Second Hand Clothing Sold To Africa, Making A Profit.

Every year, people buy new clothes. In 2018, they sold 54 billion 60 million pieces of clothing nationwide.

But few people pay attention to old clothes, new clothes to buy and buy, how to deal with the old clothes?

　 01 clothes will never be too much.

In rural areas, clothing generally has a life expectancy of 3-4 years, especially for many middle-aged and elderly people.

In cities and towns, clothing generally has a life expectancy of 1-2 years, which is even shorter for young people. But many old clothes are either discarded or stacked in the closet.

According to the leisure fish data, the idle old clothes produced by ordinary families in China amount to 60 Jin a year.

Today, when women wear clothes and wear, women buy at least 2 clothes per month, and fashion clothes only stay for one season. 80% of the clothing will be forgotten after the season, but it will increase the number of clothes purchased at the rate of 15% per year.

Men are less motivated to buy clothes and buy them on an average monthly basis. But they will not give away their old clothes and seldom throw away their old clothes.

　 02 lost in half a year to Daqing Oilfield

Statistics show that in China, an average of 10 new clothes will be purchased each year, of which 3-5 will be discarded. The annual discarded clothes are less than 1% at 26 million -2800 tons, which is a huge waste.

Some people know that an important raw material of clothing fiber is crude oil, which is equivalent to discarding 24 million tons of crude oil every year, more than half of the output of Daqing oilfield.

At present, the treatment of old clothes is mainly in the following 4 ways:

A, public donations

Many public organizations or organizations will collect old clothes on the Internet, send them to the poor mountainous areas in the Midwest of China regularly, or donate to local needy people through charitable organizations.

In addition, there are some old clothes recycling boxes in many second tier cities. Some of these bins are jointly owned by government and enterprises, and some of them will be used for charitable donations after sorting out some clothes.

However, due to information asymmetry, there are many public welfare institutions or poor schools, and old clothes are almost unavailable.

The first batch has not yet been processed, and the second batch is coming again. In some departments, the collection of old clothes collected in 2009 is still overloaded with more than ten thousand items.

Moreover, the cost of old clothes donation is very high. From the recycling, sorting, disinfection, cleaning, packaging, distribution and other links, the cost of an old clothing donation is about 12-15 yuan.

B, selling or sending people

More than 500 thousand old clothes were sold on casual fish every month, of which 95 were the main force, accounting for 34%.

95 young people are willing not only to buy old clothes, but also to accept old clothes, and 30% of their old clothes are donated into the sac after 95.

Of course, women will have higher willingness to deal with second-hand clothing than 4 times that of men.

C, reprocessing

Whether it's a personal trader or an institution, most of the old clothes will be recovered and sorted by the recycling plant.

Old clothes that cannot be sold for two times but are not used for burning.

After being sorted, they can be sold to the downstream suppliers for recycling. They are made into greenhouse thermal insulation cotton, environmental protection gloves, environmental protection bags, sound insulation cotton, building materials, etc.

D, resale

Either way, the economic benefits are not the most significant.

For businessmen who specialize in the recycling of old clothes, 9 of the new clothes will be sorted out and sold for two times before making money.

At present, most of the family living conditions in China have been significantly improved, and most of them will not buy old clothes.

Because in China, buying clothes is very convenient, cheap, and more styles, and very few old clothes flow into the local market.

Where have these two huge quantities of old clothes been sold?

The answer is Africa! Yes, Africa, and it's very profitable.

For example, in March 2018, leisure fish carried out the old clothes recycling plan. By the end of this year, a total of 8438 tons, about 40 million clothes. 45% of the clothing goes to undeveloped countries such as Africa.

　 03 why Africa needs

There are several other reasons for the second-hand clothing trade in Africa, except for historical reasons.

A, new fashions: domestic clothes are fashionable and fashionable, and they update quickly. Some new clothes only need half a month from design to listing. African people also love beauty and fashion. Old clothes have many styles, many brands, and they can be more selective.

B: good quality: although some African countries began to develop their textile industry decades ago, it is definitely not comparable with China, a big manufacturing country. Almost all the famous brand clothes in the world are OEM in China.

Therefore, even the second-hand clothing that has been worn is much better in quality than the local clothing in Africa. Of course, this has something to do with the recycling company when sorting, many clothes are new.

C, the price is cheap: second-hand clothing prices are only about 35% of the price of new clothes, for example, a brand new short sleeved price is 7.5 dollars, while the second-hand second-hand short sleeves price is 2.8 dollars. Such a clear price gap makes it possible for most poor Africans to refuse.

04 make money in Africa

Then how can we pick up old clothes that are picked and returned and sell them to Africa?

Guangzhou is the largest second-hand clothing distribution center. It has a mature industrial chain from acquisition, sorting, disinfection, cleaning, packing and shipment.

A: interest chain

In Guangzhou, thousands of second-hand clothing vendors are active in every district in Guangzhou, mostly Henan and Anhui.

Every day riding a tricycle, crying out, selling old clothes.

