BSCI certification is an important threshold for Anhui's clothing industry to enter the spring

"Six clothing giants bring $200 million in orders to "swept Anhui", Anhui's clothing industry ushered in spring"
This news is undoubtedly great news for Anhui clothing companies. Unfortunately, many Anhui clothing manufacturers are not unfamiliar with the BSCI certification proposed by international buyers, but they are afraid of trouble and are unwilling to do the certification. They can only sigh in despair. Shanghai Chaowang has been professionally engaged in BSCI certification counseling for more than ten years, ensuring that you can pass the BSCI factory inspection and obtain certification smoothly. Let's talk about the main topic:

If one day you find that the clothes of the famous sports brand Decathlon are "Made in Anhui", don't be surprised. Yesterday afternoon, the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce and Alibaba Group jointly held an "International Buyers Procurement Forum and Hefei Major Buyers Procurement Conference" in Hefei. Including C&A and Stockman, six international procurement giants with annual sales of over 100 billion yuan came to Hefei with international procurement orders of up to 200 million US dollars. They want to find their partners in Anhui, a major clothing province.

International giants take a fancy to "Made in Hefei"

At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the reporter arrived at the procurement negotiation site, the huge conference room was already full of people. On the podium, the general manager of the Hangzhou office of Charming Shoppes, an American large-size women's clothing retailer, was introducing their company and the cooperation they needed to the participants.

Outside the venue, in four separate negotiation rooms, the relevant persons in charge of six international procurement giants have begun to discuss cooperation matters with some Anhui enterprises. After waiting for their intermission, the reporter stopped Gong Juerui, the Shanghai regional director of Otto Group, a Fortune 500 company and a world leader in global international trade and services. "We came to Anhui to find long-term suppliers." Gong Juerui told the reporter straight to the point that with the increase in clothing manufacturing costs in China's coastal areas, many international brand clothing originally manufactured in coastal areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also facing huge price pressure in their domestic markets. In order to reduce the pressure on domestic customers, these brands have turned to central and western regions such as Anhui to find partners. "Originally, many garment factory workers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were from Anhui. Now there are also many high-quality garment factories in Anhui. Garment workers with certain skills have returned to Anhui again. Our company is looking for people from Anhui."

"In the 1980s, the main forces of China's clothing manufacturing industry were in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and later moved to Zhejiang and Fujian. Now, with the economic development of the southeastern coastal areas and the increase in the cost of labor, land and other factor resources, the procurement costs in these regions have also risen. International buyers have turned their attention to the central region adjacent to the east." Huang Kailin, senior director of Alibaba's buyer service department, said that Anhui is the "bridgehead" for the central and western regions to connect with the eastern coastal provinces, and it is natural that it should be the first to get the moon.

It's not easy to get a big order

During the one-hour wait outside the negotiation room, the reporter kept seeing entrepreneurs coming in and out, carrying snakeskin bags or dragging large suitcases filled with samples of their company's products. "It was similar to an interview. I think the discussion went quite well. We have the price advantage they need." Lu Jianzhong, general manager of Qianshan Jinlu Garments, smiled as he walked out of the Otu negotiation room. "Our company has experience in cooperating with European and American companies, but our big orders were obtained through large trade fairs such as the Canton Fair. This is the first time we have encountered an opportunity like this that took the initiative to come to our doorstep to discuss cooperation. If the cooperation is successful, our company's revenue can double."

However, the reporter did not encounter many confident entrepreneurs like Lu Jianzhong during the one-hour wait for the interview. "I didn't expect that they would also require BSCI certification, TT payment method, and many other regulations!" After learning that international big buyers were looking for suppliers in Anhui, Chen Qin from Hunan Xurong Garment Co., Ltd. flew to Hefei last night dragging a huge suitcase. Unexpectedly, she was rejected in negotiations with several big buyers. Chen Qin said that her clothing company is considered medium-sized in Hunan, with a monthly sales volume of 200,000 pieces. She brought a lot of exquisite samples, but she didn't expect that the foreigners would not look at the samples, but first asked whether her company had BSCI certification.

At 4 pm yesterday, two hours before the end of the procurement meeting, when the reporter returned to the conference room, he found that the companies that had just been crowded had already started to leave early. "We only received small orders before. Large orders are very tempting, but these international companies operate differently from domestic companies. For example, they pay special attention to environmental protection and fire protection, but they don't pay deposits for orders, and return unqualified products to the factory. We have limited capacity for such large orders." At the elevator entrance, a Hefei boss who was in a hurry to leave told reporters.

Anhui's clothing industry enters "spring"

"I also guessed that there would be such a result." Deng Xiaolei, manager of Anhui Zhongan Import and Export Co., Ltd., who successfully concluded the negotiation with Stockman, accepted an interview with reporters. He has been working in the Anhui clothing industry for more than ten years and frankly admitted that many Anhui clothing companies lost because of their "awareness". "The entry threshold of the clothing industry is low, so there are far fewer large companies in Anhui than in Zhejiang, and many small companies are mostly stuck in the lowest production stage; of the six major buyers who came today, few Anhui small and medium-sized enterprises attending the meeting can recognize all of them; many Anhui clothing manufacturers are not unfamiliar with the certifications mentioned by international buyers, but they are afraid of trouble and are unwilling to do certification. When they really meet a big buyer who abides by the rules, they can only sigh in despair."

Despite this, Deng Xiaolei still firmly believes that the spring of Anhui's clothing industry has arrived. "Anhui was once a major clothing province. In the planned economy era, Anhui's clothing industry ranked among the top in the country. Anhui has no shortage of clothing talents. Nearly 30% of clothing workers in coastal clothing companies are from Anhui, and there are millions of Anhui people working in the clothing industry in the Yangtze River Delta. The awareness that Anhui's clothing industry has always lacked will be made up with the influx of major international buyers, and the spring of Anhui's clothing industry is not far away."