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China'S Apparel Industry Is Facing Difficulties.

2008/4/7 13:57:00 53

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China'S Apparel Industry Is Hard To Get Through.

　位于上海松江東南部的葉榭鎮之前名聲響亮，去年被中國紡織工業協會確立為紡織產業基地特色城鎮產業集群試點單位之一，更早的時候，它是中國毛衫針織的加工基地。這個雄心勃勃的小鎮試圖引入更多中國以及國際的品牌服裝。迪士尼旗下的米老鼠和維尼小熊、法國夢特嬌、臺灣品牌巧帛、中國春竹集團均成為葉榭鎮招商引資時的招牌。但現在的情況并不如想象的那樣風光。上海巧帛服飾有限公司稱，公司已與葉榭當地的接單伙伴終止業務很久。而上海春竹兒童用品有限公司的特許加盟負責人劉先生也承認，春竹在葉榭當地開設的童裝公司已經停產。

The situation of Ye Xie town can be regarded as a sample of China's local textile and garment industry's current difficulties.

"Compared with 2000, the profit margins are not as good as those at that time."

Mr. Luo, a real trade operator of Shanghai Silk Group Co (hereinafter referred to as silk shares), said that the drop in profits is a common phenomenon in the industry.

Silk shares are the largest garment exporters in China.

The foreign trade experienced salesman also introduced that the main pressure of the textile and garment industry in 2007 came from the appreciation of the renminbi.

"The average time of settlement in the general industry is about 90 days. Large companies like ours can afford to offset some exchange gains and losses by buying forward exchange rates.

But in general, small and medium-sized companies basically do not have such a financial strength.

Cost center shift

　　更大的擔憂也隨之出現。“我上個月去美國，逛了很多GAPSTORE(美國服裝業巨頭，以生產休閑服裝聞名)，我發現他們店中80%的產品都不是貼牌中國制造，而都是來自越南、馬來西亞、韓國等東南亞國家。”PPG中國首席財務官王彥豐說。數家不愿意透露品牌名稱的國際高端服裝公司中國區高層也向本報記者承認，逐步減少在中國的成衣采購，進而轉向越南等地已經列入公司的計劃之中。“中國大部分服裝企業都是生產型企業，沒有一個強大的品牌設計規劃。這也就意味著在外貿產業鏈中，訂單客戶始終是把中國作為一個成本中心。”一位不愿意透露姓名的業內人士說，“當那些沒有品牌的生產型企業缺乏資金規模，同時又沒有應對匯率變化、出口退稅下降的措施，必然也是毫無議價能力的，只有面臨淘汰或重新定位。”

In an analysis report, Wang Rong, an analyst with United Securities, pointed out: "the accelerated appreciation of the renminbi has made structural adjustment in China's textile and clothing export market.

Major export markets for textiles: export growth in Asia and North America has declined to varying degrees, especially in North America.

Europe, Africa and Latin America will become the main growth areas for China's textile exports in the future.

Those insiders who do not want to disclose their names are not too optimistic about the European market. "At present, the euro is still in the appreciation stage, but it does not rule out that the EU may exert pressure this year to make the renminbi stronger, which will still produce pressure on exports."

Direction of pformation

The current plight of the apparel industry has also led some Chinese companies with their own brands to see new business opportunities.

Lining, seven wolves and YOUNGOR have already realized or are ready to pform from the production to the retail terminal.

"According to the rough estimates of the financial statements, the retail sales of retail outlets including Lining and other brands are still not comparable to those of Espirt," Wang Rong said. "But it shows that some leading clothing companies with private brands in China are beginning to gradually reduce production and turn to retail terminals to make profits."

　　包括老牌成衣公司雅戈爾等也正在計劃進入中國全新的服裝直銷領域與新興者一決高下。新興者如中國第一家以網絡直銷形式進入服裝細分市場的網絡零售商PPG，其首席執行官李亮透露，公司目前的毛利率已經可以達到250%。“我們不像傳統的美國直銷公司，利潤并不來自于物流。”李亮說。同樣很興奮的還有王敬。這不僅是因為他所領導的宏夢(上海)卡通實業有限公司(簡稱宏夢卡通)有望在明年初登陸美國納斯達克成為中國卡通概念第一股，更為重要的是，由他和其團隊所推動的虹貓藍兔中國原創卡通形象，在短短兩年時間里以授權模式，吸引了眾多服裝企業成為其合作伙伴。

With the increasing demand for pformation of foreign trade clothing enterprises, clothing enterprises without private brands are also looking for their own way out.

This allows Wang Jing to see the opportunity of the cartoon brand authorization in the Chinese market -- clothing enterprises begin to pursue brand differentiation survival, while Wang Jing can meet this demand.

In the authorized customers of Hong Meng now, the Fujian Sheng Hesheng clothing and Yangzhou Allen Toys Co., Ltd. are all export oriented garment processing enterprises with huge export volume, but their own brand effect is not strong.

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