Hard work and innovation clothe business success
THE Fijian coup of 2006 and subsequent currency valuation forced small businesses to take drastic measures. Some folded and went out of business. For the Chute family of Labasa – originally from Udu in Fiji’s far north – it was time to make the difficult decision to downsize, reorganise, pick up the pieces and rebuild.
From 14 shops in 2006, Value City sank to an all-time low with only four shops three years later. Now the regional second-hand clothing chain stands on the cusp of opening a shop in Timor Leste, the Pacific’s newest democracy. At the head of Value City is Vera Chute, eldest of eight siblings.
The first shop started in May 1990 in the back streets of Labasa. Within the year (my parents) had opened shops in Nausori, Kasabia (Yatu Lau) Arcade and Centrepoint – so within a year they had opened four shops,” Chute remembers. “The next year we moved to the West. So we grew up until 2006 we had grown up to 12 branches around Fiji. In between that time we had closed smaller operations like Levuka and Taveuni because of the high transportation costs.”
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