apparel, Motiram & Co, Nagsun Apparel, Outfitters (Fiji) Ltd, PFD Fiji Ltd, Ranjit Garments, and United Apparel. 13 South Pacific Regional Trade Cooperation Agreement allows developing island member countries within the Pacific to have unrestricted access for certain products to Australia and New Zealand. 11 Fiji
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Figure 4: Seafood Processing – Products and Markets
IMPORTED FISH
CUSTOMER DEFINED
PACKAGING
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
SEAFOOD PROCESSING SUB-SECTOR STRUCTURE
QUALITY SPECIFICATION, BRANDING, LABELLING
PORT ACTIVITIES
LOCALLY PURCHASED FISH
TRAINING, INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, MARKET ACCESS
DOMESTIC CUSTOMER
10%
FIJI SEAFOOD PROCESSING SECTOR – FILLET/PORTION/ PROCESS/PACKAGE
SEAFOOD SECTOR PLANT & EQUIPMENT, LABOUR, ENERGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE
EXPORT LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT, DOCUMENTATION
PREMIUM EXPORT CUSTOMERS
PACIFIC ISLAND CUSTOMER
85%
5%
APPROXIMATE SHARE OF SALES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
OTHERS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INTERNAL TO FIJI
COMPANY DAUGHT FISH
The industry provides employment in several areas: for enterprises outside Fiji and for those within Fiji (both within the sector itself and support services). Enterprises in external economies: provide (for some exported products) market demand, and design, quality, branding and labelling specifications to meet their own brand requirements; provide some fish for processing in Fiji, both directly and through intermediaries; provide some specialist packaging (e.g. barrier film, waxed film cartons). Enterprises in the Fijian economy fall into two categories, namely: Seafood Processing enterprises, which:
provide design, quality, branding and labelling specifications for own-label products, for both domestic and export markets; provide plant, equipment, labour, energy and knowhow needed to manufacture seafood products; maintain quality assurance and customer service; are required to maintain compliance with appropriate Fijian regulations. Other enterprises, which:
provide some packaging made in Fiji; provide import/export agencies to assist with raw material import and finished product export logistics; provide other private and public sector inputs to assist the seafood processing industry with training, taxation incentives and market access negotiations. 14 Market Development Facility
The fishing industry in Fiji has two components:
coastal fishing (principally supplying the local Fijian market); off-shore longline fishing (principally supplying export markets in frozen fish, frozen fillets, further processed fresh and frozen products, and heat-treated, canned and flexible pouch products).
Of principal interest to the MDF third sector project is seafood processing, which is located on-shore and utilises urban-based employees to process caught fish into added value products. In 2005, it was estimated that 7,000 people were employed in fishing and aquaculture and a further 2,000 in postharvest processing.14 Off-shore fishing in Fiji is export-oriented, the main target markets for the tuna catch being Japan and the USA, in particular sashimi-grade tuna (yellowfin and bigeye) to Japan and America, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union. The albacore landed in Fiji is sent to canneries, primarily the Pacific Fisheries Company (PAFCO) operation, which heat treats and freezes product for Bumble Bee Foods LLC (North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company) Seafood processing has several facilities that meet USDA and EU processing standards, have implemented systems and achieved ISO quality accreditation, and can produce a variety of refrigerated and shelf stable products. Fijian seafood processing can take advantage of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) accreditation, which some companies have already gained, to deliver value added products to a wider market that now includes the EU.15 Fijian enterprises that have invested resources to achieve these best practice standards are also keen for Fiji to attain global sourcing rights, so that more fish caught from throughout the Pacific can be processed into value added items in Fiji. Some of the more established enterprises involved in seafood processing in Fiji include Solander Pacific Ltd, Golden Ocean, TriPacific (a division of Foods Pacific), Sea Quest, Hangton Pacific, PAFCO, Daishin Seafood Group, Tosa Bussan, and Fiji Fish Marketing Group. The key constraints for seafood processing in Fiji are summarised in Table 3. Table 3: Seafood Processing – Constraints Constraint Seafood Processing Access to manufacturing There is a need to ensure access to fish from throughout the South West inputs Pacific region. Access to required employee This requires more employees with entry-level skills-plus, and schemes to skills upgrade current skills to meet hygiene, food safety, and productivity and product quality standards. Upgrading of supervisory level staff is also needed. Access to technology and Technology is available; however support services often have to be imported, support systems particularly those associated with international standards compliance. Operational efficiency and Scope exists to improve processing productivity further by implementing productivity efficient management systems. Regulatory barriers and Several facilities already comply with international hygiene and food safety compliance requirements. Compliance issues mostly relate to the need for fish to come from sustainable resources. Market promotion Once global sourcing and fisheries compliance standards are in place then there will be a need to promote Fiji’s processed fish products. However, supply does not currently meet demand. Access to export markets For this to be secured, global sourcing arrangements/ compliance required by importing markets with sustainable fishing practices need to be negotiated. Supply chain Scope exists to improve backward integration and community engagement in sourcing of seafood.
14 Asian 15 The
Priority HIGH HIGH
MEDIUM MEDIUM LOW
MEDIUM
HIGH MEDIUM
Development Bank, Republic of the Fiji Islands: Fisheries Sector Review, 2005. Marine Stewardship Council is an independent non-profit organisation which sets a standard for sustainable fishing.
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Food Processing Figure 5 represents the Fijian food processing products and markets. Essentially, food processors import the raw materials and manufacture a wide range of mainly shelf-stable, own-brand products. Some are occasionally co-packed for export to third parties; however, this is mostly an opportunistic activity. The destinations are principally the Fijian domestic market and the Pacific Islands. Since Suva is the largest transhipment port for Pacific Island trade, Fijian-based food product manufacturers are able to take advantage of favourable logistics to import raw materials, process them, and then reexport the finished products to other Pacific nations. It is estimated from industry discussions that in the region of 70 per cent of retail-ready food products manufactured in Fiji go to the Fijian market, with some 20 per cent going to other Pacific Islands. The remaining 10 per cent is co-packed for third parties in Australia and New Zealand. Figure 5: Food Processing – Products and Markets
RAW MATERIALS FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGING
PORT ACTIVITIES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
FOOD PROCESSING SUB-SECTOR STRUCTURE
FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR
FIJI FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR – FILLET/PORTION/ PROCESS/PACKAGE
OTHERS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)
PLANT & EQUIPMENT, LABOUR, ENERGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE
TRAINING, INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, MARKET ACCESS
EXPORT LOGISTICS, TRANSPORT, DOCUMENTATION
DOMESTIC CUSTOMER
PREMIUM EXPORT CUSTOMERS
70%
10%
APPROXIMATE SHARE OF SALES
PACIFIC ISLAND CUSTOMER
20%
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION, QUALITY, BRANDING, LABELLING
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INTERNAL TO FIJI
CUSTOMER DEFINED
The industry provides employment in several areas: enterprises outside Fiji and enterprises within Fiji (both within the sector itself, and support services). Enterprises in external economies:
provide raw food materials for processing in Fiji, both directly and through intermediaries (global sourcing); provide specialist packaging (e.g. cans, barrier film, laminated film); Enterprises in the Fijian economy fall into two categories, namely: Food Processing enterprises, which:
provide design, quality, branding and labelling specifications for own-label products for both domestic and export markets;
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provide plant equipment, labour energy and customer services needed to manufacture the food items; maintain quality assurance and customer service to the satisfaction of clients; maintain compliance with appropriate Fijian regulations. Other enterprises, which:
provide some packaging made in Fiji; provide import/export agencies to assist with raw material import and finished product export logistics; provide other private and public sector inputs to assist with training, taxation incentives and market access negotiations. Within the Fijian context, food processing can generally be characterised as comprising large formal companies that import the bulk of their raw materials and manufacture retail-ready branded products. The processes involve a wide variety of activities, from the relatively simple milling and packaging of rice through to production of shelf-stable retort pouch products containing several ingredients in relatively complex formulations. There is some investment in food processing taking place in bakery and dairy products. Food processing enjoys some relief under current import tariff arrangements where, in general, bulk food product imported for processing has an import duty of 5 per cent applied, and retail-ready products have a 15 per cent duty applied. Currently the Fijian Trade Policy is being reviewed and as such these import duties may change. Table 4 summarises the constraints and priorities for food processing in Fiji. Table 4: Food Processing – Constraints Constraint Food Processing Access to manufacturing Most inputs are imported, thus improvement in freight logistics and import inputs clearance would assist growth. Access to required employee The sector requires access to entry-level skills, plus schemes to upgrade skills current worker skills to meet hygiene, food safety, and productivity and product quality standards. Training of supervisory level staff is also required. Access to technology and Support services have to be imported to a) support the technology and b) support systems provide auditing and compliance assessment in accordance with international standards. Operational efficiency and While operational efficiency appears to be reasonably sound, there are productivity opportunities for modern manufacturing tools to be adopted, particularly in relation to short-run production. Regulatory barriers and Current trade policy review should be structured to ensure success of food compliance processing in Fiji for both domestic and Pacific Island markets; HACCP regulations need to be appropriate. Market promotion Not applicable Access to export markets Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Trade agreement provides some opportunities; it would be desirable if these could be extended to other Pacific islands.16 Supply chain Some scope to improve supply chain for the local items that is sourced for production; however, volume and scale are quite low (since the bulk is imported).
16 The
Priority MEDIUM HIGH
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
HIGH
LOW MEDIUM
LOW
Melanesian Spearhead Group is an intergovernmental organisation whose members are Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The trade agreement signed in 1993 aims to foster economic development through trade relations.
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Information Processing Figure 6 represents the Fijian information processing products and markets. At present, information processing is entirely directed towards off-shore clients; Fijian business is incidental. Figure 6: Information Processing – Products and Markets
VOICE QUERIES
CUSTOMER DEFINED CALL RESPONSE, DATA PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS
DATA PROVISION
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
INFORMATION PROCESSING SUB-SECTOR STRUCTURE
OTHERS (PUBLIC & PRIVATE)
SECTOR
FIJI INFORMATION PROCESSING SECTOR – DATA ENTRY/CALL RESPONSE/PROCESS/ PACKAGE/RETRANSMIT
TRAINING, INCENTIVES, TAX BREAKS, MARKET ACCESS
LABOUR, PLANT & EQUIPMENT, ENERGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INTERNAL TO FIJI
COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER
DOMESTIC CUSTOMER
PREMIUM EXPORT CUSTOMERS
5%
95% APPROXIMATE SHARE OF SALES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY EXTERNAL TO FIJI
COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER
The industry provides employment in several areas: enterprises outside Fiji and enterprises within Fiji (both within the sector itself, and support services). Enterprises in external economies:
provide raw voice and data inputs for processing into finished products (including advice, orders, business reports); receive the finished products from Fijian enterprises. Enterprises in the Fijian economy fall into two categories, namely: Those which:
interpret client voice and data business processes, and design and implement client servicing training packages for employees; provide plant equipment, labour, energy and customer services to respond to and process client voice and data requirements; maintain quality assurance and customer service; maintain compliance with appropriate Fijian regulations. Other enterprises, which:
provide high speed and reliable data and voice communication networks.
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is clear that information processing in Fiji almost exclusively services the off-shore market (it also provides some smaller services for the Fijian tourism sector). Information processing is a new business development to Fiji and has come about after the deregulation in July 2009 of the telecommunications sector provided high speed, reliable, costcompetitive telecommunications infrastructure. Information processing enterprises grew quite quickly and have been through a period of consolidation, as they have bedded-in internal business processes and gained confidence in being in a position to expand. Indications are that enterprises are now ready to embark on a period of growth, with some able to grow without further significant capital cost as they have a sound telecommunication infrastructure in place and the ability to expand desk space. Fiji’s comparative advantage relevant to growth in this industry includes a relatively well-educated labour force, ease of communication (and customer service) with customers in English, and close proximity to target markets, all of which contribute to queries and problems meeting with a quick response. A factor that needs to be taken into account is that this is a 24-hour business, requiring competent employees working on a shift basis. This work environment requires people with a minimum level of secondary education and who are comfortable working shifts. Table 25 provides a summary of the constraints and priorities for information processing in Fiji. Table 5: Information Processing – Constraints Constraint Information Processing
Priority
Access to service inputs
The deregulation of the telecommunications sector has allowed the development of good international connectivity for both voice and data import and export. Employees with sound education are essential for the development of information processing. Development and delivery of internal training packages designed for specific clients are essential for success in this sector. Since this is a recently established sector the current technology is sound.
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Access to export markets
Efficiency and productivity essentially depend on the ability to develop communications and data processing strategies and techniques relevant to each individual client. Regulatory barriers have been largely overcome with the deregulation of the telecommunications industry. Current enterprises are established and ready to take the next step to increase their marketing activities to garner more clients. Transfer of voice and data generally incurs no market access issues.
Supply chain
Not applicable.
N/A
Access to required employee skills Access to technology and support systems Operational efficiency and productivity Regulatory barriers and compliance Market promotion
1.3
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW HIGH LOW
Growth Trends and Growth Potential of the End Market
Since 2007, there has been good growth in exports in all sectors of the Fijian economy, with total exports almost doubling between 2007 (FJD1.2billion) and 2012 (FJD2.1billion).17 The Pacific Islands, Australia, the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK) received 76 per cent of exports in 2012; however the commodity range to these destinations differs significantly. Exports to the Pacific Islands are dominated by manufactured food and hardware products; those to Australia are dominated by garment products, to the UK by sugar, and those to the USA are dominated by mineral water products. According to the Fiji Bureau of Statistics export data, the manufacturing sector export growth has exhibited a strong recovery recently (a 56 per cent increase 17 Fiji
Bureau of Statistics, International Merchandise Statistics, 2013.
