About Us
The northern belt of Ghana is an area which is disproportionately under-developed as compared to other regions within the country. In many regions of the northern belt, the lack of skills and economic opportunities aggravate the situation of many young people with or without post-secondary education. Large portions of the population thus either remain trapped in the declining traditional sector or migrate to the southern urban areas where they experience poor labor market prospects, poor standards of living, and a rise in criminality.
As a direct response to the above and in line with the Northern Development Authority’s (NDA) strategic anchor projects, a private initiative dubbed Northern Apparel Manufacturing Expansion Development (NAMED) wholly owned by Northshore Apparel Limited is birthed.
Mission
Our Mission
To innovate, lead and to provide best-value products and services to global customers as well as enhance the quality of life for our business partners, customers, communities and employees.
Vision
Our Vision
To be the driver of economic and social transformation of the northern belt of Ghana, by means of utilizing the highest quality resources and world-class systems to promote investment in the apparel value chain.
The Northern Apparel Manufacturing Expansion Development (NAMED) is a private initiative wholly owned by Northshore Apparel Limited and supported by NDA. The objective is to establish and develop an apparel value chain in the northern ecological zone. It is establishing its first apparel manufacturing facility in Tamale with a capacity to employ a minimum of Ten thousand (10,000) workers and a potential annual export revenue of over US$100 million.
infrastructure
Infrastructure details
Sewing Buildings: 4 x 7,500sm = 30,000sm
Cutting Buildings: 2 x 7,500sm =15,000sm
Warehouse Buildings: 4 x 10,000sm = 40,000sm
Total land space: 127acres
TOTAL Workforce Capacity: 10,000 minimum
infrastructure
missing infrastructure from picture above
Expat Housing;
Health Post;
Canteen
Security Post
Locker-Rooms
Training Centre
Maintenance Building
Dormitories for factory hands
Internal Roads
Place of Worship
Sport Court and Other recreational areas
Solar and other tech infrastructures
Care/Early childhood education center
Mechanized Wells to feed the plant
Waste Management Plant
PHASE 1 – TAMALE FACILITY
Cost – $ 22.6 million
Plant Operational 12/2022
PHASE 2 – COTTON OUT-GROWER
- West Africa is one of the leading cotton exporters in the world, led by Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Togo.
- A cotton out-grower scheme in the manner of the
GREL – ROPP scheme shall be established. - Cost is to be determined.
The Northern Apparel Manufacturing Expansion Development (NAMED)
is a private initiative wholly owned by Northshore Apparel Limited
and facilitated by NDA.
The objective is to establish and develop an apparel value chain in the
northern ecological zone.
PHASE 3 – COTTON GINNERY
Cost To Be Determined
PHASE 3 – BOLGA COTTON MILL
Cost To Be Determined
The Tamale facility shall:
- have a minimum factory floor area of 120,000 m2
- employees >10,000 direct local employees, 80% women.
- pay employees well-above minimum wage with health benefits, free meals at work, and housing.
- for those from other communities and progressive training, in-house clinic, care/early childhood.
- education center for nursing mothers or women employees with babies.
- be partly powered by solar energy.
- focus on high-volume, long-shelf-life items.
- take full advantage of the government 1D1F policy, as a licensed Free Zone Enterprise, it will benefitt from duty-free imports of raw materials and equipment
Phase One Expected Results:
- Create a minimum of 10,000 direct career apparel jobs
- Guarantee stable income with Overtime & Bonus Potential
- Contribute to the tax net as well as the social security fund
- Decrease the incidence of young people migrating to the south to live, sleep and work on
the street. - Safety net and resettlement scheme for migrant women and girls (Kayaye)
- Increase foreign exchange and transform the structure of the Ghanaian economy as more
products are made and exported. - Opportunity to re-engineer the apparel and cotton industry and transform the structure of
the economy in the northern belt