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JUNGE HAS SURVIVED DEEP ECONOMIC CRISES AND BIG CHANGES IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY , SO IT WILL ALSO SURVIVE
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MODEBRANCHEN . · ISSUE NO 02 · 2021 · 7 8 |
udvikles . Men i Danmark går det ikke længere fremad . Kartoffelkuren og økonomisk krise rammer landet i 1986 , og da Junge ApS på dette tidspunkt udelukkende har afsætning inden for landets grænser , påvirker krisen hårdt , og salget halveres . - I 1988 er min far 68 år , og han beslutter sig simpelthen for at lukke
JUNGE virksomheden . Han mener ikke , jeg er erfaren nok til at drive hans livsværk videre i den vanskelige markedssituation , og jeg får job hos Møller & Co . Inden , jeg når at tiltræde , møder jeg imidlertid min tidligere omtalte bekendte fra Hongkong i Amsterdam . Han synes , det er ” tosset ”, hvis der ikke længere skal være damefrakker , der hedder Junge . Jeg husker tydeligt , at han siger til mig : ” You only get a few chances in life . You got to grab them !” Jeg er ung og fuld af gå-på-mod , så han inspirerer mig til at føre drømmen om mit eget tekstileventyr ud i livet . Derfor etablerer jeg i 1989 virksomheden Christian Junge Import / Eksport A / S . Jeg hjælpes i gang af min samarbejdspartner i Hongkong og en kassekredit på 200.000 kroner i Danske Bank . Min far ryster på hovedet af mig , og han låner mig faktisk aldrig en krone . Jeg får dog lov at videreføre brandet Junge i mit eget selskab , og jeg går i gang med at forynge looket designmæssigt . Jeg sætter også langt mere fokus på salg og eksport , som firmanavnet også udtrykker , forklarer Christian Junge . Måske var det udtryk for ungdommeligt mod , måske udtryk for en stædig ” jeg skal vise min far ”-attitude, men i al fald lykkes det Christian Junge at sælge varer , og det går godt . Fire år senere - i 1994 - sælger Bent Junge virksomheden Junge ApS til sønnen , og firmanavnet ændres til Junge A / S . I de seneste mange år har virksomheden ligget på Kertemindevej i Randers .
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- Op gennem 1990 ’ erne får jeg trimmet mine ideer om kvalitetskontrol , og jeg sætter fart på eksporten , men jeg vælger at fastholde mit fokus på nichen med dameovertøj . Det er ellers en periode , hvor mange producenter i modebranchen udvikler sig fra specialister til leverandører af total-koncepter , men jeg koncentrerer mig om det , vi er gode til . Den strategi fastholder jeg op i det nye årtusinde , og det er også planen for fremtiden , slutter Christian Junge , der tilføjer , at når virksomheden har overlevet dybe økonomiske kriser og store omstruktureringer i tekstilbranchen , så skal Junge også nok komme igennem tiden med corona .
SUMMARY Within the last few years , several well-known Danish outerwear specialists has had to close . Being in business for 75 years as a Danish textile company is certainly not a given . Junge A / S , based in Randers , is looking forward to celebrating its anniversary , and it will do so in several ways throughout the year . A 75th anniversary book about the history of the company will be released , and three anniversary items will be introduced at 20 % off . And there will also be a range of activities for both BtB and BtC customers . Junge A / S is a family business and was founded by the current owner - Christian Junge ’ s - father . But its history has more twists and turns than you would typically see with a
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company being passed down from father to son . Christian Junge ’ s father , Bent Junge , founded Junge ApS in 1946 . - It was just after World War II that my father opened his women ’ s confection factory in Østergade in Aarhus . The available materials at the time were primarily uniform fabrics , and they had to design and sew the products they could from the materials they had . They managed to do it , but for my father and the rest of the Danish textile industry , it was a huge relief when the liberation came and goods started moving freely across borders again , begins Christian Junge . The 1950s were the decade in which industrial jobs grew to outnumber agricultural jobs for the first time . For Junge A / S , the industrialization meant that its factory grew and had to be relocated from Østergade to a five-storey building with front and back rooms in Mejlgade in Aarhus . In the back rooms were hundreds of women responsible for sewing the clothes every day , while clerks handled financials and sales and so on in the front of the house . Large lorries had to make their way into the narrow courtyard to deliver fabrics and pick up finished products for delivery to the Danish fashion stores . As early as 1967 , Junge ApS established business relationships with factories in the East , and production was moved out of Denmark . - My father was among the Danish textile pioneers when it comes to moving production out of Denmark . He realised early on that it would be too expensive to keep production in Denmark because of the rising wages of the 1960s . My father ’ s English wasn ’ t perfect , but he still managed to find suitable manufacturers and establish close relationships with sup- |