Welcome to Clothesource
Clothesource is the world’s most comprehensive information resource for the apparel industry
Sourcing Intelligence: Our unique database, which provides you with all the information you need on the world’s manufacturing countries.
The Source: Our newsletter dedicated to stories that keep you up to date with changes in the global apparel industry, including an archive of articles going back to 2003
Stay up to date in a changing world.
The Source is our monthly newsletter. It is entirely dedicated to news on the global sourcing of apparel. Articles cover information about manufacturers and retailers, political issues, duty and quota changes, labour, and lots more.
It comes in a printable PDF format, which you can also download from this website. Our archive of articles stretching back to 2003 allows you to search easily for information on a wide range of subjects.
Annual subscription £150 $300 €225 Euros
Clothesource has the answers..
Sourcing Intelligence is the most advanced information source of its kind, providing apparel buyers and manufacturers with in depth information about every manufacturing country in the world, and covering product categories. Information is updated quarterly
The information is available in two formats: in numerical tables, and in interactive charts. You can choose whichever format you find easiest to work with
Search by product sector
You can find out which countries have the highest share of your product category, you can see the average prices for your product from each country, and you can see how share and price have changed in each country since 2004.
Search by manufacturing country
You can read the profile for each country, and then see with the help of tables and charts which product categories the country is strongest in, average prices for the country by product, and what changes have taken place since 2004. Profiles also include information on wages, duty, quota and much more
You can switch quickly and easily between countries and categories, allowing for a easy search.
Annual subscription: £1750 ($3500: €2,600)
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The Clothesource Handbook of Apparel Sourcing
Now in its 4th edition, The Clothesource Handbook 2007/8 is firmly established as the complete guide to the global clothing industry and an indispensable tool in the arsenal of any clothing business.
he new Handbook outlines apparel trading data on 230 countries and detailed profiles of 102 countries in 31 product categories, analysing world ranking, market share, capacity, price competitiveness and trends.
The tables are easy to read, with detailed commentary on individual countries, information on capacity and raw material availability. Based on trading figures up to Q4 2006 it provides the most up to date analysis of global trade in clothing available today.
The World after 2007
The Clothesource summary of how the world of apparel sourcing has changed in the past decade, the key issues for the next five years, and country-by-country forecasts for all supplying countries
£500 ($1000, €750)