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between 2010 and 2012), which has been led by strong growth in exports of processed food and beverages (including mineral water). Since 2006, exports of textiles and textile articles have been stable at around FJD100 million/annum. Processed foods and beverages and textiles and textile articles consistently make up between 80 to 90 per cent of manufactured goods exported from Fiji. Discussions with manufacturers indicate that the significant growth in exports between 2010 and 2012 provided an opportunity to catch up on previous export levels. While this year-on-year growth is not expected to continue there is confidence that it will nevertheless continue to be in the range of 5 to 10 per cent per annum for the foreseeable future.
Garment Manufacturing With increasing globalisation and competition, many developed countries have seen their manufacturing base being outsourced to low-cost countries. Garment manufacturing requires extensive human labour and a limited dependence on high-end technology and scientific research, making it relatively easy to outsource. New clothing trends are also on the rise (such as the use of organic cotton and short-order sports clothing), requiring specialised manufacturing processes which provide opportunities for slightly higher cost manufacturers to fulfil. A prime example includes engaging with small-to-medium clothing retailers to assist in the implementation of efficient outsourced supply chains for either direct or online retail sales. Australia (a major market for Fiji’s garment manufacturers, receiving around 80 per cent of its exports) has recently introduced regulations that make it considerably more difficult to use home-based outworkers in Australia, a development which provides further opportunity for Fijian manufacturers to offer supply chain solutions for small and medium fashion clothing retailers in Australia. To more easily take advantage of these and other trends it is predicted that garment manufacturers must:
develop innovative manufacturing processes and techniques to differentiate themselves and deliver efficient supply chains; maximise advantage by offering collaborative product design and development services at the front end of innovation; improve efficiency with integrated Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes, systems and tools; reduce development and production cycle time with robust and integrated sample development process and systems.
Seafood Processing In terms of supply and demand, world per capita food fish supply/demand increased from an average of 9.9 kg (live weight equivalent) in the 1960s to 18.6 kg in 2010.18The major off-shore catch in Fiji is tuna, constituting about 8 per cent of the share of tuna of total fish exports in 2010. Japan continues to be the main market for sashimi-grade tuna, and the European Union the second largest market, while the European Union and the USA are the major importers and Thailand the main exporter of canned tuna. Starting in 2012, a number of Fijian fishing and seafood processors achieved Marine Sustainability Council certification. Many have upgraded their factories to meet increasingly stringent global demands for food safety and quality control, and introduced technologies such as retorts capable of producing shelf-stable products in flexible packaging.
18 Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO), The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2012.
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Suva is a port out of which a number of foreign fishing fleets operate, where seafood is transhipped, and where the potential for approval of ‘global sourcing’ offers opportunities for increased on-shore processing. Fiji is well-positioned to take advantage of increased global demand for wild capture tuna; however it will need to compete with other countries in the region (in particular Papua New Guinea and American Samoa) which also have indicated their intention to achieve significant seafood sectors.
Food Processing Fiji has a small market for food processing, and a number of indigenous, packaged food manufacturers that import raw materials and produce packaged convenience food products which are in increasing demand in the local market. These manufacturers also take advantage of the opportunity to service other Pacific Island markets. Given this small market size it is unlikely that global food manufacturers will target the Pacific market in the short or even medium term, as their attentions are generally directed towards the larger markets such as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Asia and Africa.
Information Processing A number of organisations carry out voice and data processing operations in Fiji. They have established themselves by transferring technology and management systems developed in other countries, to take advantage of competitive telecommunications costs, the time positioning of Fiji, and access to a well-educated cohort of young people with good English skills in a relatively costcompetitive developing country. These enterprises generally have established systems with the ability to implement:
advanced information processing technology and competitive data transmission costs based on providing services to export markets; standard sets of management and employment practices that have allowed them to implement appropriate training and human resource practices. There are about five or six call centres in Fiji (some having a larger base of operations then others), providing services to, among others, the aviation industry, mobile clients and the banking industry.19 They are well-poised and have expressed an intention to add more service offers to their basket.
1.4
Relevance for Pro-Poor Growth
In 2013, MDF undertook a detailed Poverty, Gender and Ethnicity study on the sectors it was involved in. It focused on horticulture, tourism and urban poverty. This latter, urban segment provided key insights and understanding on how MDF involvement in export processing could lead to pro-poor impact. The number of people living in urban areas has been increasing steadily. In 1960s it was at 30 per cent, increased to 49 per cent in 2000 and is expected to reach 60 per cent by 2015.20 Informal housing settlements (‘squatter settlements’) have also witnessed a similarly mushrooming growth; there has been a 78 per cent increase in the squatter population between 1999 and 2003 (Lingam 2005). With such a rapidly increasing rate, Fiji faces associated issues of unemployment, low income in relation to the cost of living, and poor shelter in urban areas. The situation within these informal settlements is rather bleak. For instance, in informal settlements in Suva city around 40 per cent live 19 MDF,
In-depth interviews with Fijian based call centre operators, June 2013. D. Poverty in the Pacific: Definitions, trends and Issues’, Presentation, UNDP Pacific Sub Regional Centre, Suva. http://www.undppc.org.fj/_resources/articles/files/5.pdf, 2006. 20 Abbot,
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in absolute poverty, while 47 per cent (indigenous Fijians) and 43 per cent (Indo-Fijians) do not have assets of any kind (Mohanty, 2006). Looking deeper into the issue, the MDF poverty study found that factors influencing poverty within these areas included underemployment, lack of skills, low wages, the high cost of living, and poor access to finance. As pathways out of poverty, the study recommended the creation of greater access to jobs, better skills training, and supporting enterprise growth within the settlements. In Fiji’s export processing sectors there is strong potential to address these pathways in a constructive and sustainable manner. Garment manufacture already employs workers from the settlements; facilitating growth within this sub-sector would increase employment there. A similar picture holds true for the other sub-sectors within export processing. Building mechanisms to address the capacity and skills of the people in the settlements and facilitating linkages to these sub-sectors thus presents another potential area of impact. This view is largely echoed by the poor living in the settlements (MDF Poverty and Gender Study 2013). In addition, MDF’s current sector portfolio (horticulture and tourism) is directed more towards addressing rural poverty than urban poverty. It is thus considered most appropriate for the third sector to be addressing employment opportunities for the urban poor.
1.5
Relevance for Cross-Cutting Themes
Gender Equality MDF adopts a market development approach, where it examines its selected sectors, and first identifies and then implements ways to achieve gender mainstreaming. The Poverty and Gender study conducted by MDF last year showed that in the urban sector, a significant portion of the poor men and women reside in the informal settlement areas known as squatter settlements. Focus group discussion with these respondents showed:
Having a full-time permanent work is a pathway out of poverty for the urban poor. Unemployment and underemployment are widespread for both women and men and keeps urban households in poverty. Underemployment is typically related to casual or part-time labour, the income from which can fluctuate from one week to the next. Creating more stable and regular employment for women and men can help households rise out of poverty. Within urban settlements, there is often only one source of income for a household as it is either difficult for both the men and women to get jobs or the women are reluctant to work outside of the home. Certain women – particularly pre-marriage, widowed, women whose children are older – will also be able to benefit from jobs. But women (between 20 and 40 on average) may be more reluctant to leave their children full time as they do not have reliable childcare and they place high value on their role as mothers and homemakers. If MDF develops the garment industry, there will be a sufficient number of women who are ready and willing to benefit from the jobs created. However to reach more women, flexible working hours could be offered and women in the settlements are also interested in home-based work or home-based small businesses. In the garments sector, majority of the employees are women Enterprises in the information processing sector also employ more women than men Typical occupations for men are as day labourers (including carpenters), groundsmen, taxi drivers, security guards and petty traders. Women tend to work much less often – some of those with children in particular stated that they preferred to stay home with the children and to take 22 Market Development Facility
care of the house – but those who are employed are workers in garment factories, housekeepers, petty traders and security guards. Creating jobs which require lower skills for entry is an important aspect to help the urban poor move out of poverty. Both men and women are unable to get secure better jobs since they lack skills, qualifications and experience. Education levels amongst the adults in the settlements are typically low and even unskilled formal jobs can require some proof of qualification through minimum levels of education. Adults are unable to invest in their own skills development as they focus on sending their children through school first, thus creating jobs with low skills for entry and on the job training is important for increasing access by both women and men in urban settlements. These findings indicate that there are rooms for MDF to become involved to ensure poor women get benefitted through its interventions in this sector.
Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business: ‘Green Fiji’ Manufacturing and information processing enterprises tend to be located in the formal business sector, and as such are subject to compliance with environmental, occupational health and safety (OHS) and labour employment rules and conditions laid down by regulators. Within companies, these standards and regulations are generally well-respected and implemented. MDF has also developed a thorough environmental checklist which it uses to screen initiatives/interventions that harm the environment.
Disability There is likely to be potential to create employment positions for those with physical disabilities, particularly in information processing enterprises. However further insight is required to identify possible opportunities. MDF will update this section based on later reviews.
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Chapter 2: The Market System 2.1 Overview The market system is made up of the relevant actors, laws and their inter-relationship that govern sector performance. MDF has identified four segments under Fiji’s export processing industries (see Table 6): Table 6: Sector Overview Sub-sector Current Scope Employment Information 2500-3000 processing Information processing, call centres (voice and data) Garment 4500 Manufacturing Short-order apparel market/schools wear/corporate/ uniform/boutiqu e fashion Seafood 3000 Processed seafood products for export
BMO No
End Markets Global
Growth Potential and Competition Very high growth potential
Dominant Location Suva
Potential Beneficiaries
Suva, Lautoka, Labasa, Rakiraki
Permanent employees
Suva, Lautoka, Levuka
Permanent employees of processors; Permanent/ casual vessel employees
Permanent employees
High competition
TCF (and Make It In Fiji subset); Fiji Exporters Council (FEC)
Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Association; Foreign Fishing Operators Association;
Australia, NZ, Pacific (MSG)
Moderate growth potential Low competition
EU, Japan, North America, Australia, NZ
High growth potential
Pacific Islands
Low growth potential
Moderate competition
All across Fiji
FEC;
Food Processing Processed, packaged, branded export food items (including beverages but excluding seafood)
1500-2000
Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation (FCEF) FEC FCEF
Suva, Lautoka, Ba
Permanent Employees
Low competition
Source: In-depth interviews with key informants (April to July 13 – see Annex 1).
Fiji’s export processing industries are almost exclusively private sector activities, with the public sector impinging in a limited way in the areas of operational rules and regulations, and market access and control. As described above, the market system of each sub-sector within the export processing sector involves a number of actors, which are detailed in the next section. 24 Market Development Facility
2.2 Description of System Actors The key system actors in export-oriented processing industries that participate in the Fijian economy include:
Value chain market actors:
Input suppliers which provide raw material produced in Fiji (predominantly seafood); Processors of goods and information that add value to raw material and voice and data; Logistics providers which organise incoming raw material and export of value added finished goods (including communications companies that import and export voice and data); Wholesaler/retailers who provide finished products to Fijian customers.
Support service providers:
Training institutes which provide skills development; Packaging companies which supply product packing materials; Financial institutions which provide capital for investment and operations; Technology providers which provide technology and technology support systems; Organisations which provide the rules of engagement; Standards and compliance organisations which audit and certify enterprises.
An estimate of the number of key value chain actors in each of the product markets is provided in Table 77. Table 7: Estimate of Key Actors Operating in Fiji Product Market
Input Suppliers
Processors
Garment Manufacturing
<10
50
Seafood Processing
<20
10
Food Processing
>10
25
Information Processors
<10
5
Logistics Providers
<10 >5
Wholesale/ Retailers <10 <20
Total 80 60 60
NONE
20
Source: Estimated from in-depth interviews with key informants (April to July 13, 2014 – see Annex 1).
The total number of actors in the targeted export processing sector in Fiji is estimated at 300 smallholders /SMEs and 200 larger enterprises.
Input Suppliers In the four export-processing sectors that constitute the focus of this report, a number of Fiji-based input suppliers provide incoming goods as follows: Garment manufacture. All the textiles and significant accessories used in the garment sector are sourced off-shore. As a consequence, the number of Fiji-based input suppliers are estimated to be less than ten. Some consumables are provided by Fijian companies, including labels and packaging ( made of card and/or plastic). Major packaging providers include enterprises such as Golden Manufacturers Ltd (cardboard) and Narsey’s Plastics Industries Ltd.
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Seafood Processing. Although some seafood processed in Fiji is sourced from other regions in the Pacific, the greatest majority is tuna caught by Fiji-based off-shore fishing boats. The off-shore fishing fleet is represented by two associations:
Fiji Tuna Boat Owners Fishing Association (FBTOA) has some 30 fishing vessels, which employ about 600 crew and catch about 3,000-4,000 MT of albacore tuna a year. FTBOA members use the surface long-line method, for which it achieved certification in late 2012 from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Fiji Off-shore Fishing Association (FOFA) has a fleet of some 40 vessels, employing around 500 crew. Many of the fishing vessels are company-owned (for example, Solander operates 13 vessels; Golden Ocean operates 24 vessels and charters another 12). The number of enterprises involved in off-shore fishing that supply Fiji’s seafood processing sector is estimated to be less than 20. The Fiji government has recently introduced a charge for fish that is transhipped in Fiji; this has created an incentive for more on-shore processing and economic value added incentives (both from Fijian and off-shore fishing fleets). Food Processing. Food processing in Fiji depends on the sourcing of raw materials off-shore; inputs sourced in Fiji are extremely limited due to lack of a) regular supply and b) quality consistency. Even processed retail products that have been developed utilising Fiji’s harvested products (for example, dalo and cassava) encounter sourcing difficulties. This situation can be ameliorated by working through third party agents rather than directly with suppliers, as these agents are able to classify the required amounts of product purchased into those suitable for various market outlets (for export, further processing, domestic retail and household consumption). Nevertheless, supply reliability is difficult. There are estimated to be less than 10 Fiji-based suppliers (generally third party agents) supplying Fijian-produced raw materials for further processing. Information processing. Fiji-based enterprises that use formal information processing services are limited to those in the financial and aviation sectors; the number of enterprises currently using these services is estimated to be less than ten.
