Romania in the global garment marketĪt 59, Maria Udrea is now Chief of the Confectionery section at Faberrom. Today, less than 200 people work in the textile department, sewing pieces of garments for prominent luxury brands from the West. Following the fall of communism, APACA was privatized like most state-owned companies, and reborn as Faberrom in 1991. 1380 people in her section alone (clothing and knitwear).
Twenty thousand workers used to work here. We are at Faberrom, one of the biggest garment business in Romania located in a converted industrial plant in Bucharest, which used to be known as APACA. One unit worked for the Soviet Union, one for Italy and another one for the UK,” she recalls.
Maria Udrea is sewing a piece of clothing at a machine.
