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What do you call a company that sells clothing to
“retailers”?
In the fashion industry, companies that purchase clothing from factories
for re-sale to RETAILERS generally consider themselves to be “Apparel
Manufacturers”. Why do we call ourselves manufacturers? According to my
1992 edition of the New Expanded Webster’s Dictionary, a MANUFACTURER is
‘one who manufactures; owner of manufactory’.
If we own or work for a company that does not have “direct” ownership in
facilities that which “produce / manufacture” garments we should be
considered “WHOLESALERS”.
If you go to our MANUFACTURER section you
will find clothing FACTORIES.
If you go to our WHOLESALER
section, you will find companies that buy clothing from MANUFACTURERS and
then re-sell the clothing to the RETAILERS.
By the way, some companies do both… Yeah, that is confusing.
written by Apparel Search 1/29/03
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