Processors This section lists all the major actors involved in processing the inputs into the Fiji export processing sector, and which take a central role in exporting the commodity and/or service. Garment manufacture. Industry advice states that all enterprises of any significance are also members of the TCF Council (see Annex 3). Fifty-two of the listed enterprises are full members of the Council; an estimated 20 of these could be categorised as smaller enterprises), while 30 are larger enterprises. However, the most significant are those certified under the Make It in Fiji’ programme administered by the TCF Council. These are Danam (Fiji) Ltd, Intimate Apparel, Jack's Garments Ltd, Lyndhurst Ltd, Mark One Apparel, Motiram & Co, Nagsun Apparel, Outfitters (Fiji) Ltd, PFD Fiji Ltd, Ranjit Garments and United Apparel. These 11 companies manufacture an estimated 80+ per cent of the manufactured garments exported from Fiji. The larger enterprises import raw materials and produced finished garments for re-export, particularly to Australian and New Zealand markets. Only one of the enterprises (Lyndhurst) is involved in an integrated value chain with a single customer focus; all the others service a wide range of clientele on a short order, just-in-time basis.
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Seafood Processing. Seafood processing in Fiji is estimated to include approximately 10 larger enterprises: Solander Pacific Ltd, Golden Ocean, TriPacific (A Division of Foods Pacific), Sea Quest, Hangton Pacific, PAFCO, Daishin Seafood Group, Tosa Bussan, Viti Foods and Fiji Fish Marketing Group. These enterprises undertake a variety of value addition activites, including filleting, portion control (for example, sushi and sashimi products), heat treating (cooking, canning, retort pouch), and incorporation of fish in more complex food items. Some of these enterprises have recently gained certification under a variety of market compliance programmes (including ISO 2000 Quality certification, European Union, and USDA processing regulations, and MSC certification) that make the finished product suitable for wide global markets including Europe, North America and Asia. Food Processing. Food processing in Fiji is dominated by larger multi-enterprise organisations such as Punjas, FMF, Foods Pacific, Food Processors Fiji, and Goodman Fielder. With the exception of those in the dairy sector (which MDF does not include in its portfolio, as several support programmes already exist to assist dairy), most of these enterprises operate on the basis of adding value to imported raw materials, for both the domestic market and for other Pacific Islands. A number of the food processing enterprises (for example, Punjas) are also involved in product distribution and/or have strong links with the formal retail sector both in Fiji and other Pacific Islands. Information processing. There are around five information processing enterprises in Fiji, the most prominent being ANZ Pacific Operations, Mind Pearl and Sublime Pacifica. Discussions with representatives from these operations reveal that the industry has gone through strong growth periods and in recent times has undergone a process of consolidation in order to ensure that business processes are robust. The general opinion is that Fiji has a lot to offer global and domestic customers looking for voice and data processing support
Logistics Providers Logistics providers play an important role in this sector as they provide the mechanisms for import of raw materials, distribution to domestic destinations and export to off-shore customers. The significant providers are: Manufacturing. The most important category is freight forwarders; companies include DHL International (Fiji) Ltd, Carpenters Shipping, Williams and Gosling Ltd, Air Pacific Ltd, CDP Services Ltd, EMS Courier Post, Freight Services (Fiji) Ltd. There is also a handful of air and sea freight organisations (less than ten) providing freight services to freight forwarders. Import/export documentation requirements with which exporters and freight forwarders need to comply can be a constraint to sector performance. The Fiji Export Council (the principal council for exporters) is charged with improving freight documentation and handling procedures (in conjunction with logistic providers). Information Processors. Communications providers include Telecom Fiji Ltd (domestic transmission of voice and data services), Fiji International Telecommunications Ltd (FINTEL) (the supplier of international voice and data services into and out of Fiji), and Vodafone Fiji Ltd and Digicel (providers of mobile telecommunications services).
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Wholesalers and Retailers The Fijian wholesale, distribution and retail sector can be characterised as wide and competitive, especially when compared with markets like Australia and New Zealand, where a limited number of actors operate within economies with far greater populations. There are ten to fifteen operators in the Fijian market, with inter-linkages between some of them. Major wholesalers/distributors. These include Carpenters Fiji Ltd, Motibhai & Co Ltd, Pacific Brands (Fiji) Ltd, Punja & Sons Ltd, and Tappoo Ltd. Major retailers. These include Cost U Less, Courts, Food 4 Less, Foodtown, Jacks, Morris Hedstrom, Motibhai, New World, R. B. Patel, Rajendra's, Foodtown, Tappoo, and Vinod Patel.
End Customers End customers across this sector are diverse and exhibit a range of characteristics: Manufactured garments customers:
are principally garment sellers located in target markets (currently Australia and New Zealand); require short order, just-in-time finished products; provide the manufacturer with design and quality specifications; require factories to be operated in compliance with international labour standards;
Processed seafood customers:
are principally traders and retailers located in developed markets (e.g. Europe, North America, Asia) able to pay for quality value added products; require products to be manufactured to stock item specification (or occasionally to order); require products to comply with both international and company-specific food safety specifications and quality standards; usually accept products designed by the manufacturer but may work together to develop customer-specific products; require compliance with international industry (e.g. MCS) and labour standards; buy finished products and do not participate in financing input stock.
Processed food customers:
are principally a wide range of consumers located in Fiji or the Pacific Islands; require branded, company-designed, retail-ready products, readily accessible at all levels of retail format; require products designed and compliant with relevant market food processing and labelling legislation. Information processing customers:
are global businesses which require efficient delivery of voice and data processing services, principally in the English language; need to be able to clearly define the business processes that they need delivering; need to participate in development of specific (often confidential) training programmes for implementation by the information processing provider; are likely to be medium-sized rather than large businesses. 28 Market Development Facility
Support Services Actors in Fiji’s export processing industries utilise a variety of support services provided by both public and private organisations. The main support services are described below. Human resources. Under the Levy Grants Framework, all organisations operating in Fiji are obliged to pay one per cent of their gross payroll to the Fiji National University (FNU) for training and development. The levy is administered by the National Training and Productivity Centre (NTPC), an operating arm of FNU, and is used for the training and development of employees at all levels, from operational staff through to chief executive officers and the board of directors. Enterprises that can demonstrate they have conducted in-house training (either using internal or outsourced resources) can claim back up to 90 per cent of the levy contributed. Training can be delivered by private or public sector providers. In the public sector:
universities provide high level short and long courses; NTPC itself delivers a wide range of basic vocational courses; Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC, a DFAT initiative) provides targeted courses in the trade and hospitality sectors equivalent to the Australian certificate Level 3 qualification.
There are very few private sector training organisations in Fiji, and it is common either for middle and upper management to travel internationally for courses or for overseas providers to deliver courses in Fiji. Representatives of enterprises visited in the course of this study indicated their particular concern in two areas: skills upgrading of operational staff and availability of appropriate courses for middle management. A number of the larger enterprises visited retain in-house human resources departments responsible for labour recruitment and training. While some private sector executive support services exist, the survey team was unable to discover service sector organisations able to assist sector enterprises to recruit operational labour. APTC has recently undertaken a training needs assessment of Fiji’s fashion design industry. The outcome is still under consideration but it is understood the programme may proceed with the development of a certificate Level 3 course in fashion design. Since APTC is also an Australia government-funded programme, MDF will need to ensure that appropriate linkages are made between itself and APTC, and that any interventions are not run at cross-purposes. Packaging. Producers of paper and plastic packaging in Fiji include:
Golden Manufacturers (a significantly-sized enterprise producing a wide range of cardboard cartons for Fijian manufacturers); Combined Manufacturers (a division of Punjas Group produces cardboard cartons); Punjas & Sons Plastics (a division of Punjas Group produces plastic bottles); Narsey Plastics (a significantly-sized enterprise producing a wide range of plastic packaging for Fijian manufacturers). A number of printers in Fiji produce small packaging and labels. High quality packaging (for instance barrier plastic bags, cans, retort pouches) and high quality printing are generally sourced off-shore, as the Fijian market is too small to support the level of investment required. Finance and investment. Discussions with banking professionals indicate that there is currently a high level of liquidity in the banking industry and that export processing enterprises generally report no problems in accessing investment or working capital on acceptable terms. In 2012, commercial 29 Market Development Facility
banks had total outstanding loans of FJD2990 million, with loan portfolios of FJD240 million (8%) in manufacturing and FJD82 million (2.7%) in professional business services. The Fiji Development Bank (FDB), which provides finance and advisory services to assist in Fiji’s economic development, had in 2012 a total loan portfolio of FJD325 million, with loan portfolios of FJD40 million (12.3%) in manufacturing and FJD2.2 million (0.7%) in business and professional services. Investment Fiji is the body through which the Fijian government provides a wide range of investment support initiatives and incentives for both foreign and domestic investors. In 2012, Investment Fiji had 12 proposed projects in the seafood and manufacturing sector with a total proposed investment of FJD80 million. Implementation rates for proposed projects are however only around 10 to 15 per cent (2010/11). Technology and technology support. There is no effective technology development or research and development being carried out in Fiji that is relevant to the product/market complexes considered in this report. Technology is sourced from overseas; in recent years, enterprises have increasingly turned to technology sourced from Asia rather than Australasia, the European Union or North America. Fijian enterprises tend to investigate technology options through visiting international exhibitions dedicated to the relevant industrial sectors. Technology support is of concern to many of the enterprises visited in the field study, and equipment choices are at times compromised by the ability to source adequate and timely technology support services. It is common for support services (apart from those related to basic maintenance) to be sourced from Australia or New Zealand, essentially because of proximity.
Rules and Regulations Labour and employment. Rules involving labour and employment are administered by Fiji’s Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment. For the relevant regulations covering employment, factory work, training, health and safety, industrial associations and wages including wages regulations particularly relevant to employment in manufacturing refer to Annex 4. Market Access. Market access arrangements for Fiji are negotiated by the Ministry for Industry and Trade with input from the relevant sectors. Industry-level organisations that are important to the development of appropriate market arrangements include: Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation (FCEF); Fiji Exporters Council (FEC); Fiji Chamber of Commerce; TCF Council (specifically for garments); Fiji Tuna Boat Owners’ Association’s (FTBOA) and Fiji Off-shore Fishing Association (FOFA) (seafood). Standards and Compliance. Fijian enterprises encounter high expenses when working to attain international quality compliance standards: there are no auditing or certifying organisations in Fiji itself, and training, auditing and certification services therefore have to be sought from accredited organisations based in Australia or New Zealand. International certifying organisations that have been used in Fiji included SAI Global, SGS and ISO Global. An exception is the “Make It In Fiji” certification system, which supports Fiji’s garment sector. Developed with the assistance of an Australian Government supported training and support programme, this is implemented and administered by the TCF Council.21 However, even this system uses auditing services sourced offshore.
21 Fiji
Textiles Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Training and Productivity Support Program, 2007-2010.
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2.3 Public Sector Presence in the System With the Australian government adopting a re-engagement strategy with Fiji, MDF is currently exploring options on how and where to work with public sector entities within its selected sectors. To this end, it will undertake a study of what constraints and opportunities lie within the MDF sectors, and implement interventions accordingly.
2.4 International Presence in the System Donor Country Activities When compared to agriculture, fisheries, horticulture and primary industry, donor country activity in the Fijian export processing sector is extremely limited. Training activities (such as those provided by APTC) help improve essential trade skills development for maintenance and service staff in manufacturing enterprises. However, APTC training does not directly develop skills important to the operation and management of manufacturing systems. The information processing sector relies on access to employees with sound education; again, the support provided by donor country activities is indirect, that is, they may contribute to a good general education base, rather than directly target the training of potential employees in the sector. The most recent significant donor country activity referred to in discussions with industry actors which was directly related to either the manufacturing or the information processing sector was the TCF support package provided by DFAT (then AusAID), which came to an end in 2010.
European Union The European Union has adopted a comprehensive set of development initiatives to help promote economic development within Fiji. With the phasing out of preferential pricing and market access, EU initiatives are mainly targeted at the sugarcane belt of the country largely with a view to improving non-sugarcane economic activities (such as assisting in crop diversification and facilitating access to finance for non-sugarcane farmers).
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PART TWO: SECTOR GROWTH STRATEGY
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Chapter 3: Main Findings of the Assessment 3.1 Summary of Main Findings This study concludes that the greatest potential for MDF impact in the third sector lies in contributing to employment in export-processing enterprises, and that this employment is likely to involve the urban poor. Based on the sector assessment, the following table was prepared: Table 8: Sector Overview and Opportunities Product/ Market
Overview
Principal Opportunities
Principal Constraints
Garment Manufacture
Garment manufacturing is buoyant and anticipates good growth based on competitive advantage incorporating short order products, just-in-time manufacturing and good customer service, particularly with reference to export to Australia and New Zealand.
