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Cutting cost can be the difference between your business profiting or breaking even (not losing or gaining money). Choosing where to have your clothing produced can save your business money in the start up phase by simply staying local?that?s it?STAY LOCAL!…Producing overseas or in another state is not the most logical choice being most startups don?t have the necessary resources to have a quality control person to oversee your production run and also shipping charges occur during the manufacturing process?approving samples and shipping your production run back and forth to an out-of-state company or overseas $$. Staying local allows you to over see the production run quality with each piece and to stay on top of the process to make sure everything is running smoothly. Ultimately it can save you money on shipping, damaged production run (wasted goods), and hiring staff to oversee quality control and a headache. Ask CEO of Ecko ($6million in debt because of overseas production)
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December 15th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
That is some of the best advice it worked for us most def
December 15th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
What if your state has no resources to produce your line of apparel ? Did you look at apparel manufacturing in the USA lately ? Not exactly a rosy picture. The past five years have seen thousands of factories close due to globalization and consumers wanting the lowest prices at retail. Ecko loses 6 mil due to production woes overseas ? Gotta blame someone for their own stupidity. This is just idiotic.They insist on making overseas ( no domestic production in at least 24 months) and when market conditions change, they start crying foul. Yeah right. Greed got the better part of them.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
“What if your state has no resources to produce your line of apparel ?”Interesting,Well then make the process as painless as possible….it’s a choice to produce them locally…if you have that choice. If not then you must go to another state or overseas you just have to make sure your ready to put in that extra work to oversee your production and pay the price of not producing locally,?you will?be?incurring extra shipping and hiring a quality control manager ultimately increasing cost on your end..btw i love your comments, keep’em coming.Fashion Industry Ceo
September 27th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
There has got to be a local screenprinter in or around your hometown anywhere in the US, and that’s how most of start out. Buying blanks from one place taking them to a local screenprinter with your images and voila…your own little clothing (tshirt) line.
If there isn’t a local screenprinter, maybe there’s a new line of work for you to try out too. They can do some nice business.
March 21st, 2008 at 12:05 am
Because of this advice, I am doing just that- staying local… local sample makers, local small run production
June 11th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
How does one find local manufacturers? Is there a database somewhere for American manufacturers. Everyone keeps pointing me to http://www.alibaba.com, but that website appears to be for overseas companies only. I’m looking to produce some button down shirts for children.