Garment Reports: China Sourcing Reports for Clothing and Apparel

The Eight Garment Report Categories

The garment range covers the clothing categories a garment buyer sources together. Children's Wear and Denim Garments are presented in full working detail in this section. Parkas and Windbreakers covers outerwear; Sleepwear and Swimwear cover their specialist garment lines; T-Shirts and Polo Shirts covers the knitwear staple of the apparel trade; Women's Undergarments covers its garment category; and Zippers — the one component report in the range — covers the fastening that almost every garment in the other seven reports depends on. Every category page set in this section presents one report in full: what you will get, how you will benefit, the table of contents, and sample pages for the executive summary, industry overview, supplier profile and product gallery.

The reports presented in this section are the Children's Wear report (82 suppliers, 157 products, 123 pages) and the Denim Garments report (71 suppliers, 112 products, 108 pages). Both were researched at a difficult moment for China garment sourcing — quota elimination followed by US and EU safeguards and a government export tax — and both reports document how garment suppliers responded: holding prices, moving to value-added models, integrating production and looking for growth markets beyond the restricted ones.

One Researched Format Across Every Category

All information in the China Sourcing Reports is the result of independent, impartial research conducted by Global Sources analysts, based on in-person factory tours. That shared method is what makes the range usable as a set: a buyer sourcing several garment categories meets the same profile structure, the same gallery format and the same survey questions in each report, so suppliers in different categories can be judged by the same standards of capability, capacity and outlook. Deep profiles of the leading suppliers in each category are matched by short profile tables covering the wider field, so both the headline makers and their smaller competitors are visible before a shortlist is drawn.

Report Updates Offer

A limited-time offer applied to this range: China Sourcing Reports published from January 2009 onwards — excluding other country reports — came with one year of free report updates from the date of purchase, sent by e-mail in PDF format only, at a frequency varying by title from monthly to half-yearly. Updates could include product and pricing trends, research and design developments, materials and components, production hubs, industry composition and the contact details of interviewed suppliers. The offer applied to the China reports only. Questions about a report or the status of an order were handled by the Global Sources contact named in the navigation on this page.