- Improved sub-sector and enterprise level marketing to promote Fijian apparel business model - Development of MSG market - Growth in fashion garments
- Labour availability and skills for both floor operatives and middle management - Market access changes, particularly into Australia
Call Centres and Back Office Processing
This is a recently developing business activity for Fiji and its foundation lies on good connectivity. Fiji has good language and literacy skills and is in a good time base to provide call centre and back office processing services to a wide variety of markets.
- Targeting of specific countries to supply services - Promotion of literacy, productivity and quality advantages
- Making potential customers aware that Fiji is open for business - Development of labour skills
Fish Processing
Fiji is capable of growing its fish processing businesses on the basis of providing skills and infrastructure, to be a fish processing hub for the Pacific utilising cheaper labour to process value added products for sophisticated markets.
- Utilisation of MSC certification and sound QA practices to produce value added fish products - Develop new products
- EU EPA agreement to include global sourcing - Sustainability of fishing resource.
Food Processing
Capable food companies are based on imported raw materials for value addition in Fiji for supply to domestic and Pacific Island markets (a limited range of products are co-packed for the Australian market).
- Increase market share in MSG markets - Develop and promote short order, just-in-time manufacturing capabilities - Develop new products
- Shipping logistics for raw material import and finished product export - Increasing labour and utilities costs
Potential Employment Growth (5 years)
GREATER THAN 1000
GREATER THAN 1000
500 TO 1000
250 TO 500
3.2 Challenges for Export Processing Sector Growth There are a number of challenges to export processing industry growth. These vary according to product/market activity and include: Visibility and marketing: There is a need (identified by enterprises themselves) to improve visibility and marketing in off-shore markets. Both the garment manufacturing and the information processing sectors have since 2009/10 developed new business models and gained increased confidence in their ability to deliver. There is now a need to develop techniques to improve visibility of such sectors. Market access: To promote economic trade across the Pacific regions a number of regulations and agreements have been drawn up. For example, the SPARTECA agreement provides access to selected products exported to Australia and New Zealand from Pacific member countries; the garment manufacturing sector has benefitted significantly from this agreement. Also as mentioned above, the MSG agreements have been designed to promote economic development through trade. Complying with such agreements to ensure market access remains a continual challenge for the exporters. 33 ď&#x201A;˝Market Development Facility
Technology and support services: Certain sub-sectors (such as garments manufacture and food processing) struggle to optimise their production efficiency and sometimes even to access markets owing to constraints related to poor technology and support services. Skills availability: Unavailability of labour and low skills adequacy applies generally across all sectors, but is particularly significant in the garment manufacturing and information processing sectors. This applies both to at factory floor and mid management level. Productivity and quality: There is a lack of availability of skills and services in the fields of industrial engineering and total quality management, essential to achieving best practice operations and competitive enterprises. Product design and development: In recent years, a number of enterprises have invested in plant, equipment and processes that are able to deliver a wide range of modern products. Product development however continues to be challenging for many of these enterprises, and applies to those products with wide market acceptance and which can be competitively produced in Fiji. Seafood processing, and garment and food processing all have the potential to develop new products. Regulation: Overall regulation in Fiji is a challenge to industry. Many food and hardware items are included in the Fiji Commerce Commission price control mechanism. Garment manufacturing has been able to implement systems under the Duty Suspension Scheme (DSS) administered by the FEC to improve the handling of duty arrangements on imported raw material which is re-exported. However, the DSS needs to be reviewed so that manufacturers that import raw ingredients for further processing and re-export can access a system similar to that available to the garment sector. Regulation review and implementation of e-documentation processes would be likely to assist to reduce regulatory burden. Supply chain. For some of the sub-sectors that rely on local supply under export processing, a disconnect exists between the exporter and the community sourcing it. Scope exists to introduce greater integration which would lead to improving the efficiency of the sub-sector; for example in the seafood sector, engaging the fishing community to source more sustainably from the sea allows the supply to increase, resulting in more produce available for exporters who face increasing demand from countries in Asia.
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Chapter 4: Key Constraints and Opportunities 4.1 Key Constraints MDF has identified a number of specific constraints which restrict growth opportunities for Fijiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s export- processing industries (see Table 99). Table 9: Key Constraints Constraint Area
MARKETING
Lack of visibility in key markets constrains growth
Explanation and Causes -
Logistics constraints contribute to export costs
-
Port congestion causing delays in clearing containers adds to exporter costs. Containers are sometimes poorly packed and this leads to products losses Documentation requirements and procedures are complex and require more resources than desirable.
Enterprise performance and productivity is less than desirable
-
Enterprises lack access to industrial engineering and Total Quality Management (TQM) skills and advice that are necessary to improve productivity and enterprise performance There is little implementation of manufacturing MIS, which could improve the ability to manage raw materials and the stock of finished products, and monitor production metrics. In-house skills available at middle management and supervisory levels are insufficient.
-
OPERATIONS
Labour availability and skills constrain growth
-
REGULATIONLATION & COMPLIANCE
-
SUPPLY CHAIN
The public sector appears largely unaware of the potential economic gains from value added manufacturing in Fiji; marketing support for the sector is close to zero. Public and private sector cooperation to promote the benefits of Fiji in target markets is lacking. The size of each product/market complexes makes it difficult to stimulate cooperative marketing approaches (with the exception of TCF Council initiatives). Fiji needs to develop a strong voice in developed market access negotiations. There is a general public sector attitude that the public sector knows what is best and industry input into tactical market access development is limited.
Despite significant unemployment, enterprises struggle to attract employees. There has been no adaption or development of employment conditions suitable for urban employees, especially women (e.g. childcare, job-share, working hours flexibility). While basic skills can be attained from in-house training programmes, there is little access to training that is able to up-skill factory employees. Enterprise level resistance to up-skilling exists, as it is seen to contribute to staff turnover (higher skilled workers are attractive to other enterprises).
Lack of service availability
-
While access to technology does not appear to be a problem access to support services often need to be sourced from off-shore (normally Australia or New Zealand).
Inconsistent investment support policies
-
Regular changes in investment support policies discourages investment. Development approval is complex and procedures are difficult to negotiate, meaning a) more resources are needed to gain project approval than desirable, and b) project implementation is often delayed.
Complex regulatory procedures
-
Complex regulatory procedures constrain efficient and effective value adding and re-export of imported raw material are complex and cumbersome. The public sector retains a perception that the private sector operates in interest groups that distort the market and is likely to abuse any simplification of regulations. Few relevant regulations have been recently reviewed and yet the development of the telecommunications sector has demonstrated the benefits of deregulation.
Certification and auditing to customer requirements constrains growth in demand
-
Price controls inhibit investment and innovation
-
-
-
Difficulty is sourcing raw material supply from within Fiji
-
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Insufficient numbers of Fijian manufacturing enterprises have in place internationally acceptable certification that meets customer needs for quality assurance, specification, corporate social responsibility and sector level standards. Due to the number of manufacturing enterprises in Fiji, enterprises need to source expensive certification and auditing skills from off-shore suppliers which results in resistance to adoption. The application of price controls to a wide variety of food and hardware products requires considerable executive time, limits returns on investment and constrains product innovation. Fear of the application of price controls is considered to impact on manufacturing investment decisions. Enterprises that utilise Fijian-produced raw materials have great difficulty in obtaining a regular supply of suitable products due to the lack of production enterprises with sufficient scale. It is extremely difficult to base successful manufacturing enterprise investment on supply of raw material from a largely informal production sector. Development of necessary intermediaries which collect and direct raw materials to appropriate utilisation is in its infancy (e.g. sourcing of virgin coconut oil, export-oriented horticulture products).
4.2 Opportunities to Address Key Constraints The opportunities to address these identified constraints, and around which MDFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy is built, are presented in Table 10 10 discussed below. Table 10: Intervention Areas and Potential Intervention Ideas Intervention area
MARKETING
Access: A wider range of export markets Promote: Benefits of working with Fijian enterprises Access: Appropriately skilled labour resources
OPERATIONS
Establish: Enterprise performance and productivity improvement Improve: Access to support services for technology and certification
REGULATION
Improve: Regulatory environment associated with investment in manufacturing and export
SUPPLY CHAIN
Improve: Access to Fijian raw materials
Opportunities Work to establish sub-sector level position papers on all market access issues, through the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. In particular to address: garment access issues into Australia, seafood access issues into North America, Europe and Asia including the ability to adopt global sourcing and increase in access under free trade arrangements for all products into the MSG member nations. In general, target markets are unaware that Fiji is open for business in these areas. There is a need to promote the benefits of working with Fijian enterprises in these sectors through, development and support of promotion activities, development and support of enterprise level promotion activities and working with industry organisations (e.g. FCEF, FEC, TCF Council, FTBOA, FOFA) to garner public sector support of initiatives. There are opportunities to work at enterprise and at sector level to gain access to an increased amount of improved, skilled workforce at both on-floor and middle management levels through ,better recruitment processes and resources, development of in-house and sector level training appropriate to each of the target sub-sectors, targeted utilisation of the training levy, development of alternative employment conditions where appropriate and establishment of employee services (e.g. childcare and transport assistance). There are opportunities to increase enterprise growth through improving enterprise productivity, efficiency, and performance through encouraging adoption of industrial engineering and total quality management processes, implementation of improved manufacturing MIS systems, development and adoption of appropriate productivity improvement methodologies, developing and implementing utilities efficiencies programme to reduce costs associated with fuel, electricity and water. Technology, certification and auditing services can be made more efficient and cost-effective by enterprises acting as a group to more effectively employ off-shore resources to assist Fijian companies in areas such as training, quality control, technical support, encourage the development of the technology support, certification and auditing sector in Fiji.
The regulatory environment surrounding investment in manufacturing and export is able to be improved through a series of activities by working with sector-level organisations such as FCEF and FEC to review and rework current regulations to improve procedures and take advantage of improved monitoring and auditing processes, develop and gain acceptance of electronic documentation lodgement and approval procedures and simplify development approvals and investment incentive procedures.
Improvement in the supply of Fijian-sourced raw materials will assist the growth of the food processing sector, thus in the short term there is a need to develop intermediaries that are able to provide a regular supply of consistent quality products to manufacturers. In the longer term there is a need to develop production models that are better able to supply manufacturers directly (this implies bigger agricultural production enterprises with all the known inherent constraints).
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Chapter 5. Sector Growth Strategy Based on these constraints and opportunities, MDF has devised an appropriate strategy for its work in Fiji’s export processing sector, presented in Table 111. Table 11: Sector Growth Strategy for Export Processing To increase export processing (and hence pro-poor urban employment and income) by stimulating investment in the export-processing industries, to increase the quality and efficiency of production, by improving access to skills, markets, support services, the business enabling environment and infrastructure. Constraint area
Markets to be influenced
Anticipated results if markets starts to work better
Type of potential partners
1.(Improve) market access through better visibility and product development.
Exporters benefit through promotion leading to more direct business-tobusiness linkage, thereby facilitating increased exports.
Improved products, improved promotion→increased market access (new niche markets, or deepen existing markets→higher export turnover→sustained growth contributing to increased employment.
Export companies, event organisers, BMOs.
2 (Improve/introduce) access to relevant and affordable skills and training.
Labourers/middle-managers in the export processing industries access training programmes to improve their capacity leading to higher-income jobs and more efficiency in enterprise. Training providers target exportprocessing industries.
Improved and affordable trainings→more skilled workforce →increased operational efficiency of enterprise→increased employment opportunities for local staff through improved employability→higher incomes for workers through occupying higher paid and higher skilled positions.
Export companies, training providers, universities.
3.(Stimulate/improve) Investment in new technology and support services.
Greater accesses to technology and support services allow enterprises to improve their efficiency and tap/deepen new/existing markets.
Investment in technology and/or support →improve product quality→Improved (new) market access→sustained growth contributing to increased employment.
Equipment resellers, banks, export companies.
4. (Establish/improve) supply chain of enterprise (seafood/food processing).
Communities are better integrated in supplying more produce to exporters; logistics work better to ensure inventories are at efficient level.
Communities know better supply requirements from exporter→ source better →communities earn more. Better logistics→improved supply chain→increased efficiency in production contributing to more export and employment.
Exporters, BMOs, logistic providers.
5. (Improve) public-private dialogue in the export processing sector around policies and regulations.
Dialogue between relevant parties, helps improve the quality of rules and regulations and there by promotes a more conducive environment.
Business enabling environment improve→reduced cost and risk of doing business+products more competitive→more investment in the sector→more sales, better margins→increased employment.
Representatives of the private sector, public institutions, development partners.
Facilitating growth/introduction of export-processing industries in Vanua Levu.
Export processing industries are encouraged to set up/expand production in Vanua Levu.
Additional employment and business activity on Vanua Levu →increased employment.
Exporters.
Stimulating investment/access to finance to exporters.
Investors/exporters invest in these sectors of exports and/or have access to better credit facilities to allow for expansion.
Increased export activity→increased production→additional employment.
Exporters, financial institutions, investment companies.
Poverty
Employment in these sectors of exports for poor urban households.
Increased employment of urban poor.
In principle, all of the above.
Gender
Employment in these sectors of exports opportunities for women.
Additional income at the disposal of women through existing employees (females) moving to better paid position: more women being hired.
In principle, all of the above.
Social Responsibility
More enterprise in these export sector exhibit great societal responsibility.
Improved compliance with social responsibility indicators.
In principle, all of the above.
