India Sourcing Reports — Home Textiles & Women's Garments from India

Home Textiles — India Sourcing Report

India is among the world's top three suppliers of home textile products, and almost 80 percent of its US$1.2 billion worth of annual home textile exports are shipped to the US and the EU. The Home Textiles report covers bed linen, towels, table linen, drapery and cushion covers, with deep profiles of 15 major suppliers based on personal factory tours and interviews with senior managers, profile tables of 80 additional suppliers, a product gallery of 175 popular export home textiles, and a supplier survey summarising price, product, production and research trends for the following 12 months. India's traditional specialisations in embellishments such as embroidery and patchwork are a particular strength the report documents, alongside the steps companies are taking — in-house dyeing facilities, high-speed looms, vertical integration — to stay ahead as the market grows more competitive. The report's own pages, linked from this page, set out 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.

Women's Garments — India Sourcing Report

India is poised to be the next big winner after China in textile manufacturing, with garment exports expected to grow 20 percent year-on-year by the end of 2005, and women's garments account for an estimated 45 percent of the country's apparel shipments. The Women's Garments report profiles 84 key manufacturers, with 15 in-depth profiles and 69 short profile tables, a gallery of 125 popular export models, supplier rankings by key capabilities, a supplier survey and industry statistics and charts, across 117 pages published in January 2005 at US$445. Its industry overview covers design trends, price forecasts and quality control developments, and its sample pages — the how-you'll-benefit page, the industry overview and the executive summary — are built in this batch, with the report's remaining pages (the report page itself, table of contents, supplier profile and product gallery samples) following in the next part of this section. Women's tops including blouses and T-shirts make up an estimated 50 percent of output and exports, dresses and skirts about 30 percent combined, with trousers and sleepwear also covered.

How the India Reports Were Researched

All information in the India Sourcing Reports is the result of independent, impartial research conducted by Global Sources analysts, based on in-person factory tours and interviews with senior managers. That method is what separates a sourcing report from a directory listing: visiting the factory is how an analyst verifies production capacity, machinery, quality control and export experience, and how the outlook questions behind the supplier survey get answered by the companies themselves. Each report follows the same architecture — executive summary, industry overview, supplier profiles, product gallery and supplier contact details — so a buyer who learns to use one India report can use the other the same way, and can compare a home textiles supplier's profile structure directly with a women's garments supplier's. Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote these reports to the international fashion community; the research and the reports themselves are Global Sources work, and questions about a report or the status of an order go to Global Sources.

Choosing Between the Two Reports

The choice follows the product, not the country. Buyers sourcing bed linen, towels, table linen, drapery or cushion covers belong in the Home Textiles report, where the gallery's 175 products and the Karur production hub analysis frame the supplier profiles. Buyers sourcing women's tops, dresses, skirts, trousers or sleepwear belong in the Women's Garments report, where the post-quota export analysis and the automation and capacity expansion plans of 84 manufacturers frame the shortlist. Buyers active in both categories will find the two reports complementary: the same post-quota moment, the same research team and the same profile template, applied to two different Indian supply bases — one built on cotton textiles and handwork embellishment for the home, the other on garment manufacturing for export apparel markets in the US, the EU and Canada, which together absorbed about 95 percent of India's garment exports.