Textile industry, today.
Now, in the second half of this year 2016, as a six-monthly balance, I would like to share with you the vision and expectations of professionals and businessmen of the textile industry that I was able to...
On the way to 2025.
The large number of changes, both in the financial and technological landscape, as well as the social and political scenario, has triggered an irreversible impact on the way companies will work on a global scale...
A Great Dragon of two faces.
Today, China is not the same it was ten years ago.
We all agree with this statement, right?
Has the “golden age” of foreign companies in China come to an end?
Do we also agree on the...
You and your provider.
The goal was clear. You had to make a purchase in China or Asia and try to avoid this situation.
But maybe you couldn’t make it and you have worked with a provider who simply wasn’t...
The Chinese business culture.
During all these years living and working in Asia, my work team and I have discovered some mistakes people repeatedly make when negotiating in China.
On the one hand, the success of business deals in "The...
Textile sourcing is global.
As we mentioned in the last three articles, we are now experiencing a situation of adjustment in the textile sector because of the hike in costs in China and its new socioeconomic context that is making...
Instability of factories in China.
Law firms and every other professionals who provide legal services for foreign businesses operating in China receive calls or emails from their clients because their Chinese supplier has sent them a product with quality issues,...
Meaning and magnitude of the Chinese New Year.
The Chinese New Year, also known in China as the Spring Festival or as the Lunar New Year in the West, is the most important traditional celebration of the year in the Chinese calendar, and it is...
Reasons why it is difficult to purchase or produce in small quantities in China.
Many companies, business men and entrepreneurs want to produce or buy their product in China, but that is not always the best option.
There are three important...
Gabriel F. Iribarren (Ripley): “Latin America needs political stability to compete in sourcing”.
Gabriel Farias Iribarren is a specialist in textile sourcing. With over twenty years’ experience in the fashion industry, he has been a Director for China and South...
Why do Chinese providers often make a wrong estimate?
Thanks to your experience producing or importing products from China, you know it’s quite common for estimates to be handled inaccurately.
There are a few perhaps vary basic reasons –and very...
Brief analysis of current reality of the countries that make up the region.
For more than a decade, several countries in Southeast Asia with emerging economies are pushing to become the new “Factory of the world”. With noticeably lower salaries...
Countless times, in market fairs and meetings with providers, we have heard the following question from the western buyer to the Chinese vendor:
Do you own a factory?
Or a similar question but expressed with “a sense of need”, not to...
Dear all,
Below is my last article of 2016 published on my blog Modaes.es.
In this article, I discuss the current situation of the textile sector and the most distinctive aspects of the fashion industry, in which we have dabbled with...
Fashion supply, its present and future.
Although we can claim that the main global trend in textile sourcing during the last few years has been the search for a substitute for China, we know today that this unique and perfect...
New developing countries want to challenge China for the title of “the factory of the world”.
“Together with dynamic and very versatile countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, Southeast Asia consolidates itself as a new and powerful...
Natural Textile Fibers
In the last few months, I have received several questions through the blog regarding natural textile fibers. Evidently, from the perspective of fashion consumers...
