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17 Feb 12

2011 ends with China’s share rising and prices getting cheaper

The February Source shows China's share of rich-country apparel exports continued rising in December 2011, as prices of Chinese garments grew at less../read more
30 Jan 12

Slumpflation hits global garment trade, says January Source

The January SOURCE shows growth in worldwide demand for clothing slowed very abruptly indeed at the end of 2011- and did so just about everywhere. But the helter-skelter fluctuations in the cost of making clothes, and the way those fluctuations differ between countries, made the slowdown hit the industry in four different, but potentially equally devastating, ways.../read more
14 Dec 11

"China's surprisingly competitive": says new Clothesource report

China's still surprisingly competitive, says a new Clothesource survey. And it's likely to remain so for years../read more
 

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05 Apr 12

For the Burmaniacs among you: a reality check.

We're suddenly seeing an outbreak of Burmania. As one speaker at an industry conference put it in...

28 Mar 12

AGOA: No extension in prospect to third-country fabric provision

America's third party fabric provision to AGOA beneficiaries expires on September 30 this year....

22 Feb 12

Cambodian shootings: symptom of the country’s real problem for buyers?

The shooting of three Cambodian footwear workers during a wage demonstration at Taiwanese-owned...

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

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

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Latest News

24 Apr 12

Europe and US start easing Burma sanctions – provisionally and partially

The EU and US gave no indication of any timing for the withdrawal of penal EU import duties or of the US total ban on Burmese products when announcing the first tentative loosening of sanctions against Burma in mid April. And even those first steps were attacked by Burmese opposition groups.../read more
17 Apr 12

Minimum wages now close to universal in Southeast Asia

While activists still talk about "races to the bottom", governments throughout South East Asia have been actively encouraging wages to grow over the past year.../read more

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