Sourcing Reports Directory — Apparel & Textile Industry Reports

China Sourcing Reports: Garments, Clothing & Apparel

The garment reports cover the categories a clothing buyer sources most often from China: children's wear, denim garments, leather garments, parkas and windbreakers, sleepwear, T-shirts and polo shirts, women's undergarments, and zippers as a garment component. Each title profiles the major manufacturers in its category — the T-Shirts and Polo Shirts report, for example, profiles 73 suppliers and shows 102 export products across 102 pages, while the Women's Undergarments report profiles 51 suppliers and 81 products, and the Zippers report examines the component trade behind finished garments. The shared structure matters here: the industry overview in each title prices the category and maps its capacity before the profiles judge individual factories, which keeps a buyer from comparing a denim specialist and a sleepwear maker on the wrong measures. Sample pages for the executive summary, industry overview, supplier profile and product gallery accompany each garment report, together with its table of contents and a page setting out how a buyer benefits.

China Sourcing Reports: Fashion Accessories

Alongside the garment titles, the China accessory reports cover casual backpacks and schoolbags, slippers, casual footwear, computer bags, costume jewelry, hats and caps, sunglasses, leather bags and wallets, watches, and luggage. Accessories sourcing turns on different questions from garment sourcing — smaller minimum orders, faster style turnover, and a heavier weight on materials and finishing — and the reports answer in the same researched format: factory-tour profiles rather than catalogue listings, a gallery of popular export models with minimum order, packaging, delivery time and indicated price, and a supplier survey on the year ahead. A buyer building a full range can move between the garment and accessory directories knowing the evidence behind each shortlist was gathered the same way.

China Textile Reports and India Sourcing Reports

Two China textile reports sit in this directory: Home Textiles, profiling 90 suppliers and 225 products across 136 pages from August 2005, covering bedding, towels, drapery and table linen; and Knitted Fabric, profiling 72 suppliers and 168 products across 114 pages from November 2005, covering single and jersey, double and interlock, rib, purl, tricot and raschel constructions. The India Sourcing Reports complete the directory: Home Textiles India, with 95 suppliers and 175 products, and Women's Garments India, with 84 suppliers and 125 products, both built on the same factory-tour research applied to India's cotton textile and garment supply bases. Textile reports reward a different reading from garment reports — the buyer is choosing a fabric or a made-up textile first and a factory second — and the overviews carry the weight: export totals, safeguard actions, price direction and industry composition, before any single supplier is judged.

Magazines Alongside the Reports

Readers who use the reports often also follow the Global Sources magazines promoted through Apparel Search, including the Fashion Accessories Magazine and the Garments & Textiles Magazine. The division of labor is simple: a magazine follows a category continuously, issue by issue, while a sourcing report freezes one category at research depth — profiles, prices, capacity and survey evidence gathered on factory floors at a stated moment. Buyers use the report to build a shortlist and the magazines to stay current between reports. Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote these reports and magazines to the international fashion community; the research itself is Global Sources work, and questions about a report or the status of an order go to Global Sources.