SITE AND SITUATION

OUR ITEM

• Our item is the Jockey Women's t-shirt

BASIC INFO

• It is made in Columbia.
• The t-shirts have always been made there.
• The columbian company Crystal takes care of everything that's put into the shirt.

TRANSPORTATION

• Starts in Columbia
• Ships all over the world
• Trucks transport to markets

Bulk reducing
Cotton is spun in Columbia by the factory
Shipping containers can hold 82,880 shirts in one 8 by 40 ft container

How does capital affect this industry?
-The access to machinery eliminates a large amount of labor pay and reduced the numbers of on-site injuries

SITUATION INFLUENCES

• Location relative to inouts
• Locations relative to outputs
• The break of bulk point

PROXIMITY TO INPUTS AND MARKETS

• Cotton yarn made in Indonesia
• In Bangladesh, knitting, cutting, and sewing resume.

Land
Factories in Colombia:
Land and labor is cheap near there for cotton processing

LABOR

• In Colombia workers earn $13 per day with no over time
• 90% of US cotton comes from genetically modified seeds

COTTON FARMERS

• Farmers get paid through crop insurance, payments when prices fail, and direct payments
• They use giant robots to harvest cotton ($600,000 per robot)