Clothesource: help for the global sourcing community

Clothesource offers to the world's professional apparel buyers and sellers data, analysis, up to the minute news and one-to-one advice on making the most of the constantly changing apparel trade

Clothesource combines hands-on clothing industry and retail experience with The Clothesource Knowledge Base - the most comprehensive source of information anywhere about sourcing for the apparel industry.

Our unique, ready to buy, publications

Offer understandable and useable in-depth analysis of worldwide apparel sources, prices and trading rules

The Source, our monthly sourcing digest,

Keeps apparel buyers and sellers up to date on current events.

Go here for The Source's latest apparel trading headlines.

Or go here for our latest comments on the big issues.

Our consultancy and training services

Help businesses to help find the right strategic solutions for today's problems. Whether they're retailers, brands, garment manufacturers, fabric or fibre manufacturers

Our free downloads section (The Library)

Has full profiles and thumbnail sketches of:

• Apparel sourcing fundamentals
• The major supplying countries and product categories
• Retail markets
• Sourcing shows and meetings

Consultancy

Clothesource works with companies at all levels in the apparel business – retailers, garment manufacturers and fabric and fibre manufacturers - to help find the right strategic solutions for their business. Our consultancy projects typically cover

• Helping apparel buyers review or create sourcing strategies,
• Finding new factories for buyers
• Helping suppliers improve their sales.
• Helping industry suppliersevaluate their business basics

Go here for more information about our consultancy on garment sourcing and garment manufacturing

Training

Clothesource offers tailored in-house training programmes for buyers and merchandisers covering trends in global sourcing, strategic decision making, and finding and managing suppliers. Clothesource also trains buyers and merchandisers in partnership with the University of Westminster

Go here for more information on how we train buyers to source clothes better

The unique off-the-shelf publications we sell provide most of the information you need.

Clothesource Business Profiles provide essential information about manufacturing capabilities for the fifty major supplying countries in each major apparel category.

The Clothesource Handbook is the definitive account of the state of the world's apparel trade.

The Clothesource Guide to Trade Regulations summarises rules about apparel trading in English we can all understand.

The Source is our montly newsletter dedicated to stories that keep you up to date with changes in the global apparel industry, including an archive of articles going back to 2003

Sourcing Intelligence is our unique database, providing you with all the information you need on the world’s manufacturing countries.

Go here for a full list of what we sell to make sourcing easier

Free from The Library

We're building up The Library to become the best repository of information on the world of sourcing anywhere. Most of it is free.

Separate sections of resources about:

• Apparel sourcing fundamentals
• Sourcing from specific countries
• Sourcing for specific categories
• Selling to Western retailers