Quality, durability and know-how are at the heart of Eminence's identity. For more than seventy years, the French brand has been manufacturing men's underwear with unparalleled expertise, whose precise gestures are passed on from one generation to the next. At the head office, located in the Gard, fabric control, logistics and development are combined. This is also where the key stages of knitting and cutting take place. For its part, clothing is provided in Sauve, where around 100 employees are located, and on the other hand outsourced to partner subcontractors.
Choices explained by the manager of Éminence's quality department:
“We have kept knitting in the Gard to preserve our know-how. We know the manufacturing process: the quantity of wire and the time required for the machine or the operator, the optimal placement of the cut… All this allows us to transpose our know-how to our partner factories, but also to our partners. subcontractors. Eminence, c
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is seventy years of history and considerable database.
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For example, the brand has identified an important point of tension, under the boxer brief, and developed a yoke rather than a simple seam, which would have been less comfortable and more fragile. It is this reinforced lining, called "worries", and more generally this attention to details, finishes and cuts of the products, which make the specificity of the brand and contribute to its quality and durability.
Reasoned choices
Although Eminence carries out many of its manufacturing steps in France, the brand therefore also calls on external service providers, with whom a bond of trust has been established for more than twenty years.
Spain for dyeing, or partners located in particular on the Mediterranean rim for clothing.
The gestures born in the Gard thus cross borders so that the brand's culture and know-how endure through transversal stages of knitting, cutting, stitching or even embroidery.
Enough to ensure the sustainability of this expertise but also the quality, and in this way continue to transmit the mastery of all the industrial processes necessary for the design of the brand's products.
Underwear designed to last a long time
Internally, acute quality controls are carried out thanks to a laboratory where around ten people ensure that each production scrupulously respects the specifications.
A computerized control procedure that allows the quality manager and his team not to miss any step, to transmit information quickly and to keep a history.
Looking ahead, Eminence plans to continue its momentum by developing more sustainability, although these issues have always been central to the brand:
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Eminence is
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one of the first companies to have been labeled Oeko-Tex
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It was essential for underwear.
Our knits and our materials are qualitative, and designed to last a long time.
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