RESHORING CASE

Rapanui

Company details
Code: 
Rapanui
Company name: 
Rapanui Clothing
Group name: 
Rapanui
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Number of employees: 
10
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
Sub-sectors: 
C14.1 - Manufacture of wearing apparel, except fur apparel
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
28/01/2014
Starting implementation date: 
January, 2014
End of Implementation : 
December, 2017
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location of affected unit(s): 
Isle of Wight
Location code: 
UKJ34
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Partial
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
12
Reasons for reshoring: 
Change in total costs of sourcing
Delivery time
Need for greater organizational flexibility
Poor quality of offshored production
Proximity to customers
Case narrative: 

Rapanui is a small British company that manufactures clothing. The company is based in the Isle of Wight. The number of employees is going to increase from 10 employees to 22 due to the backshoring from India during a three year process.

Main reasons for the backshoring are need for flexibility and shorter time-to-customer, as well as to improve quality controls.

Sources: 

isleofwrightradio, 28/01/2014

themanufacturer, 30/01/2014

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
India