Heritage
From 1980 to today
Four decades of Italian-style industrial tailoring in Iran — the founder, the lines, the honors and the people of this factory.
History
1980
Founded in Tehran
Abdolreza Niknejad — trained in clothing design and design management at Manchester Polytechnic, with apprenticeships at Marks & Spencer, Andrea Andretta (Italy), Corsini and Pierre Cardin (France) and a diploma from the Marangoni institute (Italy) — founds Jamineh on a 600 m² premises in north Tehran with 36 skilled workers and the first chain-production trouser line.
1984
Jacket line, Italian standard
After three years and a move to a 3,000 m² property in Aliabad, the jacket production line starts under Italian system and standard.
1988
Technology serving production
A Novell computer network is installed — among the first in Iran’s apparel industry; a mark of the founder’s industrial thinking.
2004
Abbas Abad factory project
Aiming at exports to Europe with Ministry of Industries support, construction of the new factory begins: cutting from France, pressing and finishing from Italy, sewing from Germany and Japan. When sanctions begin, the project accelerates.
2009
The 6,500 m² factory opens
Four suit/trouser lines and two shirt lines; design capacity of 1,000 suits, 1,000 single trousers and 2,000 shirts per month, and jobs for more than 900 people.
Today
Capacity for new partners
Suit and shirt line capacity is open to brands and corporate buyers; each partner runs on a scheduled production program.
Founder — Abdolreza Niknejad
Abdolreza Niknejad, born 1952 in Mashhad, was the son of a veteran merchant and a mechanical engineer from the University of Tehran. Before he learned the ins and outs of tailoring, he had learned to think like an engineer — the mindset that would turn Jamineh from a bespoke workshop into a factory. He emigrated to England at 14, and tailoring entered his life out of necessity: “the English cut didn’t fit my build; I had to alter my own clothes, and then sew a garment from scratch.”
In England — first studying computer science, then clothing design and design management at Manchester Polytechnic — he learned the industry from both angles: the craft of personal tailoring and the engineering of production. Apprenticeships at Marks & Spencer and Andrea Andretta (Italy), Corsini and Pierre Cardin (France), and a diploma from the Marangoni institute (Italy) joined those two worlds in him. After returning to Iran: head of apparel design at Jamco Factory, then founding Jamineh in 1980.
Niknejad was more manufacturer than tailor. His exceptional ability for scale manufacturing combined with the precision of personal tailoring: chain production lines, conveyor systems, automated cutting and computer-aided pattern-making — in the service of full-canvas construction and a range of 2,000 body types. The result is a factory that repeats the precision of a garment made for one person, across thousands of garments a month.
Awards & statues
Customers
Serving customers has always been regarded as a valuable opportunity at every level. That approach — real customer-orientation, not slogans — is an asset that transfers with the factory to new partners.