Clothing manufacturer in Bangladesh for retailers

Yes, and the manual is where we start rather than where we end up. Send it before we quote: it tells us which audits the producing site must hold, which tests apply to the product, your AQL level and measurement tolerances, your labelling and packing rules, and any restricted substances list. We then shortlist factories that already meet those requirements instead of promising an upgrade that may not happen. During production, ask for the evidence your team files; at shipment you receive the final inspection report alongside the export documents, the certificate of origin and any test reports you ordered. If something in the manual is impractical for a particular construction or fabric, we raise it at quotation, in writing, rather than discovering it at final inspection when the goods are already made. Manuals are updated each season, so send the current version with every order.

Carefully, because split orders are where consistency usually breaks. First, we agree one sealed sample and one set of approved colour standards that every factory works to, rather than letting each site approve its own. Second, we align the fabric source where possible, since the same specification from two mills will not look identical. Third, each site is inspected to the same AQL and tolerances, with the same inspection report format, so you can compare like with like. Finally, we tell you which factory produced which delivery, and mark the cartons accordingly, so a quality question can be traced to a site rather than to the whole order. If a split is likely to compromise the range, we will say so and propose a single-factory plan instead, even where a split would be quicker.

Yes, before you pay a deposit. Once we have shortlisted the factory for your product, you receive its latest social audit report with the audit ID, its building-safety status on the International Accord’s public factory list, the certificates relevant to your order with their numbers, and the factory’s licences. BSCI and SMETA reports travel through their own platforms, amfori’s Sustainability Platform and Sedex, so a member company opens them there; if your company is not a member, the factory sends the report to you directly and its audit ID lets you confirm that it is genuine. If your manual specifies an audit the shortlisted factory does not hold, we tell you before the order rather than after, and shortlist again. What we never do is present one factory’s certificate as covering another.

Yes, and we recommend it for a first programme. Independent inspection firms with offices in Dhaka can run a pre-production factory audit and a final random inspection to your AQL, priced per inspector-day; we book their access, share the sealed sample and the measurement chart with them, and our own inspection continues through production alongside theirs. Laboratory testing can be run at the accredited laboratory your manual names, in Bangladesh or abroad, and we send the samples with the test request written to your specification so the report answers the questions your compliance team will ask. If your inspector fails a lot, the goods do not ship until the rework or sorting is agreed with you, and who pays is set out in the order terms before production, not negotiated afterwards. A supplier who resists an independent inspector is telling you something; we welcome them at any stage.

Yes: garments can leave the factory floor-ready, on your nominated hanger with the size marker, swing ticket, barcode and price ticket already attached, provided the specification is in the order before trims are bought. Retail-ready packing is a separate operation from bulk polybags and is quoted as its own line. Hangers, tickets and barcode labels are ordered on the same timetable as the fabric, because a nominated ticket that arrives late stops the line. Send the hanger reference, the ticket artwork or your nominated ticket supplier, and a table linking every barcode to style, colour and size. Say whether garments are packed flat or on the hanger inside the carton, since that changes the carton size and the freight. Ticketing is checked on the pre-production sample and again at final inspection. If you need security tags applied at source, say so in the enquiry and we confirm it on the quote.

Yes: a retail range that mixes knitwear, woven shirts and denim can be run through one contact, because we make the knitwear in our own factory, place the woven shirts and denim with partner factories that specialise in them, and manage them all on one critical path. Factories in Bangladesh are specialists, and the unit that makes good jersey t-shirts is rarely the right one for denim or woven shirts, so ask any single factory that quotes a whole range which parts it sews itself. With us, each producing site is named to you in writing before production, with its address and audit reports. Minimums differ by category and apply per style and colour: 500 pieces for t-shirts and hoodies, 2,000 for woven shirts, denim jeans and jackets, and from 500 for other categories, with the exact figure on your quote. A colour that runs across categories needs one approved standard issued to every mill.

The retailer that imports own-label clothing and sells it under its own name is legally responsible for it in the EU, not the factory in Bangladesh. Under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011, where the manufacturer is not established in the Union the importer must ensure the fibre label is supplied and accurate, and a distributor selling under its own name or trademark counts as the manufacturer. Article 13 of the General Product Safety Regulation, applied since 13 December 2024, treats whoever places a product on the market under its own name or trademark as the manufacturer, and Article 11 requires the importer’s name and postal and electronic address on the product or its packaging. In the United States the importer issues any certificate the Consumer Product Safety Commission requires. What we supply is the evidence: the named factory, the test reports you order and label artwork checked at sampling.

Your documents carry over; the approvals are made again. Send what you already have as it stands: the tech pack, the graded measurement chart with tolerances, colour standards, label, ticket and packing artwork, barcode tables, your supplier manual and your test requirements. An unworn garment from current production is the quickest reference for fabric, fit and finish. What is redone is everything a new factory has to prove: fabric is sourced and each colour approved as a lab dip, a size set is made, and a new pre-production sample is sealed, because a sample sealed with your previous supplier is not a standard a new factory’s bulk can be inspected against. If you own the patterns, ask your current supplier to release them; if they are not released, the pattern is made again from the garment and the measurement chart. Sampling is charged separately and quoted first. The factory that would make the range is named in writing before production, with its address, certificates and audit reports, so your compliance team can check them against your supplier manual. The first order is a normal production order at our normal minimums: from 500 pieces per style and colour, and 2,000 for woven shirts, denim, jackets, workwear and uniforms, with the exact minimum on your quote.

Yes, a retailer can place a trial order first, but it is a normal production order at our normal minimums rather than a reduced run: from 500 pieces per style and colour, t-shirts and hoodies included, and 2,000 for woven shirts, denim, jackets, workwear and uniforms, with the exact minimum on your quote. A trial is most useful when it tests what a programme depends on, so run it through your full process: the supplier manual, a critical path with a date for each stage, your nominated laboratory, an AQL final inspection and the complete document set. Choose a continuity style rather than a fashion piece, so the result can be reordered. Ask for the trial to be made in the factory that would take the full programme, named in writing with its audit reports, because a trial in one site proves little about another. Judge it on dates held and documents delivered as well as on the garment.

The ASN is sent by the vendor the retailer has set up for EDI: the brand or importer, or the EDI provider or warehouse it uses. The carton labels can be applied at the factory, but their numbers should come from you. GS1’s logistic label guideline says the Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) on each label is assigned from the GS1 Company Prefix of the company that allocates it, which can be the physical builder or the brand owner of the unit, that the shipper should use its own prefix, and that the ASN should list each carton’s SSCC and contents. Myer, for one, asks the same of its suppliers: its EDI overview guide (November 2018) makes GS1 Australia membership and a company prefix a condition of trading by EDI. So the numbers come from your prefix and your system: send the labels as print-ready files, one per carton, with the carton each belongs to, and ask for them to be applied at packing, on the side your manual names. The alternative is for your warehouse to label the cartons on arrival before they go on to the retailer. Either way, the ASN has to describe the cartons as they were actually packed, which is why the packing rule, pieces per carton and carton marks belong in the order, and why the carton labels should be checked at final inspection.