Jan Nehera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Nehera

Czech entrepreneur

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1899

Place of Birth: Kostelec na Hané, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1958

Profession: businessperson

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jan Nehera (December 31, 1899 – April 4, 1958) was a Czechoslovak businessman.
With his pioneering approach to retail trade and advanced manufacturing methods he was able to make his way on three continents where, from 1931 to 1939, he was progressively developing a network of more than 130 retail shops of large capacity and several tens of business representations and plants.
He was the first to vertically integrate the sale of ready-made clothing from the manufacturing process to retail, and thus he showed the way to current luxury houses such as Chanel and Hermes.
He implemented many innovative approaches into practice which were also used by Ford or Bata.
His products were at the top of the textile tradition in the Czechoslovak Republic which had begun in 1858 with the first plant for ready-made clothing in Europe built right in Nehera's hometown of Prostejov.
This tradition is still alive in many garment factories in Prostejov or Trencín.