Disability
Opportunities for disabled workers, in these export sectors.
Opportunities to be identified on a case-by-case basis in areas where additional employment is created.
In principle, all of the above.
Special Interest Area
Cross-cutting
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Chapter 6. Relevance for Pro-Poor Growth Significant rural-to-urban drift has been occurring in Fiji since the 1980s, as households search out better opportunities for income generation. The highest concentration of the poor live in the six tikinas22 of Naitasiri, Vuda/Lautoka, Labasa, Suva, Nadi, and Ba, where over 50 per cent of the rural poor live. While these tikinas include peri-urban and rural areas, there are relatively good transport links to the urban areas. However, there are insufficient jobs available, and many households which relocate to urban areas find it difficult to obtain employment. Export processing industries provide an opportunity to increase employment in urban areas, in particular for women in the garment manufacture and information processing sectors. At the same time, at the work floor level manufacturing jobs tends to require semi-skilled employees, and these can be sourced from poorer households. Information processing provides job opportunities for bettereducated workers, and it would be expected that a significant number of these will be sourced from poorer households, particularly those which have encouraged their children to complete secondary school level education. Securing the employment of these young people will also assist in the alleviation of household level poverty. MDF’s interventions will be designed in such a way that they encourage the employment of members of poorer households. Pro-poor results will be measured by determining:
additional income from employment; employment opportunities being created in urban areas to address urban poverty; levels of household wellbeing resulting from having more disposable household income;
22 In Fijian, number of villages clustered together is called a tikina
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Chapter 7: Relevance for Cross-Cutting Themes 7.1 Gender Equality MDF pays special attention to the role of women in the market, and in particular to the factors that influence their ability to participate in the workforce. MDF investigated the role of poor men and women in the urban environment in its Poverty and Gender Study conducted last year (2013). It will further investigate the roles of women and their involvement within the sector as the need arises and use this as a basis to develop its plan of action to address gender concerns. From the MDF Poverty and Gender Study, it is evident, that a large portion of workers in the garments and ICT sector are females. As such the new jobs to be created in export processing are likely to benefit more women than men. Consequently through its interventions, MDF expects to benefit disproportionately more women then men employed within these sub sectors; through skill building measures, it is likely that existing females employees will have more scope to move up to better paid positions within the same industry/ sector. However, in terms of upward mobility, MDF role may need to ensure that training program providers and recruiters provide equal opportunities to both women and men. The MDF Poverty and Gender Study indicated that mobility and thereby access to information is different for men and women living in the settlements. MDF also intends to investigate further to what extent flexibility of work hours as (preferred by poor women) is something that van be built in export processing industries. Finally, MDF will also collect gender-disaggregated data on its effective outreach and use it to target beneficiaries, and to identify further additional income and employment opportunities generated through its interventions.
7.2 Environmentally Sustainable Business MDF will work according to its in-house environmental guidelines and those set down by the government of Fiji; in addition, it will actively pursue interventions with positive environmental impact. MDF will conduct environmental impact assessments for each intervention it carries out to ensure that all impacts on the environment are accounted for and addressed.
7.3 Socially Responsible Business (including Disability) MDF will wherever possible promote socially responsible business practices, including the incorporation of persons with a disability. Some tasks in export processing can be carried out by individuals with disabilities and these opportunities will be discussed as activities are developed with project partners.
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Annex 1: List of Interviews
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As part of this assessment, between April and July 2013, interviews and discussions were held with representatives from the following organisations: Aquaculture:
Tripacific Marine Limited Solander (Pacific) Limited Golden Ocean Fish Limited
Bath and body care:
Mokosoi Products (Fiji) LImited Pure Fiji Pty Limited
Building and construction:
Standard Concrete Industries Limited Mahogany Furniture Ba Industries Limited Dominion Wire & Cables Limited
Businesses active in information processing and communications:
Digicel Fiji ANZ Pacific Operations Limited Mindpearl Sublime Pacifica Limited
Business Membership Associations:
Fiji Commerce and Employers Federations Fiji Exporters Federation Textile Clothing and Footwear Council
Financial institutions and services :
Fiji Development Bank Asian Development Bank Investment Fiji Westpac
Food Processing:
Punjas FMF Foods Limited
Garment industries:
Ranjit Garments Limited United Apparel (Fiji) Limited Mark One Apparel Limited Lyndhurst Limited Fiji Danam (Fiji) Limited
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Jack’s Garments Limited
Logistics:
Williams and Gosling Limited
Packaging industries:
Golden Manufacturers Narsey’s Plastics
Training Centres:
National Training and Productivity Centre
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Annex 2: List of Export Manufacturers
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Company
Website
Artwave Fiji Ltd
Manufacture Garments
Ashm and Rehana Investment t/a Rainbow Garments Best Promotions
www.bestpromotionsfiji.com
Phone
Fax
Mobile
Contact Person
679-670 2645
Address
City
Desription
28 Cawa St
Nadi
Artwave is a boutique Garment Manufacturer in Fiji. Our customers are the Apparel resort boutiques throughout the 1e1epacific region. We have our own range of resortwear and swimwear. Ideally we would like to do more manufacture for other labels. Rainbow Overalls, Rainbow Rainwear, Rainbow Dustcoats Apparel
6680390/9995530
Subsector
bestpromotions@unwired.com.fj +679 3301929
Based in the heart of Suva City, Best Promotions/ Brighton Garments is a 100% Apparel Fiji owned and operated clothing manufacturer & Promotional Item supplier. Offering a complete manufacturing service, from purchasing suitable fabric,cutting, sewing, quality control, screen printing & embroidery services
Footwear Industries Limited
raman@dahia.com.fj
3383283/9994626
Footwear Manufacturers Ltd. Kalacraft (Fiji) Ltd Mark One Apparel Limited
raman@dahia.com.fj kalacraft@connect.com.fj mark@markone.com.fj
3383283/9994626 (679) 6640411 3394011
Mens Safety Shoes, Ladies Safety Shoes, Work Boots, Mens Dressing Shoes, Ladies Uniform Shoes, Dahia Pacific Range Sole Integrity Sandals Garments Business shirts, Working Shirts, Men’s/Boys Shorts, Women’s Tops, Men’s Shirts, Men’s Garment, Men’s Shirts, Knitted Jersey
jiten@nagsun.com.fj pillaygarments@hotmail.com
+ 679 6701396 679 3341699
kalpesh@ranjit.com.fj
+ 679 679 3385088
kalpesh@ranjit.com.fj
3385088/9925244
breakers@connect.com.fj
+ 679 3304277 679-3380255
Nagsun Apparel Fiji Ltd Pillay Garments
www.nagsunapparelfiji.com
Ranjit Garments (Fiji) Limited
www.ranjit.com.fj
Ranjit Garments Ltd. RJS Breakers (Fiji) Shoeworld (Fiji) Ltd
FootwearShoeworld (Fiji) Ltd
Southern Cross Textiles Fiji Ltd
Tropical Garments (Fiji) Ltd United Apparel (Fiji) Limited Unitex Garments Water Wear Fiji Ltd
www.tropicalgarments.com
679 3371239
info@tropicalgarments.com kaushik@unitedapparel.com.fj unitex@connect.com.fj
+ 679 679 3301131 3394855/9924855 3304402 679-6725040
Children GarmentWater Wear Fiji Ltd
Westpace Apparels Limited
YKK Oceania Ltd Fiji Branch Aldex Trading
sct@connect.com.fj
www.ykkfastening.com Timber, flooring, logsAldex Trading
Azaad Construction Company Ba Industries Ltd.
westpace@connect.com.fj
6694964/9921266
jay.kalyan@ykk.com.fj
(679) 3385699 679-679-3383899
azaadco@connect.com.fj sanjay.badgujar@bil.com.fj
Baravi Logging
Native Timberbaravi logging
Bluescope Lysaght (Fiji) Ltd
www.bluescopesteel.com
Bolok Ltd
Timber, Wrought IronBolok Ltd
CRP Industries Limited Sawn PineDuavata Forest Products
Fiji Industries Ltd
www.fijicement.com.fj
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Laucala Beach
679 3387354 679 9921247 Kiran Hari
3300352
9248051
Autocity Place
Raiwaqa, Suva
Lot 11 Auto City Centre,Off Grantham Rd
Suva
Vikash Narayan 23 High St Toorak Lot 3 Deo Street Namaka
71-moala Street Samabula
Suva Nadi
Suva
Lot 16 Ravouvou St
Lautoka
sustina.kamali@bluescopesteel.com.fj (679) 3382 388
josese@basic.com.fj
679-9925909
Wekamu Subdivision
6674633/9999300/9 999429 679-6207032
2 Kava Place Waiyavi Stage 2 Lautoka
+ 679 3361133
Garment Manufacture & Screen Printing Enterprise We specialise in high quality woven uniforms from corporate, industrial, hospitality, and school. We have low minimum order qty, and are set up for quick response either on CMT or Full Gmt basis. Visit our website: www.ranjit.com.fj Stylo Coverall, Stylo Trousers, Stylo Shirt, Stylo, Dust Coat, Stylo Apron, Stylo Jacket/Blazers, Stylo Suits, Stylo Sulu, Stylo Shorts
8813699/9933931 6674966/9907248 679-9976569
Bhavesh@rcmanubhai.com.fj
Duavata Forest Products
679 3341695 679 9921694 Narendra pillay 18 Bulei Rd L.B.E
Nadi
Support Program
Garments
Fijian Made
Apparel
Fijian Made
Apparel Apparel Apparel
Fijian Made Fijian Sewn
Apparel Apparel Apparel
Apparel
Fijian Sewn
Apparel We are footwear manufacturer in Fiji and export to Australia, new Zealand and Apparel png.We have surpluse machinery for footwear manufacturing and willing to sell those machinery to portential buyer or persons. Manufacturers & Exporters Of Quality Garments. Southern Cross Textiles Fiji Apparel Ltd was established in 1995. It was the passion for providing a unique garment for horse riding and the purpose was initially was to produce specialized equestrian apparel for the Australian, USA and European markets.
Shorts, Shirts, Blouses, Skirts, Jacket, Vest, Dress, Trousers, Ladies Pants Garment Industry Water wear was established on 1997 and was rewarded as the best year exporter in year 1999 we picked up very fast but we still want to build and here is the opportunity to make our success please not hesitate to contact any of us we are wel Sports Uniforms, School Uniforms, Shorts ,Shirts, Tops ,Dresses ,Shirts ,Sulu, Trousers,Sulu Chamba, skirts ,Pullovers, Pleaded Netball Skirts ,Fleecy Track pants ,Skirts Elastic, Zippers, Draw Cord and button dying (to match your material) Manufacturers of Timber and down proccessing of all kinds of Timber. Export logs, flooing, decking etc. Our company export 1000CBM per month to Australia and NZ. We also do any kind of profiles or custom made products for your needs. Concrete Block, Concrete Washtub ,Concrete Flower Pot Galvanized Nails, Barbed wire, Galvanized Punched Strapping, Galvanized Chain link We have been logging native timber for local market. We supply timbers to exporters and retailers based in Fiji. We have timbers like mahogany, dakua, kwuila, buabua etc, and we looking for international market. We specialize in the manufacture and supply of roofing products and steel building solutions (peb) we also supply the following : steel purlins & girts cyclonic fasteners walling & fencing solutions aquatough water tanks rainwater goods insulations natural lighting & ventilation solutions Over the past five years Bolok has established an international manufacturing base that utilizes some of the finest materials and expertise from around the world. Wire mesh, Galvanized mesh , Goat fence, pig fence, Reinforcing wire rod For affordable, very cheap, and quality Native Fiji Timber, and Pine we are willing to provide. We have two native forest and numerous Pine plantation licences. We are waiting for anyone who is intereseted in these type of timber, we will supply them to you. Cement and cement blocks
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Apparel Apparel Apparel Apparel
Apparel
Footwear
Fijian Made Childrens Garments
Fijian Made
Apparel Construction
Construction Construction
Fijian Made Fijian Made
Construction
Timber
Construction
Construction
Construction Construction
Construction
Timber, Wrought Iron Fijian Made Timber
Gulam Mohammed Holdings Limited
Mahogany DeckingPride Mahogany Fiji (c/o Gulam Mohammed Holdings Limited)
679-3412786
Gulam Place
Nakasi, Suva
Heritage Timber Exports.
Mahogany TimberHeritage Timber Exports
679-9182038
P. O. Box 13529
Suva
Kalebasoga Tropikboards Ltd
vtbl@connect.com.fj
679 8814286
Korotivi Investment Enterprize
Pine logs, sandalwoodKorotivi Investment Enterprize
679-8811075
Nai's Investment Company.
Sandalwood,Pine LogsNai's Investment Company UreaPemate Investments Ltd
679-956-9990
Pemate Investment Ltd Roofing and Profiles Fiji Limited
679---3343390 Bhavesh@rcmanubhai.com.fj
6674633/9999300/9 999429 679-3385778
Sandalwood Fiji Ltd
SandalwoodSandalwood Fiji Limited
Scud Timber (Fiji) Ltd
Mahogany Sawn TimberScud Timber (Fiji) Ltd
679-00-9925949
Standard Concrete Industries STIA Forest Invetments Ltd
www.standardconcretefiji.com umesh.kumar@basic.com.fj We log and supply sawn timber, especSTIA FOREST INVESTMENT LTD
(679) 3395511 679-6722 051
Technix Bitumen Pacific Ltd Timber and Block works Wudz Products (Fiji)Limited.
technix@technix.com.fj vdayal@northpole.com.fj Parquat Floors, Wall PanelsWudz Products (Fiji)Limited
(679) 3312678 8818008/7777227 679-339`1447
Biscuit Company of Fiji Ltd.
poonamk@fmf.com.fj
3301188/9978250
FMF Snax Limited
poonamk@fmf.com.fj FMF Thumps Up Chips (Potato, Dalo, Cassava) FMF Chow Noodles anup@foodprocessors.com.fj
3301188/9978250
Food Processors (Fiji) Ltd.
