Swimwear Report — Supplier Profile — Sample Pages: Sourcing Swimwear from China

Supplier Profile: Antex (De Qing) Fashion Co. Ltd

Antex (De Qing) Fashion Co. Ltd, established in 2004, is a large maker and exporter of garments based in Deqing, Zhejiang, with a second factory in Hanoi, Vietnam covering 2,000 square metres with 150 employees. The company posted sales of US$30 million in the year covered, a 100 percent increase on 2004 earnings, and swimwear takes up 45 percent of total sales. All output is exported, mainly to Italy, France and Spain, and Italy's Golden Lady and Verdissima are among its major OEM clients. The main factory covers 30,000 square metres with 1,650 employees in total, and monthly swimwear capacity is 660,000 pieces at 50 percent utilization.

Women's swimwear garments, priced from US$2.20 to US$12 per piece or set, take up 70 percent of output; the rest is divided equally between men's and children's models, with men's designs priced from US$2 to US$5 per piece and children's models from US$1.20 to US$6 — prices held stable for the year. Nylon and spandex blends are the most common materials, sourced from Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong; for upscale models, fabric is imported from Hong Kong or bought from international suppliers such as Invista, Eurojersey and DuPont, and most accessories are sourced locally, with some imported from Italy. A 62-member R&D team, including designers from Italy, releases 1,000 to 1,700 new models a year, with design and pattern development done using CAD software, a digital input device and equipment from Lectra and Algotex — product and fabric detail that lets a buyer judge the company's garment range and construction capability directly.

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The sample shows the profile template at work: company background and markets first, then products with price ranges, then manufacturing and research capability, then outlook. Across all 65 profiles that single template is the point — every manufacturer is examined on the same points, so a buyer can line profiles up and compare export shares, OEM and ODM mix, design capacity, quality systems and price positioning without translating between formats. Details such as a production checklist — lines, research and quality control staff, machinery and processes — turn a profile from a description into an audit summary.

Profiles also connect back to the rest of the report. A supplier's prices can be checked against the product gallery's 193 models and the industry overview's price trends, and its outlook against the supplier survey. When the three agree, a buyer has a supplier worth sampling; when they disagree, the profile has done its other job — showing where to ask harder questions before an order is placed.

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