Wenzhou's Foreign Trade Apparel Enterprises Cluster To High-End Transformation

According to statistics of Wenzhou entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Wenzhou law inspection foreign trade in 1-7 this year. clothing Exports of US $120 million, down 14% compared with the same period last year, and the export situation in Europe and the US market is more severe, with a drop of more than 10%. Under such a big background, Zhejiang fans Xi Shi clothing Ltd., Wenzhou tengxu Clothing Co., Ltd., Wenzhou Diya Clothing Co., Ltd. and other more than 10 foreign trade clothing enterprises have grown against the trend, and the number of fans increased by more than 70% over the same period last year.

Song Yiguo, director of the textile and light Administration Department of Wenzhou entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau, said that at present, there are 123 export enterprises for clothing inspection and quarantine in the inspection and Quarantine Bureau. As of the end of July, the top 30 in export Clothing enterprise Of the 12 enterprises, exports increased rapidly, and 16 enterprises declined significantly. Among them, fans increased by 71% over the same period last year, and tengxu increased by more than 30% over the same period.

Affected by the downturn in international markets such as Europe and America, many foreign trade clothing enterprises in Wenzhou face great challenges over the past two years. However, those enterprises that are in the trend of growth are already working hard to compete with their counterparts in the central and western regions. They are not competing with the Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam.

In the past few years, fan Xi Shi, who started in overseas Chinese trade, has been accepted by ZARA, New Look, Guess and other international brands after rigorous and rigorous scrutiny. Yu Qiangchun, chairman of the company, said that in recent years, the company has invested a lot of energy and financial resources to adjust the management, process, service and other aspects in order to adapt to different brand and different process requirements, and to do well in the service.

Wenzhou Yamin Underwear Co., Ltd., which also has obvious export growth this year, has put a lot of energy into the process improvement and process control of the company. Huang Zhiqing, chairman of the board, said with great relief that this year, the number of employees in the company has been reduced by 20%, and the per capita wages of employees have increased by more than 200%, and the annual output has increased by more than 200%. and Yueqing times dress The limited company directly set up the warehouse in Losangeles, the United States. Customers can place orders and take delivery directly in the warehouse. It only takes 15 days to replenish goods from Yueqing to the United States. Such a fast speed and the cost advantages of the factory directly to the terminal make it popular in the United States. Chen Jianhua, chairman of the company, revealed that because the cost of the intermediate links is almost no, the company can get a substantial profit far higher than its peers.

Wu Yiheng, Secretary General of the Wenzhou clothing trade association's foreign trade branch, said that with the rise of manufacturing industries in Vietnam and Kampuchea, they had a certain impact on the low-end products of China by virtue of the cheap labor force of artificial labor, including Wenzhou's clothing products. However, many enterprises in this process have chosen to transform themselves into high-end products, strengthen product design and R & D, production process control, and do professional services.