Retail Focus Resource Guide
Selling in today’s fast-paced retail landscape requires out-of-the-ordinary products and compelling interior store design that will capture the attention of shoppers. Here we have highlighted apparel-related resources and trade shows that offer exceptional products and state-of-the-art technology solutions to ensure the most efficient management of your business.
Biatta is an intimate-apparel company known for its affordable yet classic and contemporary collections for the juniors, plus sizes, and sleepwear markets. The company produces elegant, quality bra and panty sets, babydolls, chemises, and sleepwear at appealing price points that ensure women can be sexy and professional as the mood takes them. Biatta recently relaunched its website, www.biatta.com, which caters to both retail and wholesale customers. The website will play a big part in the marketing of the brand as Biatta looks to expand globally and has implemented many interactive strategies to attract its ideal demographic.Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. provides ring-spun yarn with 100 percent Supima, 100 percent Micro Modal, 50/50 Supima Micro Modal, and 50/50 Supima Outlast. Yarn count ranges from 12/1 Ne to 90/1 Ne. New fabrics include Micro Tencel, Royal Spun, and fashion slub yarns in Supima and Supima Micro Modal that are super-soft, comfortable, durable, bright, and extraordinarily strong. Popular counts and blends are inventoried, and there are no minimums for samples. Buhler provides service, quality, innovation, and flexibility. Visit www.buhleryarns.com.Cotton Generation, Inc. will do fabric development to your specifications including cutting, sewing, and packing. We are now housed in one huge facility, making it easier to handle any size order. We specialize in contemporary and better goods and are known for workmanship, quality control, and on-time turnaround. Call (323) 581-8555, e-mailinfo@cottongeneration.com or visit www.cottongeneration.com. Within the Dallas Market Center marketplace of more than 5 million square feet, retailers from around the globe can shop apparel and accessories for men, women, and children, specialty categories of bridal, special occasion, prom, quinceantilde;era and Western, home furnishings, gifts, decorative accessories, gourmet, lighting, textiles, floral, seasonal deacute;cor, and much more. With more than 50 markets each year attended by more than 200,000 retail buyers from all 50 states and 84 countries, Dallas Market Center offers hundreds of events and seminars geared toward helping retailers expand business and increase profits. As a result, more than $8 billion in estimated wholesale transactions are conducted annually within the Dallas Market Center complex. Visit www.dallasmarketcenter.com for more information and market dates and become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dallasmarketcenter. The Fashion Market Northern California has been the premier marketplace in Northern California for 50 years. Fashion Market continues to provide buyers with the most complete shopping experience in the Bay Area. With more than 2,000 ready-to-wear collections, Fashion Market offers the largest open-booth format on the West Coast. Fashion Market is designed and merchandised to meet the needs of ready-to-wear buyers of moderate, better, and bridge collections. Whether you are an established brand, a new line, or an up-and-coming designer, Fashion Market provides an opportunity to showcase your lines five times a year. Market dates are Aug. 28–30 and Oct. 23–26. Visit www.fashionmarketnorcal.com.For over 75 years, MAGIC Marketplace has continued to lead, grow and inspire the business of fashion. This February, a partnership with Footwear News inaugurated the launch of FN PLATFORM, affirming MAGIC’s status as the largest fashion tradeshow in the world, and showcasing all fashion from head to toe. Show dates are Aug. 17-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Visit www.fnplatform.com.Lawson provides an integrated supply-chain solution for apparel, footwear, home textile, and accessories companies, from manufacturing to retail and concept to consumer. It offers product lifecycle management (PLM) and support product design and development, as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) to handle sourcing, distribution, and manufacturing. Lawson Professional Services delivers services in one complete package that includes consulting services, learning services, implementation and upgrade services, packaged services, and application-management services. Visit www.lawson.com.Mancini Duffy stands up to be one of the premier architecture and design firms in the country. The firm has 90 years of experience in a broad range of markets and disciplines, in multiple offices, locally and globally. From architecture and layout analysis to lighting design and customized furnishings, Mancini Duffy’s Retail Group develops selling environments that reinforce what makes its retail clients unique.This team has proven strong planning instincts, special expertise in merchandise circulation, and a profound understanding of consumer psychology and lifestyle trends. Among their clients are Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bliss Spas, and Fontainebleau Resorts. Visit www.manciniduffy.com.NGCreg; announces that shapewear innovator SPANX is implementing NGC’s e-SPSreg; software for PLM and global sourcing. NGC’s software is helping the company increase speed to market and improve organization, collaboration, and communication between designers, factories, and employees. SPANX set out to find a PLM system that could help them efficiently manage not only product design but also purchase orders, production, and shipping; the company ultimately selected NGC out of a dozen vendors. “We needed a system to help speed up development, from concept to production. When we found out that NGC offered integrated PLM and global sourcing, the choice was obvious,” said Robert Hunnicutt, technology product manager, SPANX. Visit www.ngcsoftware.com.The OffPrice Specialist Shows are the premier trade shows for off-price apparel and accessories. Taste of OffPrice will be held Oct. 4–6 at the California Market Center in Los Angeles during LA Majors Market. OffPrice will showcase leading vendors throughout North America delivering the very best values in immediate goods in the following categories: men’s apparel, women’s apparel, children’s apparel, plus sizes, accessories, jewelry, footwear, outerwear, intimate, maternity, scarves, sunglasses, and branded goods.Find the best deals in below-wholesale clothing, below-wholesale footwear and below-wholesale accessories closer to season at A TASTE OF OFF PRICE in LA! Visit www.offpriceshow.com. Since 1988, OptiTex has been the leading developer of 2-D and 3-D solutions for textile, industrial fabrics, apparel, upholstery, transportation, composites, homes furnishings, and other sewn products. OptiTex is making its mark on the global textile industry by providing digital software solutions for state-of-the-art pattern design, runway simulation, and process optimization. OptiTex products are sold and supported around the world through certified distributors and OEMs. OptiTex’s Fashion Design Software solutions are available in more than 20 languages. OptiTex has more than 23,000 installations worldwide, including Volcom, Cherokee Uniforms, Patagonia, Coach Leather, Oxford Industries - Li & Fung, Northrop Grumman, Lane Furniture, Target Coldwater Creek, Tommy Hilfiger, Chico’s, Wal-Mart, and thousands more. Visit www.optitex.com.Silk Culture is a boutique apparel company committed to the production of premium contemporary fashion garments. With over 20 years of experience, we pride ourselves on not sourcing any part of our production elsewhere; thus, we oversee that each garment is produced with the highest standard of quality. Our silk and silk-blended fabrics are truly nature’s gift, adding the luxurious feel, comfort, and durability that other fabrics lack. Our company’s principal is committed to fashion and loves the application of high fashion to our daily lives. We at Silk Culture celebrate the needs and the fashion flair of our customers, whether casual or eveningwear. Be part of our culture—the “Silk Culture.” Visit www.silkculture.com.
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