Like the aviation, tourism, catering, entertainment, and film and television industries, the textile and apparel industry has suffered direct and heavy losses. As a long industrial chain of globalization and a labor-intensive industry, the textile and apparel industry has been severely damaged, making short-term recovery difficult. Bigger and more complex.
The international textile and apparel trade has declined: The epidemic has spread to the world, and the world’s major fashion producers and Market centers have become epidemic areas. The epidemic has triggered a financial earthquake and the global economic downturn has led to a decline in international textile and apparel trade and export orders. Textile production and trading companies have been in trouble.
The industrial chain is blocked, and it will take some time to restart: Textile and clothing is a long industrial chain, and the upstream and downstream industries have conditions and opportunities to start. Different and mutual constraints make it difficult for companies to start operations and it is even more difficult to coordinate the supply chain. This makes the garment industry an industry with low resumption rate and slow normalization.
When you grab a worker, you get money! Guangzhou Garment Area has “difficulty recruiting workers”: there are more bosses than workers!
Originally, many companies will experience labor shortages after the Spring Festival every year. Under this epidemic, the “difficulty in recruiting workers” has become even more protrude. 70% of employees in Guangdong come from other places. Now that work and production are resuming, many garment companies in Guangzhou are facing the problem of “difficulty in recruiting workers.”
This time I interviewed several brands and manufacturers. Some of them have resumed work, while others are still on standby. From these replies, we can have a more three-dimensional and comprehensive observation of the impact of the epidemic on the garment industry and the situation of the participants in each link.
1. A clothing brand in Wuhan
1. If it is normal situation, what is the current work progress of the brand in previous years?
If things go according to normal circumstances, the spring and summer new releases will have been completed in early March, about 7-8 models, and the shooting of outdoor specials will have begun.
2. What is the actual situation now?
Due to the current Wuhan epidemic, we have to cancel the 2020 spring and summer new product sales.
The goods we can currently ship will be shipped by SF Express. We use contactless delivery, so customers can buy with confidence.
3. What trouble did the factory encounter?
Because our factories are all in Wuhan, we cannot start operations due to the epidemic, and there is no accurate time for when we will start operations in the future.
The brand is also in a semi-paralysis state at this stage. I hope that when we release new products again, you can continue to support us and give back to everyone with better customer experience and products.
2. A clothing brand in Wuhan
1. If it is normal situation, what is the current work progress of the brand in previous years?
Under normal circumstances, 80% of our spring and summer styles can basically be put on sale. If there will be several cross-border joint series in the future, they will probably be finalized during this time, and there will also be an offline event planning.
Now due to the impact of the epidemic, work cannot be resumed, resulting in work being unable to be carried out.
2. What is the actual situation now?
In fact, we have finalized the sample review of the 2020ss spring series and the first half of summer styles years ago, and have arranged for the factory to produce large quantities. The first wave of spring and summer lookbooks were put on the shelves a year ago, and I originally planned to start shooting the second wave of spring and summer lookbooks after the year. Due to the impact of the epidemic, work cannot be resumed.
At the end of the month, we will put on sale the second wave of new products in the spring. Then, in terms of company operations, only some employees can serve as online sales and customer service. Some of the people in charge and I will coordinate each We will monitor the progress of the sector and work hard to coordinate some of the best plans so that we can carry out work in an orderly manner with maximum efficiency after resumption of work.
3. What trouble did the factory encounter?
Because our foundry is in Guangdong Province, they will resume work around the end of February. Although it has a big impact, fortunately, it is now able to operate normally.
The delivery date has basically been met through communication to meet the launch of new products. We now hope that Wuhan can quickly pass the application for resumption of work, carry out a small-scale resumption of work plan, and some aspects of the brand can be put into operation quickly.
3. Garment manufacturers in Dongguan and Huizhou, Guangdong (operating factories for 15 years, 10 production lines, 100 workers)
1. Which brands does the factory mainly handle? Most of them are foreign brands, but there are also domestic brands.
2. In normal times in previous years, what should be the work progress now? 100,000-200,000 pieces per month.
3. What is the actual situation now due to the impact of the epidemic? Affected by the epidemic this year, most workers have not returned and cannot fully resume work. And suppliers delayed the start of work, resulting in a lack of material supply.
4. What is the current biggest loss? Order delays and diversion of guest orders.
5. What is the situation with textile raw materials? The textile industry is experiencing difficulties with delivery.
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We don’t need to be overly pessimistic about the future textile market. After all, clothing, as a rigid necessity, will only be delayed but not disappear.
Especially now, although the overseas epidemic has caused widespread cancellation of orders, and it is still difficult for a large number of spot markets, led by the Zhongda Textile Market, to officially fully produce, there is good news. There are quite a few. At present, as low-risk areas such as Jingzhou, Hubei Province are gradually unblocked, people are beginning to return to textile markets in Guangzhou and other places to prepare for the resumption of work and production. All in all, the domestic market is developing in a positive trend, and these orders will still be placed, but the process may be very slow, and textile workers still need to be fully mentally prepared.
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Video: Hubei workers charter a bus back to Guangzhou, People in the garment factory area queued up late into the night to enter the village
Due to the epidemic, the textile and garment industry has been temporarily absent from the opening of the market. China’s largest textile business district (Zhongda Cloth) has only recently decided to resume the market! In fact, from the Zhongda cloth market on the raw material supply side, to the hundreds of thousands of domestic garment factories on the garment production side, to the major clothing wholesale markets on the sales side… Hubei people are everywhere
From the raw material supply side of Zhongda Cloth Market to the production side, there are several urban villages in Lujiang, Kangle, Lijiao and Tuhua in Haizhu District. From the thousands of garment factories to the three major clothing wholesale markets of Shahe, Baima and Shisanhang on the sales side… Hubei people are everywhere.
Previously, a large number of clothing wholesalers in Hubei were unable to return to Guangzhou.
According to statistics, there are 59 professional markets in the Zhongda Cloth Market business district, with a total of about 23,000 merchants and more than 150,000 migrant workers in Guangzhou. The large village is the most concentrated production base of garment factories in the country. It is no exaggeration to say that there are garment villages dotted all over the city. The many garment-making villages here are the most important source production bases of major clothing wholesale cities across the country, and have the effect of influencing the entire textile and clothing industry.
Although the employees in these garment villages come from all over the world, they are mainly dominated by Hubei people. Among them, there are about hundreds of thousands of Hubei residents, concentrated in Kangle and Lujiang. , Ruibao, Wufeng, Shangchong, Datang, Tuhua and other sub-districts and villages. Among them, there are as many as 52,000 Hubei residents from Jingzhou, Xiantao, and Tianmen alone. </p
