Hangzhou: &Nbsp Affected By Hurricane Force Cotton Price; Cotton Underwear Price Increases 20%

In this madness

Yesterday, reporters visited some textile enterprises in Hangzhou, Sijiqing clothing wholesale market and Sijiqing fabric market and other specialized wholesale markets, and found that this winter winter cotton fabric and clothing rose, autumn and winter cotton wear has begun to rise in price, or at least 20%, and may rise further.

Consumers may spend more money on clothes this winter.

"A", cotton clothing and clothing, 20% wholesalers make a running cost.

Yesterday morning, Ms. Huang, a young mother, bought clothes for his son at a brand baby clothing store in the wholesale market of Sijiqing children's clothing. It found that the same brand of children's pure cotton underwear has risen from 35 yuan last year to 45 yuan.

After bargaining for half a day, he finally bought four sets of 42 yuan. He said, "buy more than two sets. If it is to go up again, it will be even more worthless."

"A cotton material jacket, the factory ex factory price increased by 10 yuan / piece, no increase in price, no money at all, I can not help."

In the clothing wholesale market of Sijiqing, Ms. Zhou, a brand clothing wholesaler, is explaining to customers.

She told reporters that in recent months, the price of cotton clothing has increased by 10% to 20%.

The price of clothing has gone up, and sales have dropped.

A brand of women's clothing

At the same time, she said that most of the clothes made now are already ordered in the summer, so the recent rapid rise in cotton prices has not been fully reflected, and the price of cotton clothing produced by the end of the year will probably go up even more.

This year, the price of clothing is much higher and faster. In the face of the expectation of price increase, wholesalers and agents are very entangled.

Not only wholesalers are entangled, but clothing manufacturers are also entangled in the question of cost rise and price adjustment.

Looking at the production of cotton pants in winter, the price of cotton cloth has risen from 12 yuan / meter to 15 yuan / meter. Mr. Ye, manager of Huzhou Jiji bear children's Clothing Co., Ltd. is still saving tens of thousands of meters of cloth before the celebration. Otherwise, the cost of production this year is not too small. How can we adjust the price now?

"The price is still not intended to increase temporarily. If the price adjustment of children's clothing is too obvious, it may directly affect some distributors and wholesalers. Now the competition is so fierce that the price adjustment is too sensitive."

She said that if other manufacturers raise their prices, she will definitely raise them.

For the thermal underwear with a large demand for cotton, the fluctuation of cotton price has an obvious impact on the cost.

Chen Yunqiang, the owner of Yiwu dun dun dress, brought up the traditional underwear brand "Yu Zhaolin" of Shanghai in April this year. I never expected that cotton prices would go up soon after the meeting.

"A lot of warm underwear brands have been rising this year, but after considering, we are not ready to raise prices."

Chen Yunqiang said, enterprises also have ways to digest costs, do not want to shift more to distributors and consumers.

B "cloth prices rise, sellers earn money, no money.

Compared with the bustling scene in the clothing market, Hangzhou Sijiqing fabric wholesale market is obviously a lot of cold and cheerless.

Yesterday, in the two district of Hangzhou Sijiqing fabric wholesale market, many shopkeepers engaged in cotton cloth business were chatting or playing online games to kill time.

Although the wholesale price of cotton cloth keeps going upwards, there is an average daily price increase of 5% per meter in the first three days of October.

But many shop owners here tell reporters that they do not make money, and this year's business is particularly difficult to make.

"Today, one meter cloth is not sold. The price is rising too fast and too high. No one is coming."

A wholesaler Mr. Wu told reporters that after the price rise, many downstream garment processing enterprises customers choose to wait and see, call to ask the price is much, the number of people who buy cloth at home is few, originally profit margins thin business, it is very difficult to do.

Zhang Peisheng, head of Jifeng textile industry, also said that thousands of cotton fabrics were hung in his shop, which could sell tens of thousands of rice cloth every month, but the wholesale price could only be increased with the production enterprises, with no increase in profits and low profits.

For cotton spinning enterprises that account for more than 50% of the cost of cotton, the soaring price of cotton will force the profits of enterprises to enter a difficult "walking wire" era.

Industry analysts pointed out that cotton prices rose 1% per cent, the gross profit margin of enterprises will drop by 0.53%.

Hangzhou Yongxiang Textile Co., Ltd. is a perennial cotton spinning company. According to general manager Suo Zhengxi, cotton accounts for 75% of the total cost of the enterprise. The continuous rise in prices of cotton makes their enterprises feel tremendous pressure.

The business has been hoarding low price cotton at 14000 yuan per ton last year and 2000 tons of cotton in stock, and the business can still be maintained until the end of the year.

But once the inventory is used up, only the new cotton which reaches up to 25000 yuan per ton will be lost immediately.

This situation is forcing a large number of cotton enterprises to increase the factory's price, and the rising prices of upstream products make the downstream dealers feel tremendous pressure.

Reporters learned that in the past three months, Hangzhou Sijiqing fabric wholesale market cotton cloth rose fiercely.

Take cotton fabric as an example: wholesale price was 36 yuan / kg in August, 38 yuan / kg in September, and wholesale price reached 42 yuan / kg in October.

"C", the shop overloaded half a year's shirts were all decided to go.

Similarly, the rising price of cotton, the "butterfly wing", has also affected e-commerce.

Zhu Feng, who was doing the shirt business in Taobao, was worried about the poor sales of shirts for some time ago, but now he began to worry about finding cheap goods.

Almost overnight, the more than 5000 long sleeved shirts of Zhu Feng shop's half year's overstock were all decided to leave. The buyer was a new owner of clothing city in Jiaxing, paying 200 thousand yuan.

Zhu Feng's former source mainly came from a garment factory in Zhuji, but recently the factory suddenly shut down.

Zhu Feng turned to the wholesale clothing market in Sijiqing and found that the price of clothing has been a big cut from last year.

"A pure cotton thick long sleeved shirt, last year's wholesale price of goods is also in 50 yuan a piece, the wholesale price has recently reported more than 70 yuan, too fast."

The price war on the Internet is also fierce. Zhu Feng intends to take a break to see if he can do other business.