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DEFINITION
1 : A collective term for someone (a person or firm) who agrees to furnish materials or perform services at a specified price. 2 : Includes all initial stages of production from patternmaking, cutting and sewing to all final stages of production from trimming wet processing, garment dyeing, postcuring, final pressing to ticketing, folding and packaging. Independent producers who perform sewing operations, and sometimes cutting,f or apparel manufacturers and / or jobbers ( and increasingly for retai,lers). Typically, contractors receive cut garments in bundled form an process them into completed garments. Many contrctors and manufacturers have long-standing working relationships and function virtually as parrtners in producing garment lines. Contractors can be domestic or offshore.

Also known as: contracter , apparel contractor , textile contractor , apparel factory , garment factory , clothing factory , Entrepreneurs , Fremdfirmen , Appaltatori , Contratistas , Contratantes

DIRECTORY

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EVENTS

american apparel & footwear association aafa annual meeting M W C T
apparel's china symposium & sourcing gair M W C A
asap global sourcing show M W C A S
asia global sourcing ags M W C A S T
asia pacific fashion forum aplf
fatex M W C T
full package summit M W C A S
global fashion private label production & sourcing M W C A S
international dyeing & finishing expo M W C A
mega sourcing show M W C A
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PUBLICATIONS

apparel manufacturing sewn products analysis book
california apparel news newspaper
clothesource handbook book
designing, manufacturing, and marketing book
inside the fashion business book
life after 2004: quotas pdf
pricetrak newsletter
the source newsletter pdf

NEWS

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    Quilting
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