Sunglasses Report — How You'll Benefit: Sourcing Sunglasses from China
China Sourcing Report — Sunglasses: how you'll benefit
A sourcing report earns its price by changing decisions, and this page sets out how the Sunglasses China Sourcing Report does that for a buyer of sunglasses. The report profiles 73 manufacturers across 113 pages, with a gallery of 165 export products, and its benefits run from the strategic — reading where an industry's costs and capacity are heading — to the immediately practical, such as comparing a model's minimum order and delivery time before requesting a sample. The navigation directly below this introduction carries every link on this page, including the report's table of contents and the sample pages for the executive summary, industry overview, supplier profile and product gallery, so each claimed benefit can be checked against the report itself.
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How You'll Benefit From the Sunglasses Report
- Identify companies focusing R&D efforts on new frame shapes, special lens coatings, and new materials and functions.
- Discover which manufacturers are expanding production capacity, either by purchasing advanced equipment or building new plants.
- Find out what R&D teams in China are doing to make sports models more lightweight and ergonomic while also improving visibility.
- Understand the children's sunglasses sector, including the trend to release designs with wire-rim and rimless frames, long popular on adult models.
- Pre-qualify manufacturers before a sourcing trip using 16 in-depth profiles and 57 short profile tables covering 73 suppliers in all.
- Compare 165 popular export products with minimum orders, delivery times and indicated prices stated model by model.
Putting the Benefits to Work
Benefits only count when they change a shortlist, a negotiation or an order, so the report is organised to be used, not just read. Work through the industry overview first to fix the market frame — costs, prices, capacity and direction — then use the supplier survey answers to see where the industry itself expects prices and sales to go. Move to the profiles with that frame in mind: a supplier whose outlook matches the overview's evidence is a different prospect from one whose claims the market data contradicts. Finish in the product gallery, where 165 export models with stated minimum orders, delivery times and indicated prices let you test whether a shortlisted supplier's range actually contains the products you buy.
The same sequence works in reverse for benchmarking. If you already source sunglasses from China, compare your current suppliers against the profiled 73: their product mix, manufacturing capability, outlook and popular export models are all set out on the same template, which makes gaps — in design capacity, in quality control, in export experience — visible at a glance. That is the practical return on a researched report: fewer surprises after the order is placed.
Sunglasses Report at a Glance
Suppliers profiled: 73 | Products in the gallery: 165 | Pages: 113 | Published: November 2004 | Price: US$395
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. Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote these sourcing reports to the international fashion community. Questions about a report or the status of an order go to the Global Sources contact named in the navigation on this page.
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Common Questions
What is the main benefit of the Sunglasses report?
Decision-grade evidence for sourcing sunglasses from China: an industry overview, profiles of 73 manufacturers researched in person, a supplier survey on prices, sales and capacity, and a gallery of 165 export products with ordering details.
How do I benchmark a current supplier with this report?
Compare your supplier against the profiled companies on the same points the profiles use — products, manufacturing capability, outlook and popular export models — and against the overview's market data on prices, materials and capacity in sunglasses.
How long is the Sunglasses report and what does it cost?
113 pages, published in November 2004, priced at US$395. It includes supplier contact details so shortlisted manufacturers can be approached directly.