Made in Khanbogd: Work wear for miners made in the local soum

Local small business Ulziit Munkh Ovoo LLC uses micro-loan to prosper

Since her time as teacher and dean at the local school, Ulziit Munkh Ovoo LLC Director Ms.Sh.Tuya has always had ambitions to sew traditional, fashionable and functional clothing.

Local small business Ulziit Munkh Ovoo LLC uses micro-loan to prosper

Since her time as teacher and dean at the local school, Ulziit Munkh Ovoo LLC Director Ms.Sh.Tuya has always had ambitions to sew traditional, fashionable and functional clothing. She quit her job at the school to begin Ulziit Munkh Ovoo in 2010 and have been a supplier partner to Oyu Tolgoi since this time.

Ulziit Munkh Ovoo now makes and supplies the Oyu Tolgoi mine site with office and car seat covers, and a variety of work clothing.

Benefitting from Oyu Tolgoi business and financial support

On the back of their initial orders from Oyu Tolgoi, Ulziit Munkh Ovoo have been able to expand their initial workshop. In 2011, they took advantage of Oyu Tolgoi’s supplier loan programme and borrowed MNT30 million to build a special workshop and to purchase equipment.

Ulziit Munkh Ovoo bought a 84m²house with separate rooms in which they divide the different activities of tailoring, cutting and sewing. They were also able to use the loan to invest in additional sewing machines for their business. Their business efficiency has improved with thanks to Sh.Tuya attending accounting, customer service, business director planning courses organised by Oyu Tolgoi. Procurement also facilitated sewing skill training for their employees. Ulziit Munkh Ovoo now operate a spacious workshop with dedicated equipment and have grown from three employees to today employing 13 members of the local community.

Every employee is a quality controller

Ulziit Munkh Ovoo’s focus is on supplying high quality products on time. “Everyone in our company is quality controller which means we attach quite a high quality requirement in our production process. Using this vision, we would like to introduce our products to the local community and provide them with demand driven products and services,” said Ms.Sh.Tuya.

Ulziit Munkh Ovoo is recognised as Oyu Tolgoi’s supplier of the month

Each month Oyu Tolgoi recognises our best supplier partners who demonstrate excellence in the products and services that they deliver. Ulziit Munkh Ovoo was recognised as the best contractor from the South Gobi province in May 2012.