Apparel Online India Issue 1-15 March '18 | Page 57

EYES & EARS Scissorfobz to focus more on Indian products Pink Village Trading to start working directly with exporters W P orking as a vendor with Walmart and other retail stores in the US like Hobby Lobby, Michaels and Jo-Ann Stores (Jo-Ann Fabrics), Scissorfobz (a division of Vision Imports, New York) will now focus more on Indian products. The company, doing overall business of nearly US $ 2 million per year, is working with 5 vendors in India on an average basis. Increasing cost in China has motivated the company to focus more on India. Sandy Mehra, VP – Sales & Marketing of the company recently met Team Apparel Online and informed, “It’s my personal initiative to bring some more business to India, so for the next collection that I am presenting to Walmart, I will give them 100 per cent Indian products like fashion accessories and some of the craft items.” He further added that even from India, there Sandy Mehra (R), VP – Sales & Marketing, Scissorfobz with Sushil Aggarwal, MD, Eves Fashion, Delhi is inflation of prices of about 10 per cent while in China it is 20 to 25 per cent. “Costing from India is also increasing but it is comparatively better than China because if China appreciates its RMB by even 1 per cent, cost goes up by 5 per cent,” he added. Currently the company is sourcing 50 per cent from India and rest 50 per cent is from China and Taiwan. ink Village Trading LLC, Dubai, an importer and wholesaler company from Dubai, is planning to work directly with Indian exporters. Sourcing around one million pieces per year (mostly menswear) from India and supplying further to Middle East market,Vinod, MD of the company was recently in India. He shared with Apparel Online that high costing is the only concern with regard to sourcing from India. And for the same, he is trying to avoid whatever mediocre products which are there in the market, as of now. “Despite high costing in India, we are procuring from here just because of easy communication, good quality and smaller quantities. Looking at the current market situation in Dubai, 2018 is expected to remain normal and not much improvement is expected in this year, while 2019 should Vinod (L), MD, Pink Village Trading LLC, Dubai with Rakesh Garg, MD, Worldwide Textiles, Ludhiana Despite high costing in India, we are procuring from here just because of easy communication, good quality and smaller quantities. go  well,” he added. Currently Vinod is working with the apparel exporters of Ludhiana, Jaipur, Delhi and Mumbai. www.apparelresources.com | MARCH 1-15, 2018 | Apparel Online India 57