Experience in this industry is not measured in years alone. It is measured in the problems you have already solved before the buyer ever sees them.
Leadership experience across merchandising, sourcing and apparel supply-chain management.
Serving buyers across the USA, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia.
From knitwear and denim to outerwear, activewear and technical workwear.
From product concept and development through production, quality and delivery.
Running seasonal calendars against real factory constraints — fabric booking, lab dips, fit sets, PP approval and shipment windows — and knowing which dates can move and which cannot.
Sourcing and developing knits, wovens, denim and performance fabrics; matching construction, weight, shrinkage and handfeel to the buyer’s specification and price point.
Reading a cost sheet line by line — consumption, wastage, CM, trims and finishing — and finding the commercial route that protects both margin and product integrity.
Working on the floor with production teams through PP meetings, inline checks, and final inspection against AQL — catching problems while they are still cheap to fix.
Preparing factories for social, environmental and technical audits, and managing corrective action plans through to closure.
Shipping documentation, inspection certificates, and coordination with forwarders so the goods and the paperwork arrive together.
Anyone can send an enquiry to twenty factories. The value is in knowing which five are actually right, which two will hold the price at bulk, and which one has the machinery for your specific construction.
That judgement comes from having sat on both sides of the process — the buyer’s expectations and the factory’s realities — for more than two decades.
It is also what allows us to say no. If a target price or a delivery date is not achievable at the required quality, we will say so during quotation rather than during shipment.
An experienced sourcing team does not just find a supplier. It knows, before the first sample is cut, where this programme is most likely to go wrong — and designs that risk out.CrestTex Leadership
Share your product and we will tell you honestly what is achievable, and where.
