Garment Industry Infrastructure




 Factor 1: Yarn fibre  to Loom

 Factor 2: Garment manufacturers, contractors, retail product development (Manufacturing Level)

 Factor 3: Manufacturer-owned retailers, outlets, catalog retailers, warehouse

 Factor 4: Consumers


Factor 1: Mill Categories: - 
                 Textiles & finding manufacturers: loom Fabrics, zippers, threads, trims, and &Buttons.
                 A few apparel manufacturers are vertically integrated with textile production. some apparel manufactures buy from vendor’s open stocks.
Factor 2: Garment manufacturing level 

           Garment manufacturers: Marketing, merchandising, and production. Apparel production is categorized in two types.

     1) Perform manufacturing within own facilities and employees.   https://amzn.to/3myEOQ1
     2) Contact some or all of the manufacturing functions to other firms. Contracting even categorized in 3  sub category. These are like -

         i) Cut-make-trim (CMT) contactors: supply operators, machines, and thread and make garments.
         ii) Full package program (FPP): source materials and develop patterns as well as make garments. Greater financial responsibility. FPP might higher CMT contractors.
         iii) Specialty contractors: provide services such as pattern grading, cutting, embroidering, belt making, fabric pleating, or screen printing.
Factor 3: Retail level
Retailing means selling clothing to the consumer. Apparel manufacturers may be forward vertically integrated into the retail sector through owning their own stores.
Retailing format: there is seven different format of garment retailing as following,
  • Catalog retailers (Examples: Land's End, L.L. Beans). 
  • Department store retailers (Examples: Dillard’s, Macy’s). 
  • Internet retailers 
  • Mass retailers: offer consumer goods in a discount with self service environment (Examples: Walmart, Target, and J.C. Penney).   https://amzn.to/3myEOQ1
  • Specialty retailers: offer a large selection of a limited line of consumer goods with narrow target customers (Examples: Victoria’s Secret, Nordstrom). 
  • Ware house/wholesale clubs (Examples: Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s). 
  • Retailer outlets: clearance centers of the previous season’s and year’s. 


Factor 4: Consumers
Decisions at all levels are based on  the product 
forecasts of customer demand.