market research clothing in china

• The enormous surplus of labor in China imperils workers worldwide as international competition puts incessant downward pressure on wages and working conditions, leading the apparel and textile industries to favor the cheapest and most Draconian producers.

The United States is no longer a leader for manufacturing and China is currently in their ‘Industrial Revolution’ economy. Manufacturing jobs have been exported overseas, that has decline in the leverage to unionize labor (Uchitelle, 2018). The auto industry alone has been drastically hit, with the 2009’s “too big to fail” stimulus package to save the industry.

Third, Chinese currency appreciation makes Chinese products more expensive to developed countries. In 1994, the dollar-to-yuan exchange rate for was 8.7, and 18 years later, the rate has decreased to 6.3, which means Americans have to pay 28% more to buy the same “made in China” products. Furthermore, the regulations and tariffs western countries have imposed on China make export more difficult and costly.

In modern times trade between Americans and Asians in the market has increased. After WW2 the resource-lacking country of Japan had two options: find an alternative power source to oil, or trade. It became obvious in the late 20th century, which route they chose. “Made in Japan” used to be plastered over thousands of consumer products in America, and moving into the 21st century, this has shifted to “Made in China”; on almost every item an American buys, they can find the “Made in China” tag. Unfortunately, the Americans educational system has taught people from a young age to scorn such a tag, and they deride the Chinese that can produce cheap socks for them, before quickly placing the item in their carts. Conversely, if Americans were educated on the principles of free trade, they would understand the concept of comparative advantage, and be thankful for the efficient Chinese

Dependence on Imports - The large majority of clothes sold in US stores is made abroad by low-cost manufacturers. Tariffs, quotas, foreign exchange risk, and other import restrictions can affect the supply and cost of clothing. Purchasing typically requires long lead times, limiting a company 's ability to react quickly to fashion trends

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“All of my life for sale” project seems to have shaped the way people sell items and new ways to get rid of used items that are no longer needed or wanted. Reviewing the description John Fryer put for the Converse Sneakers is subjective in all ways. His description of these sneakers was towards the manufacturer and manufacturing of the product then of the product condition itself. It was descriptive towards who and where these shoes were manufactured and the jobs that were lost due to it. He also describes other companies that have chosen to outsource to other countries and strip the workforce of America. He states “The last American made shoe, now made in China, while China holds American men and women hostage.. I don't see GE, Nike, GM or

With the recent rapid growth of our company, Kinetic should take a big step in production. Demand is skyrocketing and we need to make a decision on manufacturing our products. Research shows that the United States will be an appropriate place to manufacture if our company wants to save money on shipping costs. Factories will be set in convenient places where the products could be easily transported to our warehouse. Producing shoes in the United States will allow Kinetic to access product inventory with ease. Shipping from other countries will be time-consuming. Taking the road of producing the product locally, however, will come at a big cost.

The relationship between international politics and offshore athletic shoe production is a surprisingly complex one. Its origins are in the era of the Cold War, when American shoe companies began moving their production offshore. Nike closed the last of their factories based in the United States in 1975, choosing instead to put their factories in the countries that were close allies. While China now produces one third of all athletic shoes, most athletic shoe factories were located in South Korea from the seventies through the nineties (Enloe, 272).

Inditex ensures that its fashion is fast through its supply chain efforts. They have created new methods to enable store managers to order and display merchandise faster and added cargo routes for shipping goods. The company ships clothing straight from the factory to stores and makes two-thirds of its goods in Spain and nearby countries, compared to most competitors who manufacture most of their clothing in Asia. Inditex has their sales managers monitoring computers, which are reporting sales at every store around the world. When a garment does well or fails, they are able to quickly tell designers if they need to come up with new ideas. They also have generated

In addition, although men tend to shop less than women, the rise of the Internet and online retailing provided them more confidence. This was through popular apparel site such as ASOS. Furthermore, at first even though Australia picked up the e-commerce trend gradually, now they have fully incorporated online retailing, which has led to more spending on luxury brands. E-tailers such as ASOS have set up local distribution centres to meet the growing demand. Lastly, in 2013 the current value growth of 5% was marginally higher then the review period current value of 4%. This is mainly because the demand for luxury goods increased. Overall, the luxury apparel market has quite a few trends in Australia and this is primarily due to the fact that the size of the market is growing.

Apparel and shoe manufacturers continued to offload the more costly yet easily replicated part so their business models to concentrate on brand building, marketing, sales and attaining greater distribution channels globally. These are the pressures all apparel and shoe manufacturers face, and it is particularly challenging in the athletic show industry (Kynge, 2009). Adidas, Converse, Nike and Reebok have been outsourcing production of their shoes for in some cases nearly three decades. Nike was one of the leaders in this strategy, seeing to create a more efficient supply chain and also drop the labor and union costs of manufacturing in the U.S. (Boje, Khan, 2009). Adidas, Converse and Reebok have all followed Nike's lead, with Adidas benefitting from the fall-out generated when investigate reports showed Nike using child labor throughout Pakistan and Vietnam (Boje, Khan, 2009). All four of these companies share a common prioritization of manufacturing operations, yet none of them with the exception of Nike has a comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program in place to ensure ethical compliance to global standards of outsourcing in their industry (Nike Investor Relations, 2012). The intent of this analysis is to compare and contrast the four companies mentioned and their outsourcing practices. Their reasons for choosing to outsource are very much the same; the industry is shrinking

Inditex, as stated on its website, is one of the world’s largest fashion distributors: nearly 6 million of items were put on the market in 2006 (Figure 1). With eight sales concepts Zara, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Kiddy 's Class they boast nowadays 3,701 stores in 68 countries, distributed as shown in Table 1.

The Chinese Central Bank devalued the RMB on August 11, 2014 which was the largest drop in the RMB ever. And the devaluation continued for two days and accumulatively knock 4.4% off the value of RMB on August 13, 2015(COUGH & BRADSHER). While Chine grew to become the second largest economy in the world, RMB, as the national currency of China has been gaining in value steadily and such a sudden downward move raises worldwide attention. The problem is that the devaluation of the RMB has caused the slowdown of Chinese manufacturers. As a result, Chinese companies will lay-off employers.

Inditex, Industrias de Diseño Textil SA, is a group of almost one hundred companies dedicated to the different activities encompassed by the business of designing, manufacturing and distributing textile goods.