Bra 2.5 yuan / Jin, belt 0.5 yuan / Jin, clothes 1.5 yuan / Jin, jeans, leather bags, shoes are collected by the piece.

Collect and return to your storage point, then pick it up and sell it to the recycle bin.

But these vendors are at the end of the entire supply chain, and they can only earn hardworking fees.

From second-hand clothes traders - recycle bin / transfer station - recycling company / factory wholesale market - retail market, which is the circulation link of the second-hand clothes.

Among them, there are thousands of companies engaged in second-hand clothes recycling in the whole country, and there are hundreds of them in Guangzhou alone.

In addition to peddlers, old clothes can be successfully exported to Africa and other places. In the whole interest chain, some people are specially responsible for customs clearance of goods, and there are also overseas importing countries.

Generally, the cost of a container is at least tens of thousands. Many companies can produce more than a dozen each week, and a cabinet can only cost thousands of dollars for customs clearance. Africa also provides a smooth customs clearance service, which costs only 7 or 8 thousand dollars at a time, including tariff.

B, market quotation

Why is it so popular that the two sale of old clothes is mainly due to the large profit margins.

Whether the old clothes are sold directly or to the power plants and raw materials factories, the final profits are very low.

When the secondhand peddlers purchase in the District, the general price is 0.4 yuan -1.6 yuan / Jin. Sold to the recycle bin can sell more than 2 yuan per kilogram, and after picking through the factory, it can sell 6-8 yuan per catty.

General merchandise: refers to those that are not sorted and sorted, such as bags, short sleeves, sweaters, cotton clothes, etc.

The price of general merchandise is relatively low, and the price varies from place to place, but eventually it flows to Guangzhou.

Case goods (boutique goods): after sorting, the color of the clothes is very good, without obvious stains and breakage.

Many clothes may be worn only once, not even the tag.

The prices of such goods are naturally higher, and the average traders can recycle more than 2 yuan.

Summer wear: because of climate reasons, summer wear in Africa is more popular and popular.

Therefore, the purchase price of summer clothing is even higher than that of winter clothes such as cotton clothes, even 10 times the difference.

C, sold to Africa.

At present, more than 100 million second-hand clothes are sold from Guangzhou to Africa every year, at least billions of years.

However, China did not seize the opportunity in the old clothes market in Africa. The old clothes exported by the United States were the largest in Africa, occupying over 70% of the market share, followed by countries such as Japan and South Korea.

With the growing maturity of African wholesalers, many African local acquisition companies regularly come to Guangzhou to pick up goods and even have offices in Guangzhou.

Some African purchasers have been engaged in second-hand clothing for tens of millions of millions.

Because according to the piecework, many clothes and one piece of the purchase price is less than one yuan, but the selling price has at least ten fold.

After buying and selling clothing in African countries, they will concentrate on large and small meters, which is the local second-hand clothing market.

Secondhand clothing is very popular in the African market because of its low price and fashionable style. Jeans, bra, T-shirt and shoes are most popular.

In countries like Uganda, second-hand clothing accounts for 7 of the clothing trade. Over the past 20 years, the growth rate of second-hand clothing imports in Uganda and Tanzania was 233% and 1100% respectively.

　 05 thinking about entrepreneurs

China's clothing market is huge. In 2018, the sales volume of China's clothing market exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and clothing accounted for half of the annual sales volume of many electronic business platforms. This also leads to the same huge second-hand clothing market. The relevant data show that more than 200 billion second-hand clothing market in China is waiting to be excavated every year.

A, no layman.

Although the second-hand clothing market is so alluring, especially the so-called African market. But I think this is a traditional market. For many young entrepreneurs, it's hard to get into the market.

Like garbage recycling now, it is a hard work and a heavy asset, heavy experience, heavy resources and heavy relationship.

How to deal with traditional traders, how to compete with second-hand clothes recycling factories, how to deal with the relationship between government and so on.

So, if you are a layman, don't easily dream of making money in the second-hand clothes market in Africa.

Despite the fact that second-hand clothing has a single or traditional way of recycling, it is even opaque and has low user participation. There is room for improvement, but still be careful.

Of course, there are also domestic flying ants, white whale and other entrepreneurial platforms, trying to explore.

B, new clothing market

Also in 2018, there were many new clothing clearance platforms, such as love stock, good clothes store, big clearance warehouse and so on.

If it is in the domestic perspective, from the perspective of clothing shoes package, I think the high-end second-hand clothing shoes package market has great opportunities, it is worth starting a business to pay attention to and research.

If I am abroad, I am thinking. Is it possible for the future cargo clearance to have the same opportunity in Africa or in Southeast Asia?

At present, there are many electricity suppliers in Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East, especially in Hangzhou, whose business is not bad.

Then, making use of China's manufacturing advantages to make brand tail goods or industrial belt brand clearance in these areas, is there any opportunity to think about or join the local e-commerce platform?

Only thinking and conjecture are welcome.

In view of the great opportunities for Africa to rise, I saw several news recently. At present, many domestic start-up companies have begun to open up African markets and even put forward the slogan of winning in Africa.

Then I will write a special story about the new venture of China and start a business in Africa.