JVS Export, a Madurai-based textile manufacturer, said it has bagged the international supplier of the year 2004 award from global retail chain major Wal-Mart.
JVS Export received the award for successfully implementing processes that resulted in the better management of inventories and tracking of sales by item, store, distribution centres and goods in transit. The company exports kitchen textile products such as dish cloths and wash cloths to Wal-Mart stores in Brazil,
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The sourcing partnership with Wal-Mart has resulted in the creation of more than 6,000 new jobs in Karur and Madurai in cotton ginning, spinning, weaving, processing, and packaging and logistics movement over the past five years.
JVS Export's association with Wal-Mart commenced in 1998 when it began supplying small packs of kitchen textiles as test programmes. Its business grew to $12.5 million in 2004 with a 15-20 percent growth for the last four years. 
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