New Clothesource Business Profiles make for easier apparel sourcing

Oct. 8, 2008 - PRLog -- Oxford, UK. .  
Clothesource, the UK’s leading consultant in apparel sourcing, has recently been inundated with requests from apparel buyers eager to find  alternative sources to China.

Clothesource’s CEO Mike Flanagan said “China has never been the cheap – in four out of five product categories it has for some time been outside the world’s top ten cheapest suppliers. But now that prices are starting to rise, we are finding people need good quality information to help them to find alternative or supplementary sources.”

The new range of Clothesource Business Profiles provide the essential information about manufacturing capabilities around the world in each major apparel category. “And with Western markets softening”, added Flanagan, “more and more textile businesses in developing markets are looking for help in identifying their competitors’ strength”

For the thirty-three major garment categories, Clothesource shows where the world’s major apparel importing countries – Japan, the US and EU – buy their clothing from, how supplier countries’ share has evolved,  how supplier countries’ price competitiveness varies between countries, and how countries’ price competitiveness has changed since quotas were abolished at the end of 2004.

Information in each category is provided graphically, as well as in hard data. There are seven separate profiles, covering:

Casual Outerwear (Men's casual jackets, Track suits etc and Women’s Casual Jackets)
Hosiery (Socks and Tights/pantyhose)
Intimate/Swim (Men's Swim, Women's Swim, Bras/Corsetry, Knitted Briefs, Woven Briefs, Panties, Slips + petticoats, Women's Nightwear, and Men’s Nightwear
Knitwear (Sweaters, Women’s Knit Blouses, Men's Knitted Shirts, T Shirts, Women's Knit Trousers)
Tailoring (Men's Coats, Men's Formal Jackets, Men's Suits, Women's Coats, Women's Formal Jackets, Women's Suits)
Tops and Dresses (Men's Woven Shirts, Women's Dresses, and Woven Blouses)
Trousers and Skirts (Men's Jeans, Women's Jeans, Men's Woven Trousers, Women's Skirts, Women's Trousers)

Clothesource Business Profiles are available at GBP450 each from www.clothesource.com

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Clothesource Limited, based in Charlbury, Oxford, UK and Bucharest, Romania, provides the world’s leading apparel retailers, brands and exporters with quality control and market intelligence on apparel sourcing and exporting