Foods Pacific Limited & Group of Companies Meat,Ingredients,Spices
Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and Development
Ganga Limited Goodman Fielder Ltd. Goodman Fielder Ltd. International Trade Co Ltd
Hot Masala, Palau MasalaGanga Limited shaun.Joils@gfinternational.com. au shaun.Joils@gfinternational.com. au Xanthan Gum, Food AdditivesICD International Trade Co.,Ltd
Novel Distributors Limited Novel Distributors Limited
harishp@ashabhai.com.fj harishp@ashabhai.com.fj
Punja & Sons Rice Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
Lot 26 Ritova Street
Labasa Labasa
Manufactures of Veneer,Plywood,Custom Moulding, Flooring, linning, decking, Saw Timber for local & export market,and modern furniture My company based at labasa fiji head quater and we are buying sandalwood allover fiji and we are setting up sawmill for pine and other local timber products. Apart from that we are a land developer and real estate agent marketing fiji properties world wide.
Labasa P. O. Box 1429
Nabua, Suva
87 Belo Street Samabula
Suva
Vatuwaqa Industrial Sub Division
Suva
Lot 2 Savunawai Subdivision Nadi Airport
13 Pritam Singh Rd Nasinu
Suva
Pemate Investment Ltd is established mainly to export Fiji-Mahogany to other parts of the world. Water Tanks, Meter Box, Bridgings, Trays, Distribution Box, Roofing iron and Cladding, Purlins, Zincaneal Flat Iron, Roofing Accessories We have 500 hectares of sandalwood and hold the exclusive licence from the government of Fiji islands to extract and sell heartwood from sandalwood. The white sandalwood in Fiji is named santalum. Yasi. Our company deals exclusively in the harvesting and processing of mahogany (Sweitenia Macrophylla.spp) sawn timber, air dried and graded to meet NHLA grading requirements.The mahogany are sourced from plantation forests in the Fiji Islands which are over 40 years old.
Construction
Mahogany
Construction
Mahogany
Construction Construction
Timber
Construction
Sandalwoo d Mahogany
Construction Construction
Sandalwoo d
Construction
Mahogany
Construction Our company called STIA FOREST INVESTMENT LTD, is an indigenous owned Construction operation with more than 50,000 acres of forest plantation, which is capable of logging close to 500,000m3 of logs or equivalent to produce 400m3 of logs per week for about 25 to 30 years. Construction Household Furniture , Concrete Blocks Construction Construction
FmF Cookies, FmF breakfast Crackers, FmF Kremo, fmf Scotch Finger, FmF Food Made Tymo, FmF Namkeen, FmF Mobile Phone, FmF Kracker Snacker, FmF Milk Arrowroot, fmf Cabin cracker , FmF Fine Fare Breakfast Crackers, FmF Fine fare creams, FmF Fanfare Nice, FmF Fine fare Milk Coffee, Fmf Fine fare Ginger Nut, FmF Fine-fare family assorted, FmF Finefare creams assorted Food snacks Food Made
Food Made
3373483/9995639 679-665-1462
No. 171 Sdong Road
Food Made
6663181/9993181
67-9-9996415 3373483/9995639
3387393 3387393
6661633/9999924
Suva
We have been producing and exporting Xanthan GUm, Citric Acid, Citrate products (including Sodium Citrate, Potassium Citrate, Calcium Citrate) , Potassium Sorbate, Sorbic Acid and related food ingredients for more than 10 years. Jive Cheese, Jive Chicken, Jive BBQ, Jive Spicy Tomato Golden Harvest Self-Rising Flour, Golden Harvest Cocoa Powder ,Golden Harvest Corn Flour, Golden Harvest Baking Soda, Golden Harvest Rolled Oats ,Golden Harvest Cake Mix ,Golden Harvest Desiccated Coconut ,Golden Harvest Non-Pariels, Golden Harvest Sultana, Golden Harvest Pitted Dates, Golden Harvest Mixed Fruit, Golden Harvest Popping Corn, Golden Harvest Dairy Fresh Milk Powder, Vitafresh Original Orange, Vitafresh Orange Pineapple, Vitafresh Tropical, Vitafresh Mango, Vitafresh Navel Orange, Vitafresh Classic Lemonade, Novel Tea Punjas Long Grain Rice, Punjas Calrose Rice, Punjas Jasmine Rice
Fijian Made
Construction
Pacific Crown Sweet Tasty Tomato sauce, Pacific Crown Hot Chilli sauce, Pacific Crown Hot Chilli& Garlic Sauce, Pacific Crown Sweet Tasty Chilli Sauce, Pacific Crown Rich &Thick Tomato Puree Lot 30, Wailada Industrial Sub- Lami, Suva, Foods Pacific Limited and its Group of Companies consisting of Tripacific Division, Marine, and Pacific Feeds owned and headed by one of the Fiji Islands most successful local businessmen, the Groups Managing Director Mr Arvind Kant Patel affectionately known as George in the industry. Tamarind Chutney, Chili Chutney ,Sweet, Mango Chutney, Khatai Chutney, Mango Pickle, Chili Pickle Lime Pickle ,Star Apple Pickle, Honey Guava Jam, Marmalade, Mango Jam, Pineapple Jam ,Desiccated Coconut, Local Spices Tamarind Jam, Ambarella Kuchla, Rosella Jam 19 Bouwalu Street Lautoka Hot Masala, Palau Masala Tuckers Ice Cream, Twisties, Yumos, UFOs, Curlies, Sunshine Smooth & Crunchy Peanut Butter, Tuckers Jams, Crest Animal Feed Tuckers Cordial
679-336-2844
director@friendfiji.com
45IMarket Development Facility
3385322/9958024
679 8814154 679 9908785 Ravind Chandra Naiyaca Subdivision Labasa
Gulam Mohammed Holdings Limited is a Fiji based and Fiji owned company that deals with a wide range of products, our latest addition is the Mahogany Timber and Mahogany Logs that we are already supplying to Brisbane and China, we trade as Pride Mahogany Fiji in Sydney Australia.
Timber
Fijian Made Flooring
Fijian Made
Fijian Made
Fijian Packed
Food Made
Food
Food Made
Fijian Made
Food Made Food Made
Fijian Made
Food Made
Fijian Packed Gum & Food Additives
Food Made Food Made
Fijian made Fijian Packed
Food Made
Fijian Packed
Punja & Sons Wraps Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punja Flour Limited
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punja& Sons (Dairy) Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punja& Sons (Oils) Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punja& Sons (Spice) Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punjas Hot Chili Powder, Punjas Turmeric Powder, Punjas Chili Powder, Punjas Food Made Cumin (Jeera) Seeds, Punjas Ajwaine, Punjas Cassia (Dalchini) Whole, Punjas Cloves (Lawang), Punjas Cardamom (Elachi), Punjas Fennel Seeds (Saumph, Punjas Mustard Seed (Sarso), Punjas Nutmeg (Jaifar), Punjas sago Seeds, Punjas Sesame Seeds(Black Till), Punjas Sesame Seeds (White Till), Punjas Black Cumin (Mangrel), Punjas Dried Ginger (Whole), Punjas Blue peas, Punjas Chana (Whole), Punjas Masoor Dhal, Punjas Moong (Whole), Punjas Popcorn, Punjas Split Peas, Punjas Toor Dhal, Punjas Urdi (Whole), Punjas Urdi Dhal, Punjas Icicle Flavor, Punjas Drink Concentrate, Punjas Sugar Candy, Punjas Betel Nut (Supari), Punjas Sultanas, Punjas Hawan Samagri, Punjas Lohbaan, Punjas Sindoor, Punjas Fenugreek Seeds (Methi)
Punja& Sons Tea Ltd.
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
Punjas Ceylon Tea
icecream@connect.com.fj amendra.singh@cjpatel.com.fj
679-9513404 +679 6660086 3340084/9991424
Western Dairy Limited Bombay Sweets and Snacks Company
pff@connect.com.fj bscsweetshop@connect.com.fj
6720913/9255664 3301085
Bula Island Foods Ltd
bulaislandfood@connect.com.fj
6725580/9925580
Pyare Industries. Treats Ice Cream Ltd Viti Foods Ltd
spicesPyare Industries
Punjas Tortilla fresh Frozen , Punjas Roti Fresh, Frozen Punjas Roti Long Life, Punjas Wholemeal Roti Long Life, Punjas Bazaar Roti Long Life, Punjas Savante White Tortilla, Punjas Savante Whole meal Tortillas, Punjas Savante Soy & Linseed Tortilla, Punjas Savante Chilli & Garlic Wrap, Punjas Savante Onion & Parsley Wrap, Punjas Savante Coriander & Cumin Wraps, Punjas Bazaar Tortilla white, Punjas Bazaar Tortilla Whole meal , Punjas Bake Stone Deli Chili & Garlic Tortilla, Punjas Bake Stone Deli Pesto & garlic Wrap, Punjas Bake stone Deli Sundried Tomato & oregano Wrap, Punjas Bake Stone Deli soy & Linseed Tortilla, Punjas Bake Stone deli Coriander & Cumin Wrap, Punjas Bake stone Deli Multigrain Tortilla, Punjas Bazaar Fresh Tortilla Punjas Normal Flour, Punjas Bakers Flour, Punjas Self Raising Flour, Punjas Semolina, Punjas Whole Meal Flour, Punjas Atta Flour, Punjas Noodle Flour, Punjas Wheat Brand, Punjas Breakfast Crackers, Punjas Mill Mix Red Cow Milk Powdered, Punjas Instant Milk Powder, Punjas Instant Skim Milk Powder, Punjas Ghee, Punjas Vanaspati Punjas Soya Bean Oil, Punjas Canola Oil, Punjas Mustard Oil
Labasa
Suva manufacturing of various flavored Ice Cream,stick ice and cones Skipper Tuna Premium Flakes 170g Blue Label, Skipper Tuna Premium Flakes 425g Blue Label, Skipper Tuna Flakes 170g Red Label ,Skipper Tuna Flakes 170g Red Label, Skipper Yellow Fin Tuna Premium Flakes Yellow Label, Skipper Tuna Premium Premium Chunks 170g Blue Label, Skipper Albacore Tuna Flakes in Olive Oil 170g Gold Label, Skipper Albacore Tuna Chunks in Olive Oil 170g Gold Label, Angel Red Mackerel in Oil 425g, Angel Red Mackerel in T/S 425g , Angel Yellow Mackerel in Oil 425g, Angel Yellow Mackerel in T/S 425g, Angel Gold Mackerel in Oil 425g, Angel Gold Mackerel in T/S 425g, Seaking Mackerel in Oil 425g , Seaking Mackerel in T/S 425g, Kusima Mackerel in Oil 425g , Kusima Mackerel in T/S 425gBlue , Ocean Mackerel in Oil 425gBlue, Ocean Mackerel in T/S 425g, Perfect Choice Mackerel in Oil 425g, Perfect Choice Mackerel in T/S 425gCoca , Mackerel in Oil 425g, Coca Mackerel in T/S 425g, Angel Mackerel Flakes in Oil 425g, Angel Mackerel Flakes in T/S 425g3 , Star Mackerel in T/S 425g, 888 Mackerel in T/S 425g, Talofa Mackerel in T/S 425g, Hello Mackerel in T/S 425g Ribbon Pasta, Yoplate Yogurt Indian Fried Snacks and Sweets (Peas, Peanuts, Dhal, Potato Chips, Dalo Chips, Muruku, Sao, Nimkis, Papadums, Barafi, Ladoo, Gulab Jamun, Cassava Chips)
CoconutFiji.
Coconut,kavaCoconutFiji
679-8639100
89 Nailuva road
suva
Combine Freight Services
Kava Products
679-666-2983
Simla Fiji Islands
Nadi / Suva / Lautoka / Savusavu
10 Hibiscus Rd
Nadi
Dayal Industries Limited Euro Pacific Ltd
jayd@islandchill.com sea cucumber,frozen fishEURO PACIFIC LTD
46IMarket Development Facility
6675605/9929629 679-9926625
Food Made
Fijian Made
Food Made
Fijian Made
Food Made
Fijian Packed Fijian Packed Fijian Packed
Food Made
Food Made Food Made Food Made Food Made
Fijian Packed Spices Fijian Made
Food Made Fijian Made Food Produced Fijian Made
Taro, Yams, Cassava, Dalo ni Tana, Taro Leaves, Cassava Leaves, Rosella Leaves Food Produced Fijian ,Paan Leaves, Bell Leaves, Drumstick Leaves, Fresh Nuts, Frozen Cowpeas, Product Frozen Shredded Coconut Drinking Nuts, Papaya Frozen, ,Jackfruit Frozen, Chestnut Frozen Grated Cassava Leaves, Frozen Grated Cassava, Frozen Guar, Frozen Daruka, Frozen Curry piece, Breadfruit Frozen , belle leaves Frozen, cassava Frozen , Bongo Chilies Frozen, Drumstick Frozen, Fish Frozen, Pigeon Peas Frozen, Curry Piece Yams Frozen ,Amranthus Leaves Frozen, Chilies (Birdseye)Frozen ,Plantain Banana, Frozen Daruka. Food Produced Combine Freight Services provides a variety of services and products from the Food Produced Fiji Islands.CFS provides international freight forwarding services,customs clearance and delivery and Household Office and removals internationally and locally. Island Chill Water Food Produced Fijian Product Food Produced
Kava
Sea Cucumber
Food Processors (Fiji) Ltd.
