China Sourcing Report — Parkas & Windbreakers: how you'll benefit
A sourcing report earns its price by changing decisions, and this page sets out how the Parkas & Windbreakers China Sourcing Report does that for a buyer of parkas and windbreakers. The report profiles 87 manufacturers across 125 pages, with a gallery of 174 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.

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 174 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 parkas and windbreakers from China, compare your current suppliers against the profiled 87: 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.
Suppliers profiled: 87 | Products in the gallery: 174 | Pages: 125 | Published: February 2006 | Price: US$445
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.


Decision-grade evidence for sourcing parkas and windbreakers from China: an industry overview, profiles of 87 manufacturers researched in person, a supplier survey on prices, sales and capacity, and a gallery of 174 export products with ordering details.
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 parkas and windbreakers.
125 pages, published in February 2006, priced at US$445. It includes supplier contact details so shortlisted manufacturers can be approached directly.