The Apparel Sourcing Week, the premier sourcing week that concluded in Bengaluru today, was supposed to create business opportunities for its exhibitors, Indian brands and retailers. And this target was very well achieved at the do,adding more value to the big chunk of the industry which visited the fair, especially midlevel garment manufacturers and start-ups.
Team Apparel Resources met such companies who were enthusiastic about the event as their take away from the same was quite fruitful.
“We started garment unit of 400 machines just a year back and working majorly through buying houses but now after visiting ASW, I am quite hopeful that now we will be able to work directly with few retailers to whom we met at the seminars,” informed Santosh Kumar Hiremath, CEO, Shree Sadashiv garments. The manufacturing facility of the company is Sedex and Inditex approved. “With the learning of ASW we are motivated to enter in Indian domestic market and to enhance product portfolio,” He further added. So far, the company is making casual and formal shirts only.
Pano Export, Tirupur is currently into export mainly. With 3 stores in South India, the company is growing into multiple fronts. Its Partner EP Venugopalan shared with Apparel Resources, “ASW helped to think deeply about Indian domestic market and I am now geared up to increase our store count.”
Rahul Bhaskar who has initiated his private label “I’l BE IT” was happy with the fabric and patch work in the garments displayed here. “Such innovative fabrics and collection I could not explore in India. I was in doubt that Bangladeshi exporter will work with us or not as our order quantity is small but few companies assured us to support by doing small orders too.”
ASW proved to be an eye-opener for fabric supplier Abhishek Jain of Indus Clothing Company as it was his first experience to explore collection of Bangladeshi garment manufacturers. “Though data of Bangladesh apparel exporters speaks itself about the scale and growth of their industry but as today I saw their collection, I realized how much hard-work Indian companies have to put in to compete with them,” he added.
