Apparel Industry
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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6 statements about Apparel Industry, every show
Shivakumar: Faster-Drying Fabrics Are a Key Unmet Need in Sarees
“One of the biggest unmet needs for poor women on sarees is faster drying sarees. Because a number of those sarees are polyester sarees. They wash it. They want it to dry fast.”
Daymond John: Apparel brands make almost no profit outside jeans and t-shirts
“Clothing makes almost zero money off of anything else besides jeans and t-shirts.”
Senada Greca: Production volume costs make small apparel brands a brutal business
“It's a tough business, especially for a small brand when you're trying to compete with larger brands that can produce tons of units at super low cost, and here you are, you know, producing a fraction at a higher cost, so then you have to pass that on to the co…”
Universal Standard blended manufacturing costs by making size 18 its medium
“The average woman in America is a size 18, so that should be our medium, and we would then manufacture clothing up and down from that, and then making that size 18 our medium, we were able to blend our costs from the very beginning.”
Boujarwah: Global apparel industry is larger than the automotive industry
“It is bigger than the automotive industry and many entertainment industries.”
Advani: D2C apparel commands higher gross margins within 30% to 60% range
“I'd say anywhere between 30 and 60% is a good guess. It depends on the model. So you'll, you'll tend to see lower numbers when you look at companies who have a bigger B to B business. Where they don't sell direct to the consumer versus companies who sell direc…”