Sourcing to 2012 and 2015
Two key new reports from Clothesource:
The key influences on garment sourcing in the Post-Post Quota World
Between 2007 and 2009, garment sourcing was shaken by four separate, but linked, influences:
- Rapid growth in the worldwide market for clothing till early 2008, followed by an abrupt reversal into decline.
- Garment makers were weakened by difficulties in dealing with the constant changes in raw material, shipping and energy inflation, exchange rates and interest levels both during the boom and during the recession.
- The normal cycle of changing consumer, commercial and political pressures
- The final abolition in early 2009 of all restraints on Chinese and Vietnamese exports to the EU and US.
From mid-2008 and through 2009, most buyers' and sellers' attention was focused on questions about recession and recovery, and businesses' ability to deal with them.
But that diverts attention from one fundamental fact. Though many described the sourcing environment after 2005 as "the post quota world", continuing restrictions on China and Vietnam meant that only in early 2009 did the Post-Post Quota world emerge.
The World of Apparel Sourcing 2010-2012 looks at the trends that influenced apparel sourcing between 2007 and 2009 and reviews which of them are likely to change between 2010 and 2012. It then makes detailed forecasts for the net effect on apparel exports from over 60 countries in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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A NEW Clothesource report looks at the forthcoming revolution in the garment trade In the past 20 years, the number of garments being imported into rich countries has increased sixfold - almost entirely the result of production being relocated (and often re-relocated) for greater efficiency. But between 2010 and 2015, the market may be just as revolutionised as it was between 2005 and 2010 by some crucial changes in the trading environment. Above all, the imminent decline in the number of Chinese of working age - but also by further changes in Customs rules, in buyers' requirements, and in increasingly scarce and costly cotton and power supplies.
"The Garment Trade's Next Revolution: what's likely to change by 2015" reviews the changes likely to start transforming the industry again from about 2012.
It makes specific, country by country, predictions about their effect on the garment trade in the leading 80 garment exporting countries.Normally £500, it's just £400 to June 30. And initial buyers get a FREE copy of edition 2, when we revise our forecasts in the light of new events and reader and commentator feedback.
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