Frezco Beverages Ltd
anup@foodprocessors.com.fj
Juice, tea, soap, capsulesFrezco Beverages Limited
Goodman Fielder Ltd. Hangton Pacific Co Ltd
Hangton Pacific Company Limited
Health Wonders Pacific Ltd.
Noni Juice, Noni TeaHealth Wonders Pacific Ltd
Home Made Pickles Ltd Lami Kava Ltd
3385322/9958024
679-679-9925 950
shaun.Joils@gfinternational.com. 3373483/9995639 au 679-3-319856
679-9464162
ashraf.daud@gmail.com Coconut, KavaLami Kava Limited
6670216
9921216
Nadi Airport
Lot 9 Rokobili Industrial Subdivision
Suva
8 Mika Drew
Namadi Heights, Suva Ba
15 Navatu St
Dalo,LemonPrabhakars & Fi's Marketing Supplies spicesPyare Industries
679-01-9289704
Koroipita
679-9513404
Labasa
Suva
Spices
Food Produced
Royal Noni (Fiji) Ltd
100% noni juiceRoyal Noni (Fiji) Ltd
679-666-0009
Lot 1 Nabare Rd Saweni
Lautoka
Royal noni,100% juice is available in 1 liter and 500ml bottles. Each 1 liter bottle is approximately 1 Month supply, if taken once a day. Eggs, Poultry
Food Produced
Sea Floor Sea Food.
notherneggs@yahoo.com Coconut productsOrganic Earth (Fiji) Ltd
Pacific Fishing Company Ltd.
BSingh@pafcofiji.com
Satens Poultry
ssaten29@yahoo.com
3343776/7546400/7 071243 9211060/9653258 679-3370167
Karsanji Street
3343860/9908756
9366585
Sea Floor Sea Food
Sea Cucumber
679-7437898
45 Vesi Street
Suva
Soluk Islands Fresh Co Ltd
Aquatic ProductsSoluk Islands Fresh Company Limited
679-3601092
271 Rewa Street
Suva
Talo Mada
Kava (un)pounded
679-00-382677
527 Ratu Mara Road
Tima Ltd
Fresh Taro
679-8880261
Waiyevo Junction
Tripacific Marine Ltd
Frozen Fish ProductsTripacific Marine Ltd
679-3361627
Gpo Box # 15184
Waitika
waitika@live.com
6282422/9925422
Western Dairy Limited
pff@connect.com.fj
6720913/9255664
chf@connect.com.fj
+679 3345 854
Yaqara Pastoral Company Limited Comfort Home Export Ltd
9929401 www.chf-group.org
Comfort Home Furnishings
himen@comforthomefurnishing. 3345854/9923259 com
Hanif Industries Limited Kinis Allied Industries Manubhai Industries Limited
hanifindustries786@hotmail.com 8811085/9221811 kinis@connect.com.fj 8818875/9240657 Bhavesh@rcmanubhai.com.fj 6674633/9999300/9 999429
47IMarket Development Facility
1c2 We are engeaged in beche de mer processing for years. We base in Suva, Fiji. All our products are from islands and we are linked with more than 10 islands in Fiji nation wide. Suva Our company registered in 1972 is one of Fijis pioneer kava dealers where our forefathers used to deal kava and other products.we have a retail and wholesale outlet based here in Nabua, Suva. Taveuni Tima limited is a family owned and operated entity operating out of taveuni in the Fiji islands. We are growers, wholesalers, and exporters of fresh and frozen taro. We have been exporting taro since the birth of fiji's taro industry way back in 1993. Lami, Suva Tripacific Marine Limited (TML), based in Fiji islands, has beenEstablished in 1996. The new state of the art factory, which is EU, approved HACCP certified, started operations in 2006. Waitika Honey Tropical Fruit Juice, Harrissa Basil Pesto, Sundried Tomato Pesto, Mint Chili Sauce, Corriander Pesto, Ravioli, Tortellini, Canneloni Pasta Honey Fijian Product, Meat-Beef We are Fiji's Largest Furniture Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Retailers and Exporters of Sleepmate Beds and Mattresses & Quality Mahogany Furniture Sleepmate inner spring and foam mattress, Sleepmaker inner spring and foam mattress, Kingkoil inner spring and foam Mattress, Waimea furniture, Franklin furniture, Cottage furniture Household Furniture Roselyn Settee ,Sleep On It Bed Mattress, inner spring mattress and furniture, Ropes of all sizes, Plastic products, Plastics EZKY Boxes
Noni
Fish
Noni
Food Produced
Prabhakars & Fi\'s Marketing Supplies. Pyare Industries.
Northern Eggs Farm t/a Northern Chickens Organic Earth (Fiji) Ltd
lapitahoney@connect.com.fj
16 Nukuwatu Street
Homemade Pickles
Lami, Suva We have an estimate 2000 acres of well nourished coconut plantation that has Food Produced been maintained for more than half a century and has been recently certified 5a8organic. Our coconut plantation is situated in a rich volcanic paradise island known as Taveuni in the Fiji Islands. Lapita Honey, Lapita Virgin coconut oil, Lapita handmade bath soap. Food Produced Fijian Product Eggs ,Chicken Food Produced Fijian Grown Suva Manufacturers of 100% coconut skincare products. Currently selling in the Fiji Food Produced market but looking for distributors overseas. Sunbell Tuna, Old Capital Tuna, Koro Sea, Ovalau Blue, Sunbell Mackerel Food Produced Fijian Product Lautoka Food Produced
LapitaMarketing Enterprises
679-336 1409
Musa Daud
PO Box 9303
Pacific Crown Coconut Cream, Pacific Crown Duruka, Pacific Crown Palusami, Food Produced Fijian Pacific Crown Bread Fruit, Pacific Crown Cleaned & Frozen Cassava, Pacific Product Crown Cleaned& frozen Dalo, Pacific Crown Precooked Ivi In Brine, Pacific Crown Bele in Brine, Pacific Crown Blanched & Frozen Bele Leaves, Pacific Crown Honey(Unprocessed), Pacific Crown Honey (processed), Pacific Crown Frozen Fish, Pacific Crown Frozen Taro Fries, Pacific Crown Blanched Frozen Chauraiya Leaves, Pacific Crown Blanched Frozen Pumpkin, Pacific Crown Partially Cooked Jackfruit, Pacific Crown Blanched Frozen Cowpeas Frezco beverages limitedFrezco is a beverage producer, basically into 'noni Food Produced juice' research&production. We are one of the largest bulk producers of noni juice from fiji. Our company specialises into other beverages as well like: Food drinks and soft drinks, natural mineral water. Crest Chicken Food Produced Fijian Grown The company established in 1998 and locate in Fiji southern Pacific and Food Produced specilised in tuna fishing vessel operating (11 vessel) , tuna processing (fresh and frozen) . Products mainly export to Japan, USA, and canneries. Food Produced
Coconut,kava
Coconut Products
Dalo
Noni
Food Produced Fijian Grown Food Produced Food Produced
Sea Cucumber Sea Cucumber
Food Produced
Kava
Food Produced
Taro
Food Produced
Fish
Food Produced Fijian Product Food Produced Fijian Product Food Produced Fijian Grown Furniture Furniture
Fijian Made
Furniture Furniture Furniture
Fijian Made Fijian Made Fijian Made
Modern Furniture
modernfurniturefiji.com
Poly Products (fiji) limited
Lighting, louvres, blindsPoly Products (Fiji) Limited
679-3385544
P. O. Box 5171
Raiwaqa, Suva
Unique Furniture
Furnitureunique furniture
679-6700262
Nawaka
Nadi
Herbex Ltd
certified organic noni juiceHERBEX LTD
679-6660387
17 Vesi Cres
Lautoka
Macuata Natural Products (Fiji) Mokosoi Products (Fiji) Ltd
www.mokosoi.com.fj
Ocean Soaps Limited
Organic Earth (Fiji) Ltd
Talo Mada Akanisi Vuiyasawa. Antioch-Pacific
Aquarian Exports Ltd Chemstreet Chemicals Limited
www.organicearthfiji.com
modern@connect.com.fj
+679 3397044
harishchand26@yahoo.com
8505545/9470980
theboss@mokosoi.com.fj
+ 679 679+3361400
gopal@punjas.com.fj
6661633/9999924
geeta@organicearthfiji.com
(679) 3370 167
Manufacturers of custom built modular kitchens, wardrobes, vanities, Furniture Mahogany Entrance Doors, Mahogany furniture and components, CAD used throughout the design process then machined with latest 3 axis state of the art CNC machinery. Poly products (fiji) limited is a wholesale and distributing company for window Furniture systems such as palmair louvres, altair louvres in the breezway louvre group. We have been into timber joinery for the last 30 years in da Fiji islands and Furniture have done projects in almost all creteria of joinery such as shopfittings resorts futniture kitchens. . etc. Noni juice, certified organic manufactured and bottled in our premises in Fiji. Body & Bath Our noni juice is HACCP audited and adheres to European Novel Food regulations. For Europe distribution we maintain a warehouse in Austria. We make certified organic noni juice from wild harvest noni fruit. This is the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree. Our company operates as a HACCP certified food processor. The HACCP auditor is SGS. Virgin Coconut Oil Body & Bath Mokosoi started in 1982 as a family owned business.The first in Fiji to manufacture a range of natural handmade soaps, creame, massage body oil, shampoo,conditioner and other range of products made from pure coconut and sold under the Mokosoi label. Wide range of Mokosoi products are sold globally. Coconut Oil Fijian Product, Body Guard Cleansing Bars, Pearl Natural Soap, Pearl Beauty Soap, Jasmine Soap, Pear Fruitals, Victory Laundary Bar Green/Orange/White/Blue, Naturally Fiji Lotions Range, Ocean Diwali Candles, Ocean Tower Candles, Ocean Fresh Air Deodorant, Naturally Fiji Fragrant Oil Range Manufacturer's of 100% coconut skincare company including virgin coconut oil, RBD oil. Our company registered in 1972 is one of Fijis pioneer kava dealers where our forefathers used to deal kava and other products.we have a retail and wholesale outlet based here in Nabua, Suva.
Body & Bath
527 Ratu Mara Road
Suva
fijian mats, jewellry boxesAkanisi Vuiyasawa Cement, Cpo, Cdso, SugarAntioch-Pacific
679---9224383
4 Jaya Ben Place
679-000-3411211
9 Soqe Court
Mats, CraftsAquarian Exports Limited www.chemstreet.com
679-6700433
Baker Lane
Samabula, Other Suva Suva Antioch-Pacific located in the South Pacific islands of Fiji's capital city Suva was Other incorporated in 1997 to facilitate import / export opportunities and to match demands in the global marketlpace for both buyers and sellers. Nadi no profile. Other
679 3100702 679 9270614 Ashrit Pratap
24-25 Edinburgh Drive
Suva
679 6670023 679 9990032 Hemal Solanki
Lot 3, Kings Road, Yalalevu
Ba
+679 7071044
ashrit@coconut.org.fj
679 3100649
Dominion Wire Cables Ltd
hemal.solanki@dominioncables.com 679 6675244
Fiji Gas Limited
www.fijigas.com.fj
fijigas@connect.com.fj
HB Chemicals Manufactures.
Zinc Oxide,Iron OxideHB Chemicals Manufactures Jay Pee Investment
679-339-1422
Waimari
Rakimari
Jay Pee Investment
679-9268284
Vaileka
Rakiraki
Kaks Marketing (Fiji) Limited
Detergents
679-3384220
12 Autocity Place,
Raiwaqa, Suva,
Liberty Billiards
Billiard tableLiberty Billiards
679-3410151
Vishnu Deo Rd
Nakasi
P.A Lal Coachwork Pacific Batteries Limited
law@palalgroup.com.fj amrit@pacificbatteries.com.fj
Pacific Manufacturers Ltd
leqav@connect.com.fj
Palm Beach Enterprises Limited Heat exchangePalm Beach Enterprises Limited
48IMarket Development Facility
(679) 3304188
3311200/9990067 3362708/3362255/9 990642 679 3410525 679 9994201 Viliame Leqa 679-6724254
Vishnu Deo Road
Nakasi
Zahoor Rd
Nadi
Fijian Product
Fijian Product
Fijian Made
Body & Bath
We supply cleaning chemicals products, hygiene products such as toilet paper, Other paper towels and equipments as well. Manufacturers of copra in Fiji. Other
Handicrafts
Handicrafts
Fijian Product
Dominion Wire & Cables is only manufacturer of Power cables in Fiji having Other 7000 sq. M plant. Our company supply to local market as well as export market such as Australia, PNG, Samoa, and other pacific Island. Fiji's number 1 gas company, was founded in 1956. Its business is the sale of LP Other Gas (butane), domestic cookers, commercial catering equipment, Hydrocarbon based refrigerants, industrial burners and the design, installation and maintenance of hot water systems. Other We are a general trading company selling various products from the Fiji Islands. We also provide consultation services to investors willing to invest in the Fiji Islands in any sectors. We are a small company dealing mainly in mobile telephony products. Mobiles, Fiji Water, Honey We have been in the chemical and hygiene distribution business for the last twenty years. We are the largest distributor of Cleaning and Hygiene chemicals throughout Fiji and the South Pacific. We also supply commercial laundry washing machines, tumble dryers, flatwork ironers etc. Being a billiard table manufacturer if Fiji, I import all raw materials from overseas and make a finished product. My markets are local as well as I have done some exports too. I intend to expand more. Buses Automotive Batteries, Industrial/Deep Cycle Batteries, Marine Batteries
Noni
Body & Bath
679-00-382677
p.kumar@chemstreet.com
Furniture
Body & Bath
Kava (un)pounded
Copra Millers of Fiji Ltd
Furnishings
Zinc Oxide, Iron Oxide
Other
Other
Detergents
Other
Billiard tables
Other Other
Manufacturers in Fiji. Bleach, mosquito coil, candles, safety matches in Fiji. Other Hibiscus brand in Fiji Our company is trading in all sort of hotel and restaurant equipment as we are Other specialised in fitting out complet units, turn key finished to handover to the ownersRecruiting of staff and training is included in the contract of completion.
Fijian Made Fijian Made
Poly Craft Chemicals
Chemicals, Thinners, TurpsPolycraftchemicals
679-3310065
Suite6
Praveenas Stationery (Fiji) Ltd
Arabic gum, chalk, dustersPRAVEENAS STATIONERY (FIJI) LIMITED
679-6670504
Yalalevu
Nina House, Suva Ba
Seamech Ltd Walakewa Arts & Crafts
www.seamechfiji.com HandicraftWalakewa Arts & Crafts
+679 3301882 679-66-62562
25 Vesi Crescent
Lautoka
Amalgamated Sales Co Ltd
Paper Bags, Aluminium FoilAmalgamated Sales Co Ltd
679-3400390
1 Nepal Maharaj Road
CJ Patel & CO Ltd
Toilet Paper, BleachC J Patel & Co Ltd
679-679-3361855
P. O. Box 165 Lami
Manoca Ind. SubDivision Suva
torika@seamechfiji.com
Flexible Packaging (Fiji) Ltd
virendra@flexible.com.fj
+ 679 6663377
Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and Development
director@friendfiji.com
6663181/9993181
Golden Manufacturers Ltd
Manufacture BoxesGolden Manufacturers Ltd
Gosal Distributors Limited Image Label Systems Fiji Ltd
Boila Circle
Nasinu, Suva
3381038/9908581
www.image-label-systems.com adeshni@image-label-systems.com + 679 3387411
M.Hanif Industries Limited t/a M. Hanif Max Marketing and Publishing Limited Narseys Plastics Industries Ltd.
mhanifindustries@connect.com.f 6667968/9992710 j malik@maxmarketingfiji.com 3375042/9990026 vinay@narseysplastics.com.fj
3391688/9921209
Plus Packaging
nil_ppl@yahoo.com.au
3413106
rohinih@redox.com.fj
+ 679 679 3270143
Sigavou Studios Limited
romarova@connect.com.fj
6720717/9350421
Star Printery Limited
sandeep@starprintery.net.fj
3381628/9922108
Suva Stationery Limited
suvastationery@unwired.com.fj 3311799/9993431
Redox Ltd
Card Range, Recycle Paper Range
679-3391522
sanjay.k@cjsgroup.com.fj
redoxonline.com
49IMarket Development Facility
We are manufacturers of Multiple, Top Coat, Two Pack Thinners, Mineral Turps, Body Fillers, Fibres, and suppliers of chemicals. Our factory is situated in the West and our distributionsAre in SUVA AND lautoka. Praveenas stationery is a sole company in Fiji who supplies assorted coloured chalk, white chalk for blackboard writing. We aslo manufacture blackboard cleaners with our major product of arabic gum which in Fiji is used as a glue for sticking paper and doing art & craft. Fishing Equipment Walakewa arts & craft is a Fiji based family company that specialises in the manufacture of fijian handicrafts. The company is located at the western side of Fiji i. E the city of lautoka. We are a company that was established in 1982 purely in distribution of packaging products to the food and manufacturing industry. In 1993 we expanded into manufacturing and converting of HDPE and LDPE Plastic Bags. We have join venture with Kimberly clark Australia.We are second largest company for toilet paper in FijiWe are situated at Lami Suva Fiji.Your parent comany is the biggest wholesale company in Fiji.
3413107
9237650
Krishneel Chand Lot 22 Vishnu Deo Road
Suva
Other
Chemicals
Other
Arabic Gum, Chalk, Dusters
Other Other
Packaging & Stationery
Packaging
Packaging & Stationery
Toilet paper
Packaging & Stationery Packaging & Stationery
The company is located at kalabo industrial estate in VALELEVU at NASINU. The Packaging & company manufacturers packaging boxes. The company was started 15 to 20 Stationery years ago. The company bought one new flexo; folder; diecutter and gluer machine. Nambawan Toilet Tissue Packaging & Stationery Packaging & Stationery Plastic Bags Packaging & Stationery Exercise Books, Notebooks, Diaries, Register Packaging & Stationery Easy Tear & Tie Garbage Bags , Easy Tear & Tie Garbage Bag, Easy All Purpose Packaging & Lunch Wrappers Stationery Manufactuers Of Paper Bag Packaging & Stationery Graphic Designing, Printing [ Business Cards, Brochures, Posters, Newsletters, Packaging & Cards, Wedding cards, Flyers, high volume black and white printing, full colour Stationery printing] photography, branding and promotional merchandise, large format printing, Garments....we do digital, screen, pad printing. Paintings on bark cloth, Paintings on Natural Silk Framed, Paintings Sculptural Art Hand-Crafted Bark cloth,Envelopes and Folders ,Silk Paintings with Bark cloth ,Mounts Hand-Painted Book, Marks Hand-Painted, Greeting Cards Painting on Paper, Painting on Board or Canvas Plain and Printed Envelopes Exercise Books, Glide Account Books
Handicrafts
Fijian Crafted Packaging
Fijian Made
Fijian Made Fijian Made Fijian Made
Packaging & Stationery
Fijian Crafted
Packaging & Stationery Packaging & Stationery
Fijian Made Fijian Made
Annex 3: List of Textile Clothing and Footwear Members
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51 I Market Development Facility
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Company Contact Person Type of Member Intimate Apparel V. Wanarajan Full Member Outfitters ( Fiji) Limited David Rogers Full Member Ranjit Garments Kalpesh Solanki Full Member Danam (Fiji) Ltd Nilesh Jamnadas Full Member Jack's Garments Ltd Kamlesh Naidu Full Member Lyndhurst Ltd John Barton Full Member Mark One Apparel Mark Halabe Full Member Motiram & Co Dharmesh Motiram Full Member Nagsun Apparel Jitendra Solanki Full Member PFD Fiji Ltd Mike Towler Full Member United Apparel Kaushik Kumar Full Member ACME Garments Mahesh Khatri Full Member Argo Garments Ltd Jayant Jaykishan Full Member Asia Pacific Mfg Colin Philp Full Member Outfitters ( Fiji) Limited David Rogers Full Member Bitu Investments Frett Satch Full Member CEB Vijay Kumar Associate Member Charles Parsons Fiji Associate Member Associate Member Chase Apparel Anil Khatri Full Member Classic Apparel Arvind Kumar Full Member Dahia Shoes Raman Dahia Full Member Danam (Fiji) Ltd Nilesh Jamunadass Full Member Deoji Footwear Nilesh Khatri Full Member DHL Global Mahendra Singh Associate Member Dominion Apparels Dhupendra Ramji Full Member Elliott Pacific Elizbath Elliot Full Member Fashion Buttons Mark Neighbour Associate Member Fiji Fashion Week Associate Member Associate Member Freudenberg Associate Member Associate Member Gibson Freight Kamal Reddy Associate Member Golden Manufacturers Mohamad Razak Associate Member Hansraj & Co Hans raj Full Member Image Label System Ltd Adeshni Pratap Associate Member International Embroidery Rakesh Reddy Full Member Intimate Apparel Wana rajan Full Member Intramar PTY Ltd Pravin Singh Associate Member Jack's Garments Ltd Kamlesh Reddy Full Member Kalacraft (Fiji) Ltd Brandan Hennan Full Member Kingsew International Albert Masri Associate Member Lotus Garments Dinesh Lala Full Member Lyndhurst Ltd John Barton Full Member M. Recht Gulab Khan Associate Member Mark One Apparel Mark Helaby Full Member Millenium Apperal Manhar Hari Full Member Motiram & Co Full Member Full Member Nagsun Apparel Bharat Solanki Full Member Narseys Plastics Ltd Vinay Naesey Associate Member On the Beach Casualwear N/A Full Member Pacific Embroidey Glen Smith Full Member Pacific Spirit Mohamad Saiyum Full Member Pacific Tourist Store Dhansuk Lal Full Member Paradise Garments(GB Hari)Kiran Hari Full Member PFD Fiji Ltd Mike Towler Full Member Prestige Clothing Manhar Hari Full Member Ranjit Garments Kalpesh Solanki Full Member Sewing Machines (Fiji) Ltd Glan Vasi Associate Member Southern Cross Textile Kiran Hari Full Member Southtex Fiji Yong Seng Chia Full Member TNT Express Worldwide Frank Boyd Associate Member Tourist Garments Full Member Full Member Tranquil Textiles (Fiji) Pty Ltd Brad Wilson Full Member Treekam Apparel Rohit Treekam Full Member Troubador Garments Dinesh Jamunadass Full Member United Apparel Kaushik Kumar Full Member Unitex Garment Bipin Rathord Full Member Water Wear Fiji Ltd Suresh Prasad Full Member William & Goslings David Aidney Associate Member Westpace Apparels Ltd Prathibha Kumar Full Member YKK Garments Pradeep Kumar Associate Member
52 I Market Development Facility
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Email Contact wana@connect.com.fj adminaco@connect.com.fj kalpesh@ranjit.com nj@danam.com.fj Kamlesh@jacksfiji.com john.barton@lyndhurstfiji.com mark@markone.com.fj dharmesh@motiram.com Jiten@nagsun.com.fj admin@ultrapfd.com kaushik@unitedapparel.com.fj acmeapparels@connect.com.fj argogmt@connect.com.fj colin@asiapacific.com.fj api@outfitters.com accounts@bituinvestments.com.fj ceb@connect.com.fj cparsonsfj@connect.com.fj chase@connect.com.fj akumar@stafford.com.au raman@dahia.com.fj nj@danam.com.fj deoji@kidanet.net.fj mahendra.singh@dhl.com nulook@connect.com.fj elliottpac@connect.com.fj fashionbuttons@connect.com.fj info@fijifashionweek.com.fj freudenberg@connect.com.fj kamal.reddy@gibsonfreight.com.fj marazak@golden.com.fj hansraj@connect.com.fj adeshni@image-label-systems.com 23 rakeshintemb@connect.com.fj intimate@connect.com.fj pravin@intramar.com.au kamlesh@jacksfiji.com kalacraft@connect.com.fj kingsew1@hotmail.com laladinesh@hotmail.com john.barton@lyndhurstfiji.com khan@mrecht.com.fj mark@markone.com.fj manhar_hari@hotmail.com hemal@motiram.com bharat@nagsun.com.fj narseysplastics@connect.com.fj freshlysqueezed@connect.com.fj playpacific@connect.com.fj msaiyum@connect.com.fj pts@connect.com.fj gbhariparadise@connect.com.fj admin@ultrapfd.com manhar_hari@hotmail.com kalpesh@ranjit.com.fj smfl1@connect.com.fj sct@connect.com.fj southtexfiji@connect.com.fj frankb@tnt.com.fj touristgarments@connect.com.fj Brad@calcoup.com.au treekams@connect.com.fj troubador@connect.com.fj kaushik@unitedapparel.com.fj unitex@connect.com.fj wwfaccounts@connect.com.fj eddiey@wgfiji.com.fj westpace@connect.com.fj pardeep.kumar@ykk.com.fj
Annex 4: Relevant Labour and Employment Regulations
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Employment regulations:
Employment Relations Promulgation 2007 Employment Relations (Administration) Regulations 2008 Code of Good Faith for Collective Bargaining 2008 2008 National Policy on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Code of Ethics for Mediators 2008 Employment Relations (Employment Agencies) Regulations 2008 National Code Of Practice For HIV/Aids in the Workplace 2008
Factory regulations:
Factories Act (CAP. 99)
Training regulations:
Fiji National Training Act (CAP. 93)
Health and safety regulations:
Health & Safety at Work Act 1996 Health & Safety at Work (Amendment) Act 2003 Health & Safety at Work (Administration) Regulations 1997 Health & Safety at Work (Training) Regulations 1997 Health & Safety at Work (Reps & Committees) Regulations 1997 Health & Safety at Work (General Workplace Conditions) Regulations 2003 Health & Safety at Work (Diving) Regulations 2006 Health & Safety at Work (Control of Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2006 Draft Code of Practice for Occupational Noise
Industrial associations:
Industrial Associations Act (CAP. 95)
Wages Regulations
Wages regulation (building and civil & electrical engineering trades) order 2012 Wages regulation (hotel and catering trades) order 2012 Wages regulation (garment industry) order 2012 Wages regulation (manufacturing industry) order 2012 Wages regulation (mining and quarrying) order 2012 Wages regulation (printing trades) order 2012 Wages regulation (sawmilling and logging industry) order 2012 Wages regulation (security services) order 2012 Wages regulation (wholesale and retail trades) order 2012 Wages regulation (road transport) order 2012 Workers Compensation Workmen's Compensation Act (CAP. 94)
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