Women-led, family-founded
Founded as a family business in 1998 and led by women today. We look for long-term partnerships, not one-off orders.
A shirt specialist since 1998
Women-led, family-founded and 90% women on the floor, in Tirana. One product category, men's shirts, made for other people's brands at volume and to spec.
Our Story
EDES started in 1998 as a family business in Tirana, making men's shirts. Today it is a women-led company that still makes one thing, for other people's brands.
From those beginnings we have grown into a cut-make-trim (CMT) manufacturer known for tight project management and attention to detail. Clients supply the fabric, usually as pre-cut panels; we run make, trim, finishing, inspection and packing in-house. When a client needs it, we source fabric or arrange cutting with partner cutting rooms.
Private label is the core of our business. Every order is built to the client's tech pack, with their labels, trims and packaging. More than 1,000 brands have trusted us with their production, a portfolio we think of as our most valuable patchwork project. We are also open to public tenders and institutional contracts for uniform shirts, from military and police to emergency and transport services.
Seventy people work in a factory of about 1,000 m², on Juki and Brother sewing lines, under an ISO 9001 quality management system. Between them they bring more than 30 years of collective experience in shirt construction and quality control.
Founded
1998Tirana, Albania
Expertise
30+ yearsISO 9001 quality system
Monthly capacity
8k–20kunits a month
Team
70people, 90% women
90%
of the people on our floor are women
Led by Women. Made by Women.
Garment work has long been done by women and rarely led by them. At EDES both are true: women run the company, and nine in ten of our 70 people are women, from the sewing lines to final inspection.
When you order from us, you support skilled women's work and a women-led business in Albania, and get shirts made by people who have spent years mastering them.
Factory Specification
- Production model
- CMT on client-supplied fabric or pre-cut panels. Fabric sourcing and cutting through partners on request
- In-house operations
- Kit intake and check, sewing and assembly, inline QC, finishing, pressing, final inspection, packing
- Sectors
- Private label for fashion and retail brands. Uniform and service shirts for public tenders and institutions: military, police, fire and emergency services, customs, healthcare, transport, security, corporate
- Product
- Men's shirts: formal and dress, casual, oxford, poplin, twill, flannel, linen, denim and overshirts
- Construction
- To your tech pack: collar and cuff types, fused or soft interlinings, yoke and placket styles, seam and stitch specs, button and trim specs
- Size range
- Full letter and collar-size ranges, made to your graded patterns and measurement chart
- Machinery
- Juki, Brother and Jack industrial machines: lockstitch, buttonholing, fusing press
- Quality system
- ISO 9001 certified. Kit checks, inline checks and final inspection on every order
- Monthly capacity
- 8,000–20,000 units
- Minimum order
- On request, per style and colour
- Lead time
- Confirmed per order with your quote
- Markets
- Main market Italy. Open to clients worldwide
How We Work
Close to our main market
Italy is our main market, a short distance from Tirana. Orders are collected from the factory or delivered to Durrës port, where your forwarder takes over.
An experienced team
70 people, 90% of them women, from machinists to inspectors, with more than 30 years of collective experience in shirt construction.
Always improving
ISO 9001 means documented processes we review and improve, alongside the hand skills that make a collar sit right.
What Drives Us
There is nothing in this world that cannot be improved.
It is how we approach every order. The threads that hold our partnerships together are understanding what each client needs, and getting the details right.
Work With Us
Planning a collection or moving production? Send your tech pack, fabric status, target quantities and delivery window. We'll confirm MOQ and lead time with your quote.