Periodic Reporting for period 1 - sqetch (Sqetch – easily connecting fashion brands with apparel manufacturers)
Reporting period: 2016-03-01 to 2016-08-31
Sqetch is an online platform designed to help fashion brands find Clothing Manufacturers and Suppliers. The platform is disrupting a traditional industry, encouraging innovation and maintaining competitiveness, to support a sector which employs 1,6M people, thus playing a crucial role in the economy in many regions of Europe. The objective of Sqetch – easily connecting fashion brands with apparel manufacturers, (Grant Agreement number: 720219) was to deploy the platform and validate the technological, practical and the economic viability of the concept. As such its dimension was two-fold: (i) develop a pilot platform –to assess the added value, costs, and impact of more extensive feedback during the development stage and early review of how customers are impacted by the proposed solution and (ii) prove the technical and commercial viability by conducting an analysis to determine the probability of the project to sustain itself, grow, meet the objectives and offer the expected returns.