According to the Kohan Textile Journal¹, the UAE's textile industry is the country's second-largest employer after oil and gas, with around 170 garment manufacturers operating across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. But behind every independent tailor and fashion label sits a production facility, and demand for workshop capacity is growing. Geebee Garments operates two UAE facilities with a 600+ workforce producing over 2 million garments per year². Ladies tailoring and embroidery workshops sit at the heart of this ecosystem, serving the designers, boutiques, and brands that feed the UAE's fashion economy.
The market is ready for more production capacity.
Under Operation 300bn³, the UAE government is driving industrial GDP from AED 133 billion to AED 300 billion by 2031, with textiles explicitly among the priority sectors. Dubai and Ajman are emerging as production hubs where garment factories are setting new standards for sustainability, waste reduction, and energy efficiency². Whether you're setting up a multi-head embroidery unit, a cut-make-trim facility for designers, or a full-service tailoring and embellishment workshop, Dubai is backing the build.
Who Is This For?
This is not a single-tailor operation; it's the production floor behind it. A workshop is where multiple machines, multiple hands, and multiple orders converge. Whether you're running a 10-station embroidery unit or a full-scale ladies tailoring facility, Meydan Free Zone lets you set up with full foreign ownership and a license in as little as 60 minutes, without stepping foot in the UAE.
1410.98 - Ladies Wears Tailoring & Embroidery Workshop
Under this activity, you operate a production facility for ladies tailoring and embroidery, a workshop equipped to handle multiple orders, multiple operators, and volume output. This covers cut-make-trim operations, machine and hand embroidery production, bulk alterations, and contract manufacturing for designers, boutiques, and retailers.
Some services sit outside this activity. It excludes the manufacture of wearing apparel of fur skins (except headgear), footwear, wearing apparel of rubber or plastics not assembled by stitching but merely sealed together, leather sports gloves and sports headgear, safety headgear (except sports headgear), fire-resistant and protective safety clothing, and the repair of wearing apparel.
In short: you run the production floor, not the fitting room. If you are one tailor serving one client at a time, that's a different business. This activity is for the workshop behind the craft.
Third-Party Approval:
No third-party approval is required for this business activity.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:
This business activity is exempt from AML compliance requirements.
Reference
¹ Kohan Textile Journal — UAE Textile Market Overview — https://kohantextilejournal.com/textile-industry-in-uae/
² Valtin Apparel — 10 Best UAE Clothing Manufacturers — https://valtinapparel.com/10-best-uae-clothing-manufacturers/
³ UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology — Operation 300bn — https://moiat.gov.ae/en/about-us/about-the-strategy
⁴ Creative Vision Textiles — https://www.creativevisiontextiles.com/
