Publications

Our unique, ready to buy, publications


Most Clothesource customers rely on:
- Our off-the-shelf reports, or
- Keeping in touch with us through a subscription

Our off-the-shelf reports

- The Clothesource Guide to the World in 2012

£400: Our estimates of how over 90 apparel exporting countries will develop between now and the end of 2012. Click here for more details

- The Garment Trade's Next Revolution: What's likely to change between 2010 and 2015

At £400, our new report reviews the changes likely to start transforming the industry again from about 2012, and makes specific, country by country, predictions about their effect on the garment trade in the leading 80 garment exporting countries.
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. Click here for more details or download the Garment revolution sample


- The Clothesource Guide to Trade Barriers and Special Preferences

The first in a series of authoritative guides to the trade. At £350, this is the second edition of our best-selling guide to the special rules affecting the world's apparel trade, with country-by-country explanations for how they affect buying clothes from 191 different countries. And a brief explanation of the likely (and unlikely) changes in the next five years. Click here for more details

- Sourcing Profiles

At £450 per business group, Clothesource Business Profiles provide the essential information about manufacturing capabilities around the world in each major apparel category.
In each business group, we show where the world's major apparel importing countries - Japan, the US and EU - buy their garments from, how supplier countries' share has evolved, how supplier countries' price competitiveness varies between countries, and how it has changed since quotas were abolished at the end of 2004.
The definitive account of what's made (and sold) where, who's buying it, selling prices and the key data about 31 product categories from 191 manufacturing countries. Seven volumes: one for each Business Group. Download our Profiles Brochure

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- The Clothesource Sourcing Kit

The Clothesource Sourcing Kit provides the apparel buyer with everything you need to be sure you're buying from the right place. Or, if you're a vendor, to evaluate your competition.
At £1750, it contains profiles of 180 supplying countries, showing each country's prices in 33 product categories from 2004 to the 2009. Each country's shares in each category - both today, and historially. Key data on each country's clothing, fabric and yarn manufacturing capacity, categoryspecific import duties for each countryinto the EU and US, and basic data on each country's economy. All in easy to present graphic charts, with tables of hard data to carry out your own analysis. Global garment sourcing made easy.
Click for details Or download our Sourcing Kit Brochure


Subscribing to Clothesource


There are two ways you can subscribe to the Clothesource knowledge base

- The Source

You can subscribe to The Source, our monthly newsletter from £150 a year for a single user subscription, or even less if you take advantage of our multiyear deals. As well as getting the world's most wide-ranging review of sourcing matters each month, a subscription to The Source also entitles you to:
- Search its archives, going back to 2002, and
- Have access to our basic version of Sourcing Intelligence: thumbnail summaries, updated annually, of the key sourcing issues and data for 92 apparel exporting countries and the 35 key product categories
To get immediate access to The Source, click here


- Subscribe to Sourcing Intelligence.

Or you can subscribe to Sourcing Intelligence.. This gives you all you need to review your sourcing strategy if you're a buyer, or your marketing strategy if you're a manufacturer - and to keep it reviewed as the year progresses. It gives you:
- all the benefits of a subscription to The Source, as well as:
- unique graphic presentations of growth, share and pricing
- Excel sheets of the data, so you can import them to your own applications
- quarterly updates of all data and graphics
- a voucher for up to £400 worth of Clothesource Special Reports each year. Enough, for example, to buy The World in 2012
Subscription to Sourcing Intelligence is £1750 a year for a single user, with multi-seat deals available.

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