Visual Merchandising, Inc. Expands its Mexico Manufacturing Footprint with the Tecma Group of Companies

Colorado company sells custom-designed mannequins worldwide.

2014-03-13

EL PASO, TX, March 13, 2014 (Press-News.org) Broomfield, Colorado-based Visual Merchandising, Inc. (VMI) has recently expanded the size of its Mexico manufacturing operations in Ciudad Juarez.

The company will shortly increase the space that it has dedicated to the production of retail display mannequins from 60,552 to 84,312 square feet.

VMI, which currently employs a total of four hundred and eighty workers, will contract an additional fifty employees when its expanded facility is ready for occupation. The company operates its Mexico manufacturing plant under the auspices of The Tecma Group of Companies' Mexico Shelter Manufacturing Partnership (MSMP).

According to Rich Moran, the company's executive vice president of operations, "The present expansion is due to a growth in demand for VMI product. An increase in floor space at our Mexican manufacturing facility at this time will enable us to ramp up production in response, as well as to improve efficiencies by re-laying our factory work flow."

In addition to the present increase in its Mexico manufacturing footprint, Visual Merchandising, Inc., has also extended the period during which it will partner in Mexico with the Tecma Group of Companies by an additional five years.

About Visual Merchandising Incorporated

VMI is continually innovating and holds patents on unique rotational molding processes, magnetic fittings, and easy to use, non-marring flanges. The company has honed its creative processes to make its customer design experience as user-friendly its our mannequins. A combination of these elements has made Visual Merchandising, Inc. the largest source of truly custom mannequins.

About the Tecma Group of Companies

The Tecma Group of Companies, Inc., headquartered in El Paso, Texas provides services that have enabled firms from a wide range of industries to establish and maintain manufacturing in Mexico operations for almost three decades. Under its Mexico Shelter Manufacturing Partnership (MSMP) companies control and focus on their core, value-added functions, while Tecma tends to their human resource, payroll, accounting, logistics, and other needs that, although important, are not part of the manufacturing process. Receive Tecma informational content at the company's RSS Feed.

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