By 2009, 9X began to run into financial trouble, around 80-100 employees were laid off in one month.
It has 59 branches in Bangladesh and employ around 3000 employees.
It expanded rapidly, and by 1850 had around 450 employees.
The university opened in fall 2009, anticipating around 50 students and 20 employees as faculty, administration, and staff.
Around 300 employees, mostly women, worked shifts around the clock.
The company also planned to hire around 90 additional employees as part of the process.
The consortium itself occupied around 1,350 employees in 2009.
It has 80 branches in Bangladesh and employ around 1,600 employees.
The average size was still fairly small-only around 30 employees per factory.
Currently the staff runs around 25 employees, most of whom have been with the company for the